After his boxing match with Anpo on Rizin in Japan calls have come for him to stay retired but the Manny Pacquiao legacy lives forever.

Pacquiao would have done well out of the fight at the weekend despite it not going his way in the ring — he would have shone light on the new golden age of boxing in Japan too.

Important for Japan as a country, bigger than boxing, and great for boxing too of course.

We warned he was taking on a much bigger, younger opponent at the last minute with not much time to get ready for the change of opponent.

If Pacquiao does call it a day, again, or has one last proper boxing match where he knows who he is fighting well in advance, that’s his call and his call alone.

At the end of the day what a poor young kid growing up in the Philippines achieved for sport and humanity is unrivalled.

The help he gave poor and weaker people in his country and around the world, building houses in masses for people to many other great things, will never be forgotten about by real people.

In the boxing ring Manny Pacquiao is the only 8 weight division world champion in history.

No one will ever come close to that again.

Someone the world had never seen before nor ever will again when he’s gone.

A boxing legend but a legend of life and civilization.

Kudos to the “Pacman”.