{"id":4916,"date":"2025-07-18T07:41:10","date_gmt":"2025-07-18T07:41:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/4916\/"},"modified":"2025-07-18T07:41:10","modified_gmt":"2025-07-18T07:41:10","slug":"floyd-mayweather-delivers-honest-verdict-on-manny-pacquiaos-power-ahead-of-title-fight-return","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/4916\/","title":{"rendered":"Floyd Mayweather Delivers Honest Verdict On Manny Pacquiao’s Power Ahead Of Title Fight Return"},"content":{"rendered":"

Floyd Mayweather<\/a> Jr has commented on the punching power of Manny Pacquiao<\/a> ahead of his return to the ring.<\/p>\n

The 46-year-old Filipino great is set to challenge reigning WBC world welterweight champion Mario Barrios<\/a> this Saturday July 19 at the MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas, Nevada.<\/p>\n

\u2018PacMan\u2019 had announced his retirement from the sport back in 2021, just a couple of months after he was defeated by former WBA world welterweight champion Yordenis Ugas in June of the same year.<\/p>\n

Pacquiao locked horns with Mayweather a decade ago in a bout that was dubbed as \u2018The Fight of The Century\u2019<\/a>, although their highly anticipated showdown failed to live up to the expectations that had been set beforehand, as \u2018Money\u2019 was declared the winner via unanimous decision.<\/p>\n

Many fans and pundits had couldn\u2019t split the two before the clash, but the Filipino icon fell short on the night in what was an underwhelming twelve round encounter.<\/p>\n

In a Youtube interview<\/a>, Mayweather admitted that whilst Pacquiao had noticeable punching power, it was \u2018nothing\u2019 he hadn\u2019t felt prior to facing the eight division world champion.<\/p>\n

\u201cPacquiao obviously got power also, you know I\u2019ve been in there with him. He\u2019s solid, he\u2019s solid, it ain\u2019t nothing I\u2019ve never felt before but he\u2019s solid.<\/p>\n

He felt me too that\u2019s why he wasn\u2019t quick to run in there, so it\u2019s obvious we both felt each other.\u201d<\/p>\n

Mayweather would go on to announce his retirement from the sport just 2-years after he defeated Pacquiao, ending his glittering career with a comprehensive victory over MMA legend Conor McGregor in August of 2017 to extend his unbeaten record to 50-0.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Floyd Mayweather Jr has commented on the punching power of Manny Pacquiao ahead of his return to the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4917,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[447],"tags":[703,49,48,82],"class_list":["post-4916","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\/4916","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=4916"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4916\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4917"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4916"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4916"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4916"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}