{"id":6069,"date":"2025-07-18T18:02:04","date_gmt":"2025-07-18T18:02:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/6069\/"},"modified":"2025-07-18T18:02:04","modified_gmt":"2025-07-18T18:02:04","slug":"manny-pacquiao-comeback-card-suffers-major-blow-as-fighter-forced-to-pull-out-at-last-minute","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/6069\/","title":{"rendered":"Manny Pacquiao Comeback Card Suffers Major Blow As Fighter Forced To Pull Out At Last Minute"},"content":{"rendered":"

Manny Pacquiao<\/a> has been in training for several months ahead of his planned return to the ring.<\/a><\/p>\n

The Filipino boxing icon hasn\u2019t fought since back in August 2021 when he lost a WBA welterweight title fight to Yordenis Ugas at the T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas.<\/p>\n

Many people expected that to be the last time that they would see Pacquiao inside a professional boxing ring, but he shocked everybody by announcing a return to the sport at the age of 46 to challenge WBC welterweight champion Mario Barrios at the MGM Grand on Saturday.<\/p>\n

The card was also set to feature a super-lightweight bout between former WBA champion Isaac Cruz, and Mexican hard-hitter Angel Fierro. It would have been a rematch from their meeting back in February, which Cruz won by unanimous decision.<\/p>\n

With just hours to go until fight night though, it has been revealed by Mike Coppinger<\/a> that Fierro has had to withdraw from the bout.<\/p>\n

\u201cAngel Fierro has been forced to withdraw from Saturday\u2019s rematch with Isaac \u201cPitbull\u201d Cruz, sources told @ringmagazine. The 140-pound fight was scheduled for the Manny Pacquiao-Mario Barrios PPV undercard in Las Vegas. Cruz defeated Fierro in a firefight in February.<\/p>\n

Fierro encountered health issues during his weight cut, sources said. Told Fierro is headed to a hospital for observation after he encountered health issues during his weight cut. Wishing him speedy recovery.\u201d<\/p>\n

It\u2019s currently unknown whether a replacement opponent will be secured to allow Cruz to remain on the card, but the main event will still see Pacquiao make his return to face Barrios.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Manny Pacquiao has been in training for several months ahead of his planned return to the ring. The…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":6070,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[447],"tags":[703,49,48,82],"class_list":["post-6069","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\/6069","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=6069"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6069\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6070"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6069"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6069"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6069"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}