Manny Pacquiao (62-8-2, 39 knockouts) will be back in the ring for the first time in nearly four years Saturday night when he meets Mario Barrios (29-2-1) for the WBC welterweight title at MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas. Pacquiao, 46, last fought in August 2021, when he lost to Yordenis Ugas via unanimous decision and subsequently announced his retirement. After competing in an exhibition match last summer, Pacquiao announced in May that he would fight again this summer. Follow along for live updates,
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Pacquiao is the only boxer to win world championships in eight weight divisions. He became the oldest welterweight champion in history in 2019.
Barrios, 30, has held the WBC welterweight title since last year. He is a substantial favorite to beat Pacquiao and retain the belt.
Saturday\u2019s event can be \uff33\uff54\uff52\uff45\uff41\uff4ded live on Prime Video Pay-Per-View ($79.95). Preliminary bouts started at 8 p.m. Eastern, and the main event begins around 11.
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Manny Pacquiao was unable to rekindle the dominance of his prime, fading in the later rounds and losing via unanimous decision to Yordensis Ugas, who as a late replacement scored the most convincing victory of his career.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Manny Pacquiao (62-8-2, 39 knockouts) will be back in the ring for the first time in nearly four…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":9648,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[447],"tags":[703,49,48,82],"class_list":["post-9647","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\/9647","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=9647"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9647\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9648"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9647"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9647"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9647"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}