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Manny Pacquiao hopes his farewell fight against Timothy Bradley will help bolster his Senate bid

Filipino legend says he would ‘let the Philippines people decide’ if he would take Floyd Mayweather up on the offer of a rematch

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Filipino boxing icon Manny Pacquiao says he is hanging up his gloves to ‘focus on my other big responsibility in my daily life, to help the people’ after his final fight against Timothy Bradley. Photo: EPA
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Filipino Manny Pacquiao insists his upcoming title bout against Timothy Bradley will be the last of his prodigious career and on Thursday said he is aiming for a convincing win to help bolster his campaign for a Senate seat.

After this I’m going to retire and hang up my gloves and focus on my other big responsibility in my daily life, to help the people
Manny Pacquiao
Pacquiao, who has a 57-6-2 record and won world titles in eight different weight classes in a 20-year career, is set to battle Bradley in Las Vegas on April 9 for the American’s WBO welterweight championship.
Pacquiao is idolised in his home country and in July last year he met Mary Jane Veloso, a Philippine death row inmate, who had been set to face a firing squad with several other foreign drug convicts but was granted an 11th hour reprieve. Photo: AFP
Pacquiao is idolised in his home country and in July last year he met Mary Jane Veloso, a Philippine death row inmate, who had been set to face a firing squad with several other foreign drug convicts but was granted an 11th hour reprieve. Photo: AFP

“This is my last fight,” Pacquiao, 37, told a Madison Square Garden news conference on Thursday. “After this I’m going to retire and hang up my gloves and focus on my other big responsibility in my daily life, to help the people.”

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Pacquiao is a congressman in the Philippines but is hoping to secure a Senate seat in the May 9 election back home.

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But first comes a boxing rubber match.

Bradley, 32, controversially beat Pacquiao when they first met in 2012 but the southpaw gained revenge in a 2014 rematch, scoring a unanimous decision win to regain the WBO welterweight title.

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The American, now working with trainer Teddy Atlas, knocked out Brandon Rios in the ninth round of his last bout.

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