{"id":508875,"date":"2026-03-02T05:44:12","date_gmt":"2026-03-02T05:44:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/508875\/"},"modified":"2026-03-02T05:44:12","modified_gmt":"2026-03-02T05:44:12","slug":"andre-ward-warns-floyd-mayweather-ahead-of-pro-return-against-pacquiao","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/508875\/","title":{"rendered":"Andre Ward warns Floyd Mayweather ahead of pro return against Pacquiao"},"content":{"rendered":"

Floyd Mayweather is poised to return to the professional scene in September, as he takes on rival Manny Pacquiao<\/a> for a second time, and super-middleweight legend Andre Ward<\/a> has issued \u2018TBE\u2019 with a warning ahead of that fight.<\/p>\n

Mayweather famously boasts a professional record of 50-0, having retired off the back of a victory in his lucrative showdown with Conor McGregor in 2017, fighting solely in exhibition bouts in the years that have followed.<\/p>\n

Yet, over a decade on from his triumph over Pacquiao in their first meeting in 2015, the two pound-for-pound superstars are set to run it back in Mayweather\u2019s professional comeback<\/a>, at the respective ages of 49 and 47 years old.<\/p>\n

Speaking on the \u2018All The Smoke Fight\u2019 YouTube channel<\/a>, Hall of Fame fighter Ward, who also retired undefeated, explained why he believes Mayweather should resist the urge to continue to box after his rematch with \u2018Pac Man\u2019.<\/a><\/p>\n

\u201cFloyd Mayweather\u2019s return is bitter sweet to me. I don\u2019t mind Floyd and Manny [fighting each other], but if Floyd starts to campaign, which it seems like he is, as a professional fighter doing real sanctioned fights, I am struggling with that.<\/p>\n

\u201cI don\u2019t want to see Floyd take a loss against a guy that we\u2019ve never heard of. I don\u2019t want to see Floyd take a loss against a younger fighter, because the younger fighters, these days, they play for keeps.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey are not so enamoured with Floyd, where they won\u2019t try to beat him up. They don\u2019t love Floyd so much where they don\u2019t want that \u20180\u2019 on their record. They want to be able to say, \u2018I did that to Floyd\u2019, because then their name is forever etched in history.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere is nothing that they can do, before or after that, that is going to be bigger than them giving Floyd his first loss.\u201d<\/p>\n

Before Mayweather can fully focus on his Filipino foe, he first takes on heavyweight icon Mike Tyson in an exhibition contest, which is reported to take place in the Democratic Republic of Congo, on Saturday, April 25.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Floyd Mayweather is poised to return to the professional scene in September, as he takes on rival Manny…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":508876,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[447],"tags":[703,49,48,82],"class_list":["post-508875","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\/508875","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=508875"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/508875\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/508876"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=508875"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=508875"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=508875"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}