{"id":21313,"date":"2021-09-29T11:02:48","date_gmt":"2021-09-29T11:02:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/?p=21313"},"modified":"2021-09-29T11:03:00","modified_gmt":"2021-09-29T11:03:00","slug":"boxer-manny-pacquiao-has-confirmed-that-he-is-leaving-boxing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/?p=21313","title":{"rendered":"Boxer Manny Pacquiao Has Confirmed That He Is Leaving Boxing"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Boxing star Manny Pacquiao, who plans to run for president in the Philippine elections in 2022, said he was leaving boxing to focus on the most important fight in his political career.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Kyiv. Ukraine. Ukraine Gate \u2013 September 29, 2021 \u2013 Sport<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Yes, Pacquiao, a Philippine senator who divided his time between politics and the struggle, made this statement in a 14-minute video posted on his official Facebook page.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;I just heard the last call. Boxing is over. I never thought the day would come when I would hang boxing gloves, \u201dPacquiao was quoted as saying by Reuters.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Boxer Manny Pacquiao has been nominated as a candidate for president of the Philippines in the 2022 elections.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Manny Pacquiao has repeatedly been named the best boxer in the world according to authoritative publications. During his boxing career, he defended the championship 16 times.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">To the greatest fans and the greatest sport in the world, thank you! Thank you for all the wonderful memories. This is the hardest decision I\u2019ve ever made, but I\u2019m at peace with it. Chase your dreams, work hard, and watch what happens. Good bye boxing. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Bde4wO82sA\">https:\/\/t.co\/Bde4wO82sA<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Manny Pacquiao (@MannyPacquiao) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MannyPacquiao\/status\/1443063035627651078?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">September 29, 2021<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Source: Ukrgate<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Read also: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/?p=20751\" data-type=\"post\" data-id=\"20751\">Shanghai Prepares for Typhoon: Closed Schools, Canceled Flights, and Trains<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Boxing star Manny Pacquiao, who plans to run for president in the Philippine elections in 2022, said he was leaving boxing to focus on the most important fight in his political career. Kyiv. Ukraine. Ukraine Gate \u2013 September 29, 2021 \u2013 Sport Yes, Pacquiao, a Philippine senator who divided his time between politics and the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":21314,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[156,2080,9141,9140,744,9139,2399],"class_list":["post-21313","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sport","tag-boxing","tag-elections","tag-manny-pacquiao","tag-philippines","tag-president","tag-sport-news","tag-ukraine-gate"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21313","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=21313"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21313\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21315,"href":"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21313\/revisions\/21315"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/21314"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21313"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21313"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21313"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}