{"id":509217,"date":"2026-02-28T07:14:08","date_gmt":"2026-02-28T07:14:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/509217\/"},"modified":"2026-02-28T07:14:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-28T07:14:08","slug":"keyshawn-davis-predicts-mayweather-vs-pacquiao-2-its-different-this-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/509217\/","title":{"rendered":"Keyshawn Davis predicts Mayweather vs Pacquiao 2: “It’s different this time”"},"content":{"rendered":"

This September, Floyd Mayweather and Manny Pacquiao<\/a> will revisit their rivalry in one of the standout events of the 2026 boxing calendar. Ahead of the rematch, former WBO lightweight champion Keyshawn Davis<\/a> has offered his thoughts.<\/p>\n

Mayweather and Pacquiao collided in the \u2018Fight of the Century\u2019 back in 2015<\/a>, as \u2018TBE\u2019 claimed a crucial unanimous decision to become a three-belt unified welterweight champion and claim the bragging rights over his long-term rival.<\/p>\n

Now, 11 years on from their initial encounter, the two will meet again, at the ages of 49 and 47 years old, heading a blockbuster Netflix bill at The Sphere in Las Vegas<\/a>.<\/p>\n

In an interview with FightHype<\/a>, Davis spoke with excitement ahead of the battle, but admitted that he gives Floyd Mayweather the edge, due to the fact that he already holds a win over \u2018Pac Man\u2019.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s a legendary fight.<\/p>\n

I feel like it\u2019s going to be a different fight, they are at two different ages, they are well past their [initial] retirements. They were both retired for a long time and I think that it\u2019s going to be a different fight, so the fans are definitely going to be tuning in.<\/p>\n

\u201cFloyd [has the advantage], for sure, he already won the first time. You are only as good as your last performance [against each other], [in the] last performance, Floyd won.<\/p>\n

\u201cBoth of their reflexes and timing still ain\u2019t there but, I\u2019m going to say this though, Pacquiao\u2019s last performance was crazy, against a younger fighter too. Floyd has also been doing lots of exhibitions, so they have both been kind of active, but I can only judge off their last fight.\u201d<\/p>\n

Before rematching Pacquiao, Mayweather first takes on heavyweight icon Mike Tyson in an exhibition bout which is reported to be in the Democratic Republic of Congo on Saturday, April 25.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"This September, Floyd Mayweather and Manny Pacquiao will revisit their rivalry in one of the standout events of…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":509218,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[571],"tags":[64,63,802,85],"class_list":["post-509217","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-boxing","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-boxing","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/509217","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=509217"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/509217\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/509218"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=509217"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=509217"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=509217"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}