Manny Pacquiao trains teenage son for boxing career - and leaves wife in tears

"While I was watching them, I was about to cry. My son really wants to be a boxer," she said.

"Manny said, 'Babe, we finally have a boxer in the family. Nothing can stop him."

WBA welterweight champion Pacquiao commented: "It pains me that he is boxing because I know how hard it is.

"I told him, 'Daddy only went into boxing because of poverty... you don't need to box.

"[Jimuel] said, ‘Daddy, like you boxing is my passion also. I want to be a representative of this country as an athlete'.

“His mummy had cried several times telling him, 'Don't go into boxing, son'. [But] he really wants to do it."

Pacquiao defeated Adrian Broner in his 70th professional fight earlier this year.

He has been linked with a rematch with Floyd Mayweather Jr but is expected to take on Keith Thurman in his next fight.