{"id":405216,"date":"2026-01-12T20:02:46","date_gmt":"2026-01-12T20:02:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/405216\/"},"modified":"2026-01-12T20:02:46","modified_gmt":"2026-01-12T20:02:46","slug":"5-bold-predictions-for-boxing-for-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/405216\/","title":{"rendered":"5 Bold Predictions for Boxing for 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium css-1vqr2el\">Maybe 11 years are enough to shake off the malaise.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium css-1vqr2el\">Lest anyone forget, Mayweather and Manny Pacquiao got together in May 2015 for a fight hyped as the greatest thing since sliced bread. But after 12 desultory rounds and a wide decision win for &#8220;Money,&#8221; the prevailing mood was meh.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium css-1vqr2el\">Still, though the vibe even back then was that the fight should have occurred a few years earlier, the powers that be around the two Hall of Famers are suggesting a return bout is actually a possibility at some point this year&#8230;2026<\/p>\n<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium css-1vqr2el\">Mayweather, who fought just twice after beating Pacquiao, will be 49 in February. And the Filipino, whose 5-2-1 post-Floyd record includes losses to the likes of Jeff Horn and Yordenis Ugas and a draw against Mario Barrios, turned 47 last month.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium css-1vqr2el\">But because boxing has never been a place where common sense thrives, the guess here is that not only will the fight happen, but it&#8217;ll probably draw pretty significant interest for whatever platform gets the nod. <\/p>\n<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium css-1vqr2el\">And don&#8217;t be surprised if Shane Mosley or Oscar De La Hoya hit the winner with a callout.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Maybe 11 years are enough to shake off the malaise. Lest anyone forget, Mayweather and Manny Pacquiao got&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":405217,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[447],"tags":[703,49,48,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-405216","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\/405216","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=405216"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/405216\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/405217"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=405216"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=405216"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=405216"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}