{"id":102447,"date":"2025-08-30T05:04:12","date_gmt":"2025-08-30T05:04:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/102447\/"},"modified":"2025-08-30T05:04:12","modified_gmt":"2025-08-30T05:04:12","slug":"manny-pacquiaos-world-title-opponent-lost-to-a-27-17-1-journeyman-in-final-fight-before-return-to-africa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/102447\/","title":{"rendered":"Manny Pacquiao&#8217;s world title opponent lost to a 27-17-1 journeyman in final fight before return to Africa"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Manny Pacquiao returned to the ring at the age of 46 and was unlucky not to get a win over Mario Barrios.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloodyknockout.com\/tag\/manny-pacquiao\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Manny Pacquiao<\/a> has still not secured a win since his 2019 close-shave with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloodyknockout.com\/news\/manny-pacquiaos-inactive-foe-will-have-his-hands-full-against-the-towering-inferno-says-former-world-champion\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Keith Thurman, who is facing Sebastian Fundora next<\/a>, and has had two unsuccessful comeback attempts, with one ending in a loss and the most recent ending in a draw.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloodyknockout.com\/news\/manny-pacquiao-told-to-face-two-weight-champion-gervonta-davis-flattened-by-floyd-mayweathers-uncle\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Pacquiao, who could face Rolly Romero next<\/a>, is now 46, and despite almost defeating a world champion, albeit a weak one, he is still a shell of his former self \u2013 the Pac-Man who dismantled <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloodyknockout.com\/tag\/ricky-hatton\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Ricky Hatton<\/a>, Miguel Cotto, Antonio Margarito, and more.<\/p>\n<p>It was in 2010, after his win over Cotto, that Pacquiao fought in a truly one-sided bout against a challenger who would go on to lose against a journeyman just years later.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" loading=\"lazy\"  src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/GettyImages-1097220402-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"Manny Pacquiao in the ring during his WBA welterweight title fight with Adrien Broner in January, 2019\" class=\"wp-image-28605\" \/>Photo by Christian Petersen\/Getty ImagesManny Pacquiao defeated Joshua Clottey five years before Clottey\u2019s journeyman loss<\/p>\n<p>Off the back of his win over Cotto, Pacquiao faced 35-3 Joshua Clottey.<\/p>\n<p>Clottey had lost only to Margarito, Carlos Baldomir, and, in the fight before facing Pacquiao, Cotto by split decision. He also held a win over Zab Judah.<\/p>\n<p>Despite winning the IBF world title and barely losing in his WBO bid against Cotto, Clottey was outclassed drastically by Pacquiao, who dragged him to a lopsided unanimous decision loss.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"693\" loading=\"lazy\"  src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/GettyImages-107205266-1024x693.jpg\" alt=\"Manny Pacquiao sits upon a teammate's shoulders with a belt around his waist celebrating defeating Joshua Clottey\" class=\"wp-image-21468\" \/>Photo credit should read Chris Cozzone\/AFP via Getty Images<\/p>\n<p>Clottey fought for five more years before receiving a clear sign to hang up the gloves.<\/p>\n<p>That sign came in 2015 when he lost by unanimous decision to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloodyknockout.com\/features\/ive-gotta-stop-it-your-sons-gonna-die-trainer-of-gennadiy-golovkin-opponent-pleads-ahead-of-world-title-stoppage\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Gabriel Rosado, a journeyman who Gennady Golovkin brutally beat<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Rosado was 21-9 at the time, but now sits at 27-17-1. Clottey returned in 2019 with two stoppage wins in Accra, Ghana, and has not fought since.<\/p>\n<p>Manny Pacquiao\u2019s win over Joshua Clottey was the start of a dark period for Pac-Man<\/p>\n<p>Though Pacquiao got the win, and in a one-sided fashion, it marked the beginning of a period in Pacquiao\u2019s career where the legend was unable to score any knockout wins.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"673\" loading=\"lazy\"  src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/GettyImages-999208204-1024x673.jpg\" alt=\"Close up of Lucas Matthysse after being dropped by Manny Pacquiao, who stands in the background\" class=\"wp-image-17251\" \/>Photo credit should read MOHD RASFAN\/AFP via Getty Images<\/p>\n<p>The drought began with his decision win over Clottey, and continued for eight years.<\/p>\n<p>In fact, the only man Pacquiao stopped in the last 15 years of his career was Lucas Matthysse, who Pacquiao stopped in seven rounds.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloodyknockout.com\/throwbacks\/manny-pacquiao-scored-six-knockdowns-in-2014-beatdown-but-failed-to-close-the-show-as-knockout-drought-continued\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Pacquiao looked sure to end his KO drought against Chris Algieri<\/a> after dropping him six times, but no stoppage ever came.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Manny Pacquiao returned to the ring at the age of 46 and was unlucky not to get a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":102448,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[2560,49910,6100,101,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-102447","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-boxing","8":"tag-boxing","9":"tag-joshua-clottey","10":"tag-manny-pacquiao","11":"tag-sports","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom","14":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102447","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=102447"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102447\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/102448"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=102447"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=102447"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=102447"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}