Pacquiao?s Political Plans
By Eddie Alinea
PhilBoxing.com
Thu, 08 Sep 2011
Most boxers, even the best of them like Muhammad Ali and Sugar Ray Robinson, hung up their fighting gloves not for reason that they wanted to but because they can no longer climb the square ring and bang bodies with opponents.
Not Manny Pacquiao, the reigning World Boxing Organization welterweight champion and acclaimed as the best in this era.
The now 32-year-old Congressman of Sarangani Province Tuesday (Wednesday in Manila) during the second leg of the press tour to promote his coming third fight with Mexican Manuel Marquez hinted that his millions of fans will see the last of him by the end of next year.
?Not long,? was Pacquiao?s answer to the question as to how long he would still be fighting, a statement that reafirmed the same sentiment he told this writer in his home base General Santos City in an interview on the eve of his 32nd birthday
?Marami na akong nagawa sa sarili ko at sa bayan at mga kababayan natin at narrating ko na ang tuktok ng pagiging boksingero,? he said then. ?Gusto ko naming makapaglingkod bilang isang public servant, government servant.?
?Siguro dalawa o tatlong laban na lang,? he said. That was after mauling Antonio Margarito in November last year and before doing the same to Shane Mosley May this year.
And if promoter Bob Arum will have his way, indeed, Pacquiao might be expanding his political horizon after the fall of next year from Congress to the Executive Department.
Plans according to the near-80-year-old Harvard University law graduate is to arrange a fight for his ward this coming spring and in November 2012. That is after completing his trilogy with Mexican arch-rival Marquez this coming November.
Even his stay as member of the Lower House of Congress won?t last long as he added: ?By 2013, can become Governor (of Sarangani), yes.?
Why, he even indicated his desire to continue his political aspiration to the presidency.
"President?...You never know," Pacquiao said with a wide smile.
"Being in Congress does not require so much work," Pacquiao told his audience during the press conference. "Not so much hard work, anyway. That is legislative but, in the executive side...if you are a mayor or a governor then you have (to work) seven days a week, 24 hours a day. On that side, you have so much more work to do.?
As to his many-time aborted super fight with undefeated Floyd Mayweather Jr., the Pacman saids that while millions of fans want this fight to happen, he can?t do anything if the American doesn?t want to fight.
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