{"id":3470,"date":"2025-07-17T18:37:08","date_gmt":"2025-07-17T18:37:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/3470\/"},"modified":"2025-07-17T18:37:08","modified_gmt":"2025-07-17T18:37:08","slug":"why-manny-pacquiao-came-out-of-retirement-to-return-to-boxing-after-4-years-away","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/3470\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Manny Pacquiao came out of retirement to return to boxing after 4 years away"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Manny Pacquiao is a legend.<\/p>\n<p>He didn&#8217;t need to come out of retirement to prove that. The eight-division champion and hero of the Philippines has already done plenty.<\/p>\n<p>But Pacquiao is back.<\/p>\n<p>He&#8217;s taking on WBC welterweight champion Mario Barrios on Saturday in Las Vegas.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s why:<\/p>\n<p>Why did Manny Pacquiao come out of retirement?<\/p>\n<p>Manny Pacquaio offered a simple explanation for his return to <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/boxing\/story\/_\/id\/45745412\/manny-pacquiao-returns-boxing-gym-where-all-started-24-years-ago\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">ESPN&#8217;s Andreas Hale<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;m coming back because boxing is my passion. It&#8217;s all I think about, and I really like to make history.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Pacquiao is trying to break his own record.<\/p>\n<p>In 2019, he won the world welterweight title when he beat Keith Thurman. Pacquiao was 40 then, the oldest to ever accomplish that feat.<\/p>\n<p>Now at 46 years old, Pacquiao would shatter his own mark and likely leave it out of reach for anyone else.<\/p>\n<p>Is this it?<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s hard to say what tomorrow holds,&#8221; Pacquiao told ESPN. &#8220;I always leave it to God, and he gave me the chance to fight again. But if my body feels strong after this fight&#8230;&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>MORE:\u00a0<a target=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sportingnews.com\/ca\/boxing\/news\/manny-pacquiao-best-fights-ranked-boxing-pacman-greatest\/ac5831f21bfc9e95d12f3975\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Ranking Manny Pacquiao&#8217;s best fights<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Manny Pacquiao is a legend. He didn&#8217;t need to come out of retirement to prove that. The eight-division&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3471,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[447],"tags":[703,49,48,82],"class_list":["post-3470","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-boxing","tag-boxing","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3470","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=3470"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3470\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3471"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3470"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3470"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3470"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}