{"id":3960,"date":"2015-10-04T16:57:08","date_gmt":"2015-10-04T16:57:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/?p=3960"},"modified":"2015-10-04T16:57:08","modified_gmt":"2015-10-04T16:57:08","slug":"pacquiao-to-hang-gloves-in-2016-wants-to-be-senator","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/?p=3960","title":{"rendered":"Pacquiao to hang gloves in 2016; wants to be senator"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Manny Pacquiao will retire from boxing next year but will have one last fight before hanging up the gloves for good, promoter Bob Arum has revealed.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Speaking on TMZ on Wednesday (AEST),\u00a0Arum\u00a0said\u00a0the eight-weight world champion is nearing a career in politics but wants one final hurrah in the ring.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;He&#8217;s gonna fight again next year but his goal is to become a senator in the Philippines, which he will be next year, and then to be president,&#8221;\u00a0Arum said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I think Manny will retire once he&#8217;s elected to the Senate of the Philippines which is next year&#8230; he&#8217;s gonna hang up the gloves.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Pacquiao, 36, said in May he would make an &#8216;announcement for continuing my career or announcement for retirement&#8217;\u00a0once his shoulder injury healed.<\/p>\n<p>He has twice been elected to Congress in the Philippines, but still seems to have the itch for the ring saying he wants a rematch against Floyd Mayweather Jr. next year.<\/p>\n<p>A final fight against Mayweather, who defeated Pacquiao in a unanimous decision in the richest fight in boxing history back last May, would be a fitting way for the Filipino fighter to end his career, especially if he manages to beat the currently undefeated Mayweather.<\/p>\n<p>However, he may not get that chance. Mayweather has said numerous times that his Sept. 12 bout against Andre Berto would be his last.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Manny Pacquiao will retire from boxing next year but will have one last fight before hanging up the gloves for good, promoter Bob Arum has revealed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[65],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3960"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3960"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3960\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3960"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3960"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3960"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}