Manny Pacquiao-Mario Barrios<\/a> battle for the World Boxing Council (WBC) welterweight belt.<\/p>\n\u201c(MP Promotions president) Sean Gibbons is preparing another world championship fight for me, so I need to win over Cuellar impressively,\u201d said Magsayo, the former world featherweight champion from Tagbilaran, Bohol, who has relocated to Los Angeles in pursuit of ring glory.<\/p>\n
\u201cThis (fight) is our stepping stone to a world title fight,\u201d said Magsayo, baring that Gibbons intends to arrange it before the year ends.<\/p>\n
Having prepared long and hard, the 30-year-old Magsayo is confident of improving his 27-win, 2-loss, 18-knockout record.<\/p>\n
\u201cI trained for three months in the Philippines then another three months in Los Angeles. I sparred 8-and 10-round sessions. It was a really good camp,\u201d said Magsayo, adding that he benefited from workouts with Pacquiao, especially the mountain runs at the Griffith Park.<\/p>\n
Magsayo said he felt good as he made weight at 129 pounds, same as his foe. <\/p>\n
According to Magsayo, Cuellar is tailor-made for him because the Guadalajaran isn\u2019t overly aggressive and doesn\u2019t move much.<\/p>\n
\u201cThere\u2019s gonna be a knockdown. We\u2019re going to give a good show and fight toe-to-toe,\u201d Magsayo assured journalists during the undercard presser at the Studio Ballroom of the MGM Grand on Thursday.<\/p>\n
Cuellar, 21-2-2 with 13 knockouts, feels upbeat like Magsayo.<\/p>\n
\u201cI prepared like never before. I\u2019m ready to win,\u201d said the 24-year-old Cuellar, 3 centimeters shorter than Magsayo at 5-foot-5.<\/p>\n
This will be Magsayo\u2019s second appearance in a Pacquiao headlinerIt, having knocked out Julio Ceja in the 10th round of the Pacquiao-Yordenis Ugas undercard in 2021.<\/p>\n
Magsayo became the WBC featherweight king in 2022 when he beat Gary Russell, only to be dethroned by Rey Vargas in his first defense.<\/p>\n
He has racked up three straight wins since then and wants to make Cuellar the fourth victim. \u2013 Rappler.com<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"This is AI generated summarization, which may have errors. For context, always refer to the full article. Bohol…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":5910,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[571],"tags":[64,63,802,85],"class_list":["post-5909","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\/5909","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=5909"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5909\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5910"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5909"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5909"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5909"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}