UPDATE: Manny Pacquiao has decided to enter a different sort of ring. The boxing legend will now run for president of the Philippines.Pacquiao, already a senator in his native land, will mount a campaign to take over when current President Rodrigo Duterte’s term is over in June 2022.
Pacquiao’s announcement comes less than a month after losing a fight to Yordenis Ugas in which he was heavily favored.The 42-year-old Pacquiao accepted the nomination for president during the national assembly of the PDP-Laban Party.“I am a fighter, and I will always be a fighter inside and outside the ring,’ Pacquiao said in a live-streamed speech during the assembly. ‘I am accepting your nomination as candidate for president of the Republic of the
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