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The road to redemption started this week for both Filipino boxing great Manny Pacquiao and American Brandon “Bam Bam” Rios protagonists in a 12-round rumble on Sunday in Macau in their efforts to erase the stigma of separate defeats they suffered in their previous fights.

While the weekend confrontation is a vehicle for both Pacquiao and Rios in their bid to bounce back from previous losses, it holds more significant for the Filipino eight-division champion as it might decide where his successful colorful 18-year fighting career is headed to.

A loss, according to many, may signal his eventual retirement, which

Pacquiao refuted in an earlier interview with this writer saying, win or lose hanging up his gloves this early is far from his mind.

“How can I retire when I’m not even thinking of losing?” he assured during that one-on-one interview two weeks ago.

A declaration he reaffirmed after his short sparring session yesterday morning at the Pacman Wild Card Gym here where he proclaimed to be ready for the nettle ahead.

“Ready na tayo,” he said. “Pagdating sa Macau, konting ensayo na lang ang kailangan. As we’ve been saying, maganda ang camp and after only three weeks in the camp, na-recover na yung mga nawala because of a long, almost a year layoff.