Boxing ‘Pacquiao will retire in 2013’

LONDON: Manny Pacquiao’s promoter Bob Arum admits that he is concerned by the Filipino’s recent comments ahead of his June battle with Timothy Bradley. WBO welterweight champion Pacquiao said earlier this week that he ‘will not stay long in boxing’. “I am worried a bit because these are the things you don’t say when preparing for a fight,” Arum told the Manila Bulletin. “He will retire in 2013.” Arum is understood to have planned at least three more bouts for Pacquiao before he does hang up his gloves.

Published in The Express Tribune, March 23^rd, 2012.