{"id":103290,"date":"2025-08-30T14:46:07","date_gmt":"2025-08-30T14:46:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/103290\/"},"modified":"2025-08-30T14:46:07","modified_gmt":"2025-08-30T14:46:07","slug":"world-champion-who-beat-manny-pacquiao-predicts-rolly-romero-title-fight-i-favour-him","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/103290\/","title":{"rendered":"World Champion Who Beat Manny Pacquiao Predicts Rolly Romero Title Fight: &#8220;I Favour Him&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.secondsout.com\/topic\/manny-pacquiao\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Manny Pacquiao<\/a> continues to be linked to a showdown with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.secondsout.com\/topic\/rolly-romero\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Rolly Romero<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The Filipino icon made a sensational return to the sport at the age of 46 in July, when he challenged WBC welterweight champion Mario Barrios at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas.<\/p>\n<p>Many people felt Pacquiao had done enough on the night to once again become champion, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/boxing\/story\/_\/id\/45780217\/manny-pacquiao-46-battles-mario-barrios-majority-draw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">but in the end the bout was scored a majority decision draw.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>An immediate rematch between the two men was initially touted, but instead it is believed that \u2018PacMan\u2019 is looking at different options, with WBA welterweight champion Romero said to be one.<\/p>\n<p>Romero won the WBA Regular title in May with a shock unanimous decision win over Ryan Garcia, and has since been elevated to full champion after Jaron Ennis vacated his belt to move up to 154lbs.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.secondsout.com\/news\/robert-garcia-on-manny-pacquiao-vs-romero\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Many boxing figures have already weighed in on how a potential Pacquiao vs. Romero fight would go<\/a>, and now a former world champion who once beat \u2018PacMan\u2019 has offered his take.<\/p>\n<p>The man in question is Jeff Horn, the Australian who claimed a points victory over Pacquiao in July 2017, though it wasn\u2019t without its controversy, with most viewers criticising the decision and believing it was the wrong outcome.<\/p>\n<p>Having shared the ring with Pacquiao, Horn has now given his prediction for how the potential clash with Romero would go, <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/SDIBjKsuIP0?feature=shared\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">telling Fight Hub TV<\/a> he would still slightly edge towards his former rival.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYes, probably. I would favour him. Rolly is a lot younger, a prime Manny beats Romero, but at the stage now even though what Pacquiao showed against Barrios, it\u2019s hard for me to fathom at 46-years-old Manny Pacquiao doing what he\u2019s doing right now.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>With \u2018PacMan\u2019 planning to return to the ring before the end of the year, an announcement on who his next opponent will be is expected soon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Manny Pacquiao continues to be linked to a showdown with Rolly Romero. The Filipino icon made a sensational&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":103291,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[2560,101,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-103290","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-boxing","8":"tag-boxing","9":"tag-sports","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103290","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=103290"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103290\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/103291"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=103290"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=103290"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=103290"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}