A potential mega fight between Manny Pacquiao and Floyd Mayweather Jr appears unlikely to ever take place after the Filipino’s trainer Freddie Roach revealed his charge is set for retirement in favour of his new political role.
The five-weight world champion won a seat in the Philippine Congress in May and, despite an impending fight with Antonio Margarito, Roach admitted his fighter is losing his hunger.
“We are going to lose Manny Pacquiao to politics, for sure,” Roach told BBC World Service. “After the first couple of days of training Manny came up to me and said ‘I miss my job’, and I said ‘you’re at your job’, and he said ‘no, I miss Congress’.”
Pacquiao takes on the hard-hitting Margarito for the vacant WBC light-middleweight crown in Dallas on November 13 and Roach is concerned ahead of the bout.
