MANNY PACQUIAO HANGS UP HIS BOXING GLOVES: WILL RUN FOR PRESIDENT IN 2022.

"To the greatest fans and the greatest sport in the world, thank you! Thank you for all the wonderful memories. This is the hardest decision I've ever made, but I'm at peace with it. Chase your dreams, work hard, and watch what happens. Goodbye boxing. To the boxing fans all over the world, thank you very much. Thank you for always praying for me and watching my fights through the years. I would like to thank the whole world, especially the Filipino people, for supporting Manny Pacquiao. Goodbye boxing. It is difficult for me to accept that my time as a boxer is over. Today, I am announcing my retirement." - Manny Pacquiao.

ICHEOKU says with those words, he signed off from the ring and gloves, and will now squarely dedicate himself to politics. He gave it his all and he had much to show for it. He dared dream of greatness and was handsomely rewarded. A storied 26-years boxing career that saw him battle 72-fights, winning 62, lost 8 and drew 2. It is also instructive that 39 of his wins were by knockouts. He won 12 world titles and is the only fighter in history to win titles in eight different weight classes. He is currently a Senator, elected since 2016; and has announced his candidacy for president to succeed current President Duterte Rodrigo in 2022. 

Coming from nothing in his rural Philippines's country side to what he eventually became, a global personality with immerse fame and fortune, is an exact definition of rising "from grass to grace" and he achieved it all through sheer determination to succeed and will to become great. Hopefully he will win the presidential election in 2022 as a crowning glory to his boxing and political exploits; and further motivate millions more around the world, particularly those in Philippines, who will see in him that only you can stop yourself from becoming whatever you want to be. 

It would have been better had he ended his boxing career with a win rather than a loss to Yordenis Ugas, who now is forever etched in history as the last boxer who Manny Pacquiao fought in his boxing career and who also joins the only ten people to ever defeat Manny Pacquiao. Manny himself would have loved to have ended on such a high note but he did not write the script of his life and can only accept what destiny wrote for him, including how his boxing career would end, by losing his last fight. But all is well that ends well as he dropped his gloves without suffering any major career ending injury and retired on his own terms. May God be praised for blessing him so abundantly. 

ICHEOKU says Manny Pacquiao is right when he said that he will never forget what he accomplished in his life, and neither will his fans and the general world of boxing as well as the political class in the Philippines forget. So long Peoples Champ, Mr Pacman and National Fist of Philippines as he plunges headlong into becoming the next president of the Philippines. At 42 years old, he still have a lot of years ahead of him to do whatever his heart desires including become president and help make the Philippines great again. All the best with succeeding President Duterte Rodrigo as the next Philippines' president in 2022. President Manny Pacquiao  definitely sounds good to ICHEOKU and also millions of Philippines people. God speed, Pacman!