MANNY PACQUIAO trained with his son Emmanuel Jr as the boxing legend self isolates amid the coronavirus pandemic.
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Manny Pacquiao trained with his son Emmanuel Jr as the boxing legend self isolates amid the coronavirus pandemic
Pacquiao last year began to train his 18-year-old son Jimuel
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And eight-division champion PacMan took the opportunity to train his 18-year-old son – who is known as Jimuel – as they shared footage working on the pads together.
Pacquiao last year began to train his son – despite his sobbing wife’s desperate pleas to keep their child away from the ring.
Jimuel won his first amateur bout last April by knockout, but just five months later he suffered his first defeat in six bouts by a 15-year-old who he admitted was more experienced.
He told Manila Times: “I will continue boxing. I want to become a world champion and to turn pro.
“I’ve been boxing for only three months.”
Despite father Manny Sr urging his son to stay away from the ring, Jimuel said like his father, boxing is his passion.
Pacquiao recalled: “It pains me that he is boxing because I know how hard it is.
“I told him, ‘Daddy only went into boxing because of poverty – you don’t need to box.
“[Jimuel] said, ‘Daddy, like you boxing is my passion also. I want to be a representative of this country as an athlete’.
“His mummy had cried several times telling him, ‘Don’t go into boxing, son’. [But] he really wants to do it.”
Source: Boxing - thesun.co.uk
