All my life a Manny Pacquiao fight meant a couple of things; I'd be going to another Filipino's house to watch the game, there would be tons of my favorite foods (pancit, lumpia, adobo) and there would be at least 5 people yelling in both English and Tagalog every time he landed a punch.

Saturday night, Manny Pacquiao entered the boxing ring for possibly the last time to fight Timothy Bradley and won 116-110.

If you know anything about the Pac-Man, you know this is not his first bout with Bradley. They faced in 2012 where the judges ruled in favor if Bradley leaving the Filipino community, and most others, up in arms over the fight that Pacquiao clearly should have won. Manny got his revenge and returned to the spotlight when he defeated him in a rematch in 2014. This third and final fight between the pair was to set the score forever.

When Manny entered the MGM Garden Arena in Las Vegas on Saturday night, he was about to fight against another legend (Bradley's record is 33 wins and two losses both to Manny Pacquiao) but was also most likely walking into the last fight of his career and my last opportunity to watch him fight live. But I missed it.

There is something about Filipinos that makes them go crazy over famous Filipinos; it's like middle school girls and One Direction, high school boys and football. Lea Salonga, the singing voice of Mulan and Jasmine, has been my idol since the day I learned every word to every song in Mulan. When Bruno Mars hit it big, I couldn't stop singing his songs for months. Although most of the people in my neighborhood and my high school had never even thought of boxing, it was one of my favorite things to watch with my family and Filipino friends.

My heart aches knowing that never again will I be able to sit around at a party that's sole purpose was to watch a boxing match. Never again will I sit around a cramped college apartment with the other Filipino students on campus to watch one of the best boxers in the world fight, or watch my mom and aunties yell "AY NAKO" as Pacquiao gets punched or lands his own punches.

The bonding with others that I've gained because my culture and my ethnicity will still grow but one of the facets that sparked my love for the Phillippines is coming to an end. But Pacquiao has brought so much needed attention to the people of the Philippines and for that alone he could have been remembered for years to come. He is an inspiration to me, someone who centers me when I'm feeling a little far away from my Filipino culture, and because of that, even in his retirement, I will always admire him.

With this win, the Pac-Man is leaving boxing as the WBO international welterweight champion. "Physically, if you ask me, I'm still okay, I can still fight," Pacquiao said afterward. "But I made my decision to go back to the Philippines and help the people, and spend time with my family."

And those last words are what being Filipino is all about - family in every sense of the word.