The Fight of Manny Pacquiao’s Life

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🗓️ 20 August 2021

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Summary

There are few, if any, boxers in history with the resume of Manny Pacquiao. Inside the ring, he has won twelve major titles across EIGHT different weight classes. Outside the ring, he has been elected first, to the House of Representatives, and later, to the Senate back home in the Philippines. And now, Pacquiao appears to be gearing up to run for president of the Philippines. It’s a move that would put him in direct conflict with the current president Rodrigo Duterte, a leader whose autocratic tendencies suggest he is not afraid to fight dirty...and have left some in Pacquiao’s camp concerned for Manny’s safety, as well as their own. With Pacquiao taking the ring tomorrow night, perhaps the final time in his storied career, Tim Keown joins the show to discuss how Pacquaio’s latest fight, the fight for the highest office in the Philippines, will be his most challenging yet. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Tim Kewan, you just spent time with one of the biggest athletes on planet Earth. What did you see?
0:14.0	What I saw in Los Angeles is in the buildup to what is potentially the final fight of
0:20.1	Mani Pachial'sied career was in many ways similar
0:24.6	to every other buildup to every other big Manny Pachial fight.
0:28.6	Tim Kewen is a senior writer for ESPN.
0:32.6	The routine was the same, his training was the same. The schedule was the same.
0:44.3	He still eats chicken and rice for breakfast every morning and gets teased for it.
0:51.3	People are still gathering around him, whether it be at Griffith Park where he does his workouts in the morning in a parking lot, or at his home where people come
0:57.0	to pay their respects to him and what he has meant to them in their lives and how important
1:04.0	he is as a figure in Philippine culture. But in many other ways, this was a vastly different experience. This fight for
1:15.2	Manny Pachiao is a transition of sorts. He will be moving on to a much, perhaps more dangerous
1:26.6	sport, if you will, in Philippine politics.
1:31.2	There is a certain element of unease and uncertainty surrounding him, and it's because the title
1:38.3	he will soon be vying for, it's President of the Philippines.
2:05.8	And his opponent, Rodrigo Duterte is unlike any other he has ever faced a man who plays by his own set of rules There has never been an athlete like Manny Pacquiao.
2:11.4	There has never been someone who might be the greatest pound-for-pound fighter of all time,
2:16.4	winning 12 major titles across eight different weight classes.
2:20.2	Who's also won a seat in the House of Representatives and then the Senate of his home country with an eye on the presidency up next.
2:28.2	So today, before maybe the last bout in his unparalleled boxing career, we dive deep into Manny Pachiao's most
2:37.4	dramatic fight, with nothing less than his life and the Philippines itself hanging in the
2:45.2	balance. I'm Pablo Torre. It's Friday, August 20th. This is ESPN Daily, brought to you by Goodyear,
2:55.7	helping you discover the road ahead. Good Year. More driven. Tim Cune, I am legitimately excited and a little
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