{"id":526484,"date":"2026-03-08T09:41:11","date_gmt":"2026-03-08T09:41:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/526484\/"},"modified":"2026-03-08T09:41:11","modified_gmt":"2026-03-08T09:41:11","slug":"floyd-mayweathers-verdict-on-manny-pacquiaos-power-resurfaces-ahead-of-rematch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/526484\/","title":{"rendered":"Floyd Mayweather’s verdict on Manny Pacquiao’s power resurfaces ahead of rematch"},"content":{"rendered":"

A clip of Floyd Mayweather assessing Manny Pacquiao\u2019s power has added some contextual significance ahead of their professional rematch on September 19.<\/p>\n

The pair will square off in a second encounter at The Sphere, Las Vegas, with Mayweather gearing up for his first sanctioned bout since 2017.<\/p>\n

Despite the \u2018professional\u2019 tag attached to his crossover showdown with Conor McGregor, many would argue that it was nothing of the sort, as \u2018Money\u2019 comfortably stopped the UFC star in 10 rounds<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Nevertheless, the five-division world champion temporarily ended his career with an astonishing 50-0 (27 KOs) record, before entering a series of exhibitions and, more recently, announcing his return to a professional ring.<\/p>\n

Pacquiao, too, has been involved in several exhibition matches since their first encounter in 2015, while having also amassed eight professional outings.<\/p>\n

The most recent of which saw him box to a controversial draw against Mario Barrios<\/a>, the then-WBC welterweight champion, in July, which followed a near four-year hiatus that came after his defeat to Yordenis Ugas.<\/p>\n

Even when he lost a unanimous decision to Mayweather, the Filipino was thought to be well past his prime, or at least a far cry from the formidable puncher that stopped Ricky Hatton in 2009 \u2013 one of the 39 knockouts in his 73 bouts.<\/p>\n

It should therefore come as little surprise that Mayweather, while speaking with REVOLT<\/a> over six years ago, had only a few words of praise for Pacquiao\u2019s punching power.<\/p>\n

\u201cDon\u2019t get me wrong; Pacquiao\u2019s obviously got power. He\u2019s solid. It ain\u2019t nothing I\u2019ve never felt before, but he\u2019s solid.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe felt me too \u2013 and that\u2019s why he wasn\u2019t quick to run in there \u2013 so we felt each other.\u201d<\/p>\n

Entering their rematch at the age of 49 and 47, respectively, Mayweather and \u2018Pac Man\u2019 are certainly not the punchers they once were, but seemingly still believe they have what it takes to defeat one another.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A clip of Floyd Mayweather assessing Manny Pacquiao\u2019s power has added some contextual significance ahead of their professional…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":526485,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[571],"tags":[64,63,802,85],"class_list":["post-526484","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\/526484","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=526484"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/526484\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/526485"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=526484"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=526484"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=526484"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}