Apart from winning the WBO welterweight belt anew, his third time, Pacquiao also realized his dream date with history as he also became the first incumbent senator who is also a boxing champion anywhere in the world.
After the fight, Manny Pacquiao now totes a 59-6-2 win-loss-draw record while Vargas fell to a 27-2 win-loss slate.
While Manny Pacquiao proved victorious in his comeback fight from his brief retirement, many critics are saying that the Pacman hardly went on retirement.
His last fight was on April 9 this year where he also won via unanimous decision over Timothy Bradley. Immediately after the fight, he decided to retire to focus on his campaign as he was then running for one of the 12 seats in the Philippine Senate.
He won during the May 9 elections and officially became a Senator on June 30. He started working in the Senate in the last week of July after the opening of the 17th Congress.
A little over a week later or in the first week of August, he announced that he was coming out of retirement and declared that he will vie for the WBO welterweight championship against Jessie Vargas. He has been training in the Philippines since then.
So basically, it was hardly a retirement but a brief respite from boxing that boxers normally take after a big fight in the ring.