Manny Pacquiao in several exposures in the latest issue of Playboy in which he talks about his post-boxing plans.
In an exclusive interview with The STAR last May before her husband Manny Pacquiao’s ho-hum fight with Shane Mosley in Las Vegas (where Pacquiao rained punches on Mosley
who refused to hit back), Jinkee Pacquiao admitted that she and Manny abstain from sex at least 21 days before his fight.
“Hindi na talaga puwede, bawal na,” said Jinkee in a free-wheeling chat at their Hancock Park home in California. “Kuwentuhan na lang at hug-hug in bed. What do we talk about?Wala. Yakap-yakap lang hanggang makatulog kami.”
Manny in a well, ‘somewhat off-key’ duet of How Deep Is Your Love with host Kimmel on Late Night With Jimmy Kimmel.
Jinkee’s “confession” is validated by Manny in a story by Kevin Cook in the latest issue ofPlayboy which identifies Manny by his full name: Emmanuel Dapidran Pacquiao.
Cook describes Manny’s rigid training for his title third return bout (Welterweight\
Championship) with Mexico’s Juan Manuel Marquez tomorrow, Nov. 13 (Manila time), at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas, and in the next paragraph proceeds to discuss the Pacquiao couple’s sex life:
About 3,500 calories later, his day ends. Manny and Jinkee head to bed a little after two a.m. To sleep. No sex — he and (trainer Freddie) Roach have agreed there will be no sex for the next couple of weeks. Believing the old adage that sex saps strength, Pacquiao follows a strict no-Jinkee policy during training. “We’ve talked to doctors about it,” Roach says. “Sex lowers your testosterone, so you’re not as mean.” Most boxers abstain for a week or more before a bout. “I ask my guys for 10 days,” Roach says. Of course Pacquiao beats the others even when it comes to abstinence. He stays chaste for 21 days before a bout, husbanding his energies for post-fight activities. And with that policy, Roach says, “when a fighter wins, the couple is usually very happy that night.”
Marquez in the controversial T-shirt which Manny says is ‘disrespectful.’ Below: Manny as cover boy of the latest issue of Ring.
Jinkee flew to L.A. the other night, evading the media at the NAIA, on her way to Las Vegas to, as usual, give Manny moral support, putting the rumors to rest that she was not watching the bout because she was hurt by reports linking Manny to another woman.
“The fact that Jinkee is here proves that everything is okay between her and Manny,” said the couple’s best friend Dr. Vicki Belo in a text message to Funfarefrom Las Vegas.
In recent interviews, Manny said that after maybe two more fights, he planned to quit boxing --- and run for President of the Philippines (no kidding!!!)?
In the same Playboy interview, Manny’s 79-year-old promoter Bob Arum didn’t say that Manny will run for President of the Philippines; he said with finality, “Manny is going to be President of the Philippines.”
Explained Cook, “Under Philippine law, presidents must be at least 40 years old. They serve six-year terms. Pacquiao will be 37 when the next presidential election comes in 2016, so he can’t run until 2022.”
Now serving his first term as Saranggani Congressman, Manny is rumored to be running for senator in the next election. “I am a man of the people,” Manny told Cook. “I have to win all my fights, all the fights I have left, so I don’t disappoint them. Boxing, then politics.”
I was in L.A. last week for the Breaking Dawn 1 junket (watch for my Conversation with Robert Pattinson and Kristen Stewart this afternoon on Startalk and tomorrow in The STAR) and I saw Manny singing How Deep Is Your Love with host Kimmel onLate Night With Jimmy Kimmel, after which was shown a film clip of Marquez wearing a T-shirt on which this was printed: MARQUEZ BEAT PACQUIAO TWICE. I noticed Manny’s face turned sour. In recent interviews, Manny said it was “disrespectful” of Marquez to have done that, that’s why Manny wants to settle the issue once and for all on their third encounter.
From the Playboy interview, one quotation that struck me about Manny was this (spoken when Roach yelled at him to “finish him off!” during a bout with another boxer): “Boxing isn’t killing each other. I beat him up enough.”
Will Manny “beat up” Marquez “enough” in tomorrow’s much-awaited event?
Stay tuned.
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