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<\/p>\nBy: Sean Crose<\/p>\n
What\u2019s in a name? A whole lot if that name is Pacquiao. Just ask Jimuel Pacquiao, son of the great Manny Pacquiao. A well spoken, likeable young man, the junior Pacquiao will be making his professional ring debut Saturday night in Temecula, California. Pacquiao was supposed to be making his debut on the the same card as his famous father a few months back when Pacquiao impressed in a comeback battle against Mario Barios. Those plans may have fallen through due to the younger Pacquiao sustaining an injury. Now, however, the 24 year old is eager to make his own mark on the fight game. <\/p>\n
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\u201cI\u2019ve been wanting to for a while,\u201d Pacquiao told Fight Hub\u2019s Marcos Villegas, \u201cbut I have a real good team and they always make sure that I\u2019m ready.\u201d And what about the team at home? \u201cMy parents are scared, of course,\u201d he admitted. Indeed, he said his father won\u2019t stop giving me pointers on what to do.\u201d This makes sense of course, but on Saturday, Pacquiao will be on his own when he faces Chicago high school English teacher Brendan Lally, who also be making his professional debut. \u201cI knew,\u201d Lally told CBS, \u201cif I passed up this opportunity to do something so incredible, the coolest thing in the world, to me, on the coolest stage possible, I knew I would regret it,\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
Like Pacquiao, Lally comes from a boxing background, which makes the interesting pairing of a legend\u2019s son and a high school educator all the more interesting. With that being said, Pacquiao, who is being trained by Marvin Somodio, has a top notch team behind him. Somodio is the protege of Pacquiao\u2019s famed trainer Freddie Roach, after all. As things stand, the plan is to successfully guide the younger Pacquiao along, one step at a time. <\/p>\n
\u201cRight now we\u2019re taking it by fight,\u201d Pacquiao told Villegas. \u201cWe\u2019ll see how far I can get.\u201d Although it\u2019s hard to imagine most anyone achieving what Pacquiao\u2019s father has, it\u2019s worth noting that some fighters have successfully emerged from the reputations of their own fathers. Floyd Mayweather senior and Floyd Mayweather Jr. come to mind. An interesting but little spoken aspect of boxing is that the the fighter\u2019s opponent is often himself. Although we can\u2019t look inside the younger Pacquiao\u2019s mind, we can assume he doesn\u2019t need to box due to the financial success of his family. Yet he\u2019ll still be slipping in between the ropes on Saturday to face another man who obviously doesn\u2019t need to box. <\/p>\n
No doubt each fighter will have much to prove to himself. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"By: Sean Crose What\u2019s in a name? A whole lot if that name is Pacquiao. Just ask Jimuel…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":314877,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[571],"tags":[64,63,802,85],"class_list":["post-314876","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-boxing","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-boxing","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/314876","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=314876"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/314876\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/314877"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=314876"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=314876"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=314876"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}