Manny Pacquiao’s return to the ring against Mario Barrios on July 19 for the WBC welterweight belt will be a family affair event. This is because Pacquiao’s 24-year-old son Jimuel is on track to make his professional boxing debut on the undercard of his 46-year-old father’s fight.
Jimuel amassed a 6-4 amateur boxing record, but lost four consecutive fights at one point. That raised some question marks from his pops. About whether his son was truly cut out for the boxing game. From an article by Geoffrey Gray in Alta Magazine, Manny Pacquiao made a blunt admission about his son’s boxing aspirations.