{"id":185123,"date":"2025-10-08T09:23:37","date_gmt":"2025-10-08T09:23:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/185123\/"},"modified":"2025-10-08T09:23:37","modified_gmt":"2025-10-08T09:23:37","slug":"manny-pacquiao-announces-his-next-fight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/185123\/","title":{"rendered":"Manny Pacquiao Announces His Next Fight"},"content":{"rendered":"

Manny Pacquiao is set to return to the ring again in 2026.<\/p>\n

The 46-year-old has delivered fans one of the most impressive campaigns in the history of the sport, winning a version of a title in an incredible eight weight divisions. Along the way, Pacquiao has beaten the likes of Miguel Cotto, Oscar De La Hoya and Juan Manuel Marquez, though he hung up the gloves after a bruising loss to Yordenis Ugas in 2021.<\/p>\n

The Filipino icon ended his retirement to face Mario Barrios in July, attempting to win the WBC Welterweight World Title but only managing a draw on the scorecards.<\/a><\/p>\n

In a video credited to Indistry Media, Pacquiao shared details of his next bout.In a video credited to Indistry Media, Pacquiao shared details of his next bout.<\/a><\/p>\n

\u201cHello to all my boxing fans. I\u2019m excited to let you know that I will be returning to the ring January 24th in Las Vegas \u2026 It is going to be an exciting and special event. Stay tuned, more news to come on my opponent in the next few days. Thank you everyone.\u201d<\/p>\n

The front-runner for the fight remains Rolando Romero, the WBA Welterweight World Champion who won the Interim belt in an upset against Ryan Garcia before being elevated to full champion after Jarn Ennis vacated that position to move up in weight.<\/p>\n

If so, Pacquiao will once again attempt to break the record of the oldest 147lbs champion. Other names that have been mentioned are Garcia \u2013 who hasn\u2019t completed since that loss to \u2018Rolly\u2019 Romero \u2013 as well as Gervonta Davis and Conor Benn, though both of them have fights scheduled.<\/p>\n

\u2018PacMan\u2019s team have all but ruled out a rematch with Barrios due to him not bringing enough excitement to the table.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Manny Pacquiao is set to return to the ring again in 2026. The 46-year-old has delivered fans one…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":185124,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[2560,101,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-185123","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\/185123","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=185123"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185123\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/185124"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=185123"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=185123"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=185123"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}