{"id":432997,"date":"2026-01-23T21:03:07","date_gmt":"2026-01-23T21:03:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/432997\/"},"modified":"2026-01-23T21:03:07","modified_gmt":"2026-01-23T21:03:07","slug":"james-toney-rates-floyd-mayweathers-chances-of-ending-retirement-to-beat-pacquiao","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/432997\/","title":{"rendered":"James Toney rates Floyd Mayweather’s chances of ending retirement to beat Pacquiao"},"content":{"rendered":"

James Toney is not overly enthused by the prospect of Floyd Mayweather facing Manny Pacquiao<\/a>, but has nonetheless offered a prediction for their potential rematch.<\/p>\n

Their long-anticipated encounter finally took place in 2015, when Mayweather retained his WBC and WBA world welterweight titles with a clear unanimous decision victory.<\/p>\n

After that, the American improved his record to 50-0 (27 KOs) with further wins over Andre Berto and Conor McGregor, but has remained out of a professional ring ever since.<\/p>\n

Pacquiao, meanwhile, continued to compete at world level up to 2021, when he lost his WBA welterweight title via a unanimous verdict against Yordenis Ugas.<\/p>\n

A near four-year layoff \u2013 excluding any exhibition matches \u2013 was then ended in July 2025, with \u2018Pac Man\u2019 entering an immediate world title shot against WBC champion Mario Barrios.<\/p>\n

But despite the result of a draw<\/a>, many believe that the Filipino, aged 46 at the time, had done enough to dethrone the WBC belt-holder at 147lbs.<\/p>\n

Since then, Pacquiao has called for a lucrative rematch with Mayweather<\/a>, whose only outings since 2017 have come via a string of exhibitions.<\/p>\n

It is largely because of his inactivity in recent years that pound-for-pound legend Toney doubts whether Mayweather can replicate the success he enjoyed the first time around.<\/p>\n

Speaking with ESNEWS<\/a>, the Hall of Famer insisted that Pacquiao\u2019s movement, in particular, would prove a significant factor in their possible rematch.<\/p>\n

\u201cAre you serious? I\u2019m going to say Manny Pacquiao [wins their potential rematch]. He still has the movement, and I haven\u2019t seen Floyd in like 10 years.\u201d<\/p>\n

It is just over 10 years ago, in fact, that Mayweather emerged triumphant against Pacquiao who, even back then, was widely thought to be well past his best.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"James Toney is not overly enthused by the prospect of Floyd Mayweather facing Manny Pacquiao, but has nonetheless…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":432998,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[571],"tags":[64,63,802,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-432997","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\/432997","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=432997"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/432997\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/432998"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=432997"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=432997"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=432997"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}