{"id":560938,"date":"2026-03-26T01:01:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-26T01:01:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/560938\/"},"modified":"2026-03-26T01:01:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-26T01:01:08","slug":"the-last-man-manny-pacquiao-beat-delivers-verdict-on-mayweather-rematch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/560938\/","title":{"rendered":"The last man Manny Pacquiao beat delivers verdict on Mayweather rematch"},"content":{"rendered":"

Former world champion Keith Thurman<\/a>, who fought Manny Pacquiao<\/a> in 2019, has offered his take on the Filipino\u2019s rematch with Floyd Mayweather.<\/p>\n

The two Hall of Famers will square off in a professional contest on September 19<\/a>, headlining a Netflix event at the Sphere, Las Vegas.<\/p>\n

Their first encounter took place in 2015 and, even back then, many believed that both multi-division world champions were a far cry from their primes.<\/p>\n

Pacquiao, in particular, seemed to lack the explosive power and speed he once possessed in spades, with Mayweather ultimately claiming a unanimous decision victory.<\/p>\n

But despite the disappointing nature of the fight itself, it is still, statistically, the most lucrative boxing event of all time, based purely on its eye-watering gate receipts and pay-per-view sales.<\/p>\n

Because of this, Thurman believes that their second encounter is likely to generate considerable interest, especially with Mayweather putting 50-0 (27 KOs) record on the line.<\/p>\n

In that same breath, though, the 37-year-old has told FightHype<\/a> that he envisions their showdown being an even less appealing contest than it was the first time around.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think the story of [Mayweather-Pacquiao 2] is really the same story as always: Is today the day Floyd Mayweather loses in the ring?<\/p>\n

\u201cI think that\u2019s a big selling point that certain people are going to want to see, but I didn\u2019t see the same Manny Pacquiao [that Thurman fought] against Mario Barrios.<\/p>\n

\u201cBut they\u2019re both older, so I\u2019m not sure what we\u2019re going to get. But I believe we\u2019re going to get lesser of a fight [when compared to their first encounter].\u201d<\/p>\n

After claiming a split decision victory over Thurman<\/a>, Pacquiao lost a unanimous verdict to Yordenis Ugas and, just under four years later, boxed to a contentious draw against then-WBC welterweight champion Mario Barrios last July.<\/p>\n

Mayweather, meanwhile, has not fought professionally since 2017, back when he scored a 10th-round finish over Conor McGregor.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Former world champion Keith Thurman, who fought Manny Pacquiao in 2019, has offered his take on the Filipino\u2019s…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":560939,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[447],"tags":[703,49,48,82],"class_list":["post-560938","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\/560938","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=560938"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/560938\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/560939"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=560938"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=560938"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=560938"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}