{"id":283092,"date":"2025-11-14T18:36:10","date_gmt":"2025-11-14T18:36:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/283092\/"},"modified":"2025-11-14T18:36:10","modified_gmt":"2025-11-14T18:36:10","slug":"floyd-mayweather-vs-manny-pacquiao-rematch-prediction-from-a-champion-who-faced-both","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/283092\/","title":{"rendered":"Floyd Mayweather vs Manny Pacquiao rematch prediction from a champion who faced both"},"content":{"rendered":"

Many big names from the boxing world continue to react to the shock potential rematch between Floyd Mayweather and Manny Pacquiao<\/a>.<\/p>\n

It was revealed last month that the two legendary fighters could be set for a rematch<\/a>, over 10 years on from when they met back in May 2015.<\/p>\n

Mayweather claimed a unanimous decision victory on that occasion, in what was the biggest PPV buy rate of all time, with 4,600,000 buys for the event.<\/p>\n

Prior to that, the biggest PPV buy rate was when Mayweather took on Oscar De La Hoya in May 2007, claiming a split decision win over \u2018The Golden Boy.\u2019 De La Hoya also took on Pacquiao, suffering an eighth round retirement defeat in December 2008.<\/p>\n

With experience of facing both men, Hall of Fame inductee De La Hoya has now given his take on a Mayweather vs. Pacquiao rematch, telling FightHype<\/a> that he is still intrigued by it despite it being so long after their first encounter.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt should have happened a long time ago. I don\u2019t mind it because it will be entertaining. I\u2019m curious to see how Mayweather will react to Pacquiao\u2019s style again. Mayweather is Mayweather, he has a great style, great defence, probably the same thing will happen again but it will be entertaining.<\/p>\n

\u201cI wouldn\u2019t mind watching it again but it should have happened a long time ago. This is exactly what I tell fighters. You have to seize the opportunity at the moment when it\u2019s hot, when people are talking about it. Pacquiao and Mayweather should have fought several months after they had their first fight. Imagine how big that would have been.<\/p>\n

\u201cI don\u2019t know how big it will be them fighting now, but I think I will watch it just to be entertained. They\u2019re both two of the best elite fighters on the planet so you\u2019ve got to give them their props.\u201d<\/p>\n

Fellow great Roy Jones Jr has also shared his thoughts on how he thinks the rematch could play out.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Many big names from the boxing world continue to react to the shock potential rematch between Floyd Mayweather…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":283093,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[447],"tags":[703,49,48,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-283092","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-boxing","8":"tag-boxing","9":"tag-ca","10":"tag-canada","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/283092","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=283092"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/283092\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/283093"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=283092"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=283092"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=283092"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}