{"id":250622,"date":"2025-10-30T09:41:07","date_gmt":"2025-10-30T09:41:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/250622\/"},"modified":"2025-10-30T09:41:07","modified_gmt":"2025-10-30T09:41:07","slug":"boxing-legend-manny-pacquiao-hints-at-possible-rematch-with-floyd-mayweather","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/250622\/","title":{"rendered":"Boxing legend Manny Pacquiao hints at possible rematch with Floyd Mayweather"},"content":{"rendered":"<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Manny Pacquiao has hinted a rematch of his 2015 blockbuster with Floyd Mayweather Jnr could be on the cards next year.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">\u201cRight now we have a lot of negotiations about my next fight \u2013 there\u2019s a possible rematch with Floyd Mayweather,\u201d Pacquiao told a news conference on Wednesday. \u201cThere\u2019s a lot of ongoing negotiations right now, so it\u2019s hard to plan what fight I\u2019m going to post. I\u2019m waiting for the final negotiation.\u201d<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">A world champion in eight divisions from flyweight to super welterweight, Pacquiao was enshrined in the International Boxing Hall of Fame in June.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">A month later, he emerged from retirement and fell just short of regaining a title at the age of 46, with Mario Barrios retaining the WBC welterweight championship after a majority draw.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Pacquiao initially retired in 2021 with a record of 62-8-2 with 39 KOs, fighting in some of the biggest blockbusters of the 2000s. He said he had always sought the toughest opponents so he could continue testing himself.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Ex-senator Manny Pacquiao (left) with Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos Jnr last month. Photo: AP\" data-qa=\"BaseImage-handleRenderImage-StyledImage\" class=\"e1gf69pb2 css-6ikqhs e445x7d0\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/3f73ba13-32c3-4b33-ab18-54b35cd98ca9_122a158e.jpg\" title=\"Ex-senator Manny Pacquiao (left) with Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos Jnr last month. Photo: AP\"\/>Ex-senator Manny Pacquiao (left) with Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos Jnr last month. Photo: AP<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">He also served his country as a senator from 2016 to 2022.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Manny Pacquiao has hinted a rematch of his 2015 blockbuster with Floyd Mayweather Jnr could be on the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":250623,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[571],"tags":[64,63,802,148739,485,84724,26700,117271,148738,2767,8199,7429,85,148737],"class_list":["post-250622","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-boxing","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-boxing","tag-brendan-lally","tag-california","tag-csi-sports","tag-floyd-mayweather","tag-international-boxing-hall-of-fame","tag-jimuel-pacquiao","tag-mario-barrios","tag-mike-tyson","tag-pacquiao","tag-sports","tag-wbc-welterweight-championship"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/250622","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=250622"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/250622\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/250623"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=250622"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=250622"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=250622"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}