Manny Pacquiao
I’m not the kind off boxer to be a talker! Pacquiao warns Opponents after latest Title win
Boxing’s only eight-division world champion, Senator Manny “PacMan” Pacquiao (62-7-2, 39 KOs) dropped Keith “One Time” Thurman (29-1, 22 KOs) in round one and won a close split decision to earn a welterweight world title in the main event of a Premier Boxing Champions on FOX Sports Pay-Per-View event Saturday night from the MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas.
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Pacquiao: ‘I’m willing to fight Floyd again’
Pacquiao answers a handful of perfunctory questions from Showtime’s Jim Gray about a fight that wasn’t particularly interesting, either on paper or in how it played out.
Then, inevitably, the conversation inevitably turns to a rematch with Floyd Mayweather Jr, the specter of which has loomed over this promotion from jump street.
Does Manny want it?
“Tell (Floyd) to come back to the ring and then we will fight,” Pacquiao says. “I’m willing to fight him again, to fight Floyd Mayweather.”
Showtime’s Gray then asks Mayweather if he will accept the challenge as a camera films him in the first row: “A simple nod will do on the monitor.”
Mayweather looks away from the camera. This is pure WWE camp and it’s a bit depressing to be honest. I can’t imagine there was anything Floyd saw in Manny’s performance tonight that suggests a rematch would play out any different than their first fight. But maybe that’s the point.
More follows…
Floyd Mayweather has said he will come out of retirement to fight Manny Pacquiao in a rematch later this year.
Manny Pacquiao said on Friday he has opened talks to fight mixed martial arts star Conor McGregor in April when he takes a break from his legislative duties.
Australia’s Jeff Horn stunned Filipino Manny Pacquiao in a bloody Brisbane battle to claim a unanimous 12-round decision and win the WBO world welterweight title albeit in very controversial style in front of 50,000 fans at Suncorp Stadium on Sunday.
Manny Pacquiao has touched down Down Under to promote his fight with Australian Jeff Horn.
Pacquiao is set to fight Horn at the Suncorp Stadium in Brisbane as the Filipino once again puts his WBO World welterweight title on the line.
It will be his first bout ever contested in Australia, and to mark the occasion, the Pac Man headed to Brisbane to promote the fight using all things Australian.
Here are some of the pictures from the event.
Image credit: REUTERS, GETTY IMAGES, AP IMAGES, EPA.
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