{"id":137743,"date":"2025-09-12T13:06:07","date_gmt":"2025-09-12T13:06:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/137743\/"},"modified":"2025-09-12T13:06:07","modified_gmt":"2025-09-12T13:06:07","slug":"manny-pacquiao-names-the-one-opponent-he-could-never-ko-he-had-the-best-chin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/137743\/","title":{"rendered":"Manny Pacquiao Names The One Opponent He Could Never KO: “He Had The Best Chin”"},"content":{"rendered":"

Manny Pacquiao<\/a> has faced a real who\u2019s who of boxing stars over the course of a storied 30-year career.<\/p>\n

Despite having turned over in 1995, the Filipino legend is still boxing now, aged 46. Back in July, he rolled back the years once more with a draw with WBC welterweight champion Mario Barrios, and is now said to be targeting a different opponent for his next bout.<\/a><\/p>\n

He has already become the oldest welterweight world champion in history at the age of 40 when he beat Keith Thurman in 2019<\/a>, and is the only boxer in history to win twelve world titles in eight different weight divisions, from flyweight all the way up to light middleweight.<\/p>\n

Along the way, he has squared up to the likes of Floyd Mayweather, Ricky Hatton, Tim Bradley, Juan Manuel Marquez, Shane Mosley and many more over his 73-fight career.<\/p>\n

Speaking to The Ring Magazine\u2019s Best I Ever Faced feature, Pacquiao admitted that one opponent was tougher than all the rest.<\/p>\n

\u201cAntonio Margarito [had the best chin]. That fight was a war. It was brutal. I threw everything at him, and he not only took it but came back for more. Incredible.\u201d<\/p>\n

This fight took place back in 2010 for the vacant WBC super-welterweight title at the AT&T Stadium in Texas. Pacquiao went into the fight shorter and lighter but still quickly imposed himself with his speed and technique.<\/p>\n

He beat Margarito so bad he was pleading with the referee to stop the fight, but it ended up going the distance with \u2018Pac Man\u2019 picking up a unanimous decision and scorecards of 120-108, 118-110 and 119-109.<\/p>\n

Margarito finished with a record of 41 wins, 8 defeats and 1 no contest, but saw the final few years of his professional career marred after a controversy regarding tampered hand wraps.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Manny Pacquiao has faced a real who\u2019s who of boxing stars over the course of a storied 30-year…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":137744,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[571],"tags":[64,63,802,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-137743","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-boxing","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-boxing","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137743","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=137743"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137743\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/137744"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=137743"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=137743"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=137743"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}