{"id":800606,"date":"2026-07-14T22:35:10","date_gmt":"2026-07-14T22:35:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/800606\/"},"modified":"2026-07-14T22:35:10","modified_gmt":"2026-07-14T22:35:10","slug":"bob-arum-predicts-floyd-mayweather-vs-manny-pacquiao-rematch-i-favour-him","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/800606\/","title":{"rendered":"Bob Arum predicts Floyd Mayweather vs Manny Pacquiao rematch: “I favour him”"},"content":{"rendered":"

Top Rank founder Bob Arum has weighed in with his view on how the proposed Floyd Mayweather vs. Manny Pacquiao<\/a> rematch may play out.<\/p>\n

Arum knows both fighters extremely well, having promoted each of them throughout various stages of their respective illustrious careers.<\/p>\n

He worked with Mayweather from the start of his professional career in 1996 until 2006, as Mayweather won world titles in multiple divisions before famously exercising a clause in his contract to buy out his deal as the two sides went their separate ways.<\/p>\n

Arum then guided the career of Pacquiao from 2005 to 2017, which included the battle with Mayweather in May 2015, as the Filipino suffered a unanimous decision defeat to his rival.<\/p>\n

Over a decade on from that encounter, the two boxing legends were set to compete again this September, but various issues have led to the postponement of the fight<\/a>, though their remains some optimism it could be rescheduled for next year.<\/p>\n

If that was to be the case, Arum has told The Ring<\/a> that he believes the edge has to be given to Pacquiao.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s the great unknown, considering their ages. But right now, I would favour Pacquiao, because he\u2019s been the more active guy and he\u2019s been in the gym and even fought last year.<\/p>\n

It appears to me he\u2019s in better boxing shape than Mayweather. It certainly will be an entertaining fight, if it happens.\u201d<\/p>\n

Whether the fight will still happen remains the mystery, with Pacquiao\u2019s team already exploring other options for the eight-weight world champion.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Top Rank founder Bob Arum has weighed in with his view on how the proposed Floyd Mayweather vs.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":800607,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[571],"tags":[64,63,802,85],"class_list":["post-800606","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\/800606","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=800606"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/800606\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/800607"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=800606"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=800606"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=800606"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}