Pacquiao has made history in boxing when he won world boxing titles in eight different weight classes while sitting as congressman of the lone district of Sarangani Province in Southern Philippines. Up to this day no one boxer has broken that record in boxing history.
Pacquiao has been mixing politics with boxing and so far he’s been successful. If he stays active in boxing for the next five years, Pacquiao could be the first boxer to win another world title as a sitting Vice-President or president of a democratic country.
Pacquiao is likely to run as vice-president or president of the Philippines in the 2022 presidential election. By then, Pacquiao would be over the qualifying age of 40 years old for the the two highest elected positions in the land. However there is no certainty if Pacquiao would still be active in boxing by 2022.
Pacquiao suffered a sharp downturn in his boxing career when he was knocked out by Juan Manuel Marquez in 2012. Pacquiao quickly recovered from the Marquez loss by winning three successive fights but none of them came via knockout.
His dwindling popularity got the needed boost when he bagged a fight against Floyd Mayweather last year but his drawing power had gone down further after his loss to Mayweather.
Pacquiao’s trainer Freddie Roach argued that his loss to Mayweather was largely caused by Pacquiao”s recurring shoulder injury. Right after the Mayweather fight, Pacquiao had a successful surgery and has since recovered with his test fight against Timothy Bradley.
Using Pacquiao’s impressive performance over Bradley as gauge for his succeeding fights, Roach is confident Pacquiao will perform even better than what he did in the last Bradley fight. Read more.
With Pacquiao’s power and speed coming back following his successful surgery, Roach is predicting a knockout win over Vargas on Nov. 5.
