{"id":197483,"date":"2025-10-13T16:51:08","date_gmt":"2025-10-13T16:51:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/197483\/"},"modified":"2025-10-13T16:51:08","modified_gmt":"2025-10-13T16:51:08","slug":"emanuel-steward-didnt-hesitate-when-asked-if-manny-pacquiao-would-beat-hearns-leonard-or-duran","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/197483\/","title":{"rendered":"Emanuel Steward Didn&#8217;t Hesitate When Asked If Manny Pacquiao Would Beat Hearns, Leonard Or Duran"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Legendary trainer <a href=\"https:\/\/www.secondsout.com\/topic\/emanuel-steward\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Emanuel Steward<\/a> has summed up Filipino icon <a href=\"https:\/\/www.secondsout.com\/topic\/manny-pacquiao\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Manny Pacquiao<\/a>\u2018s chances against the iconic \u2018Four Kings\u2019 of boxing.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018The Four Kings\u2019 was made up of Roberto Duran, Sugar Ray Leonard, Thomas \u2018The Hitman\u2019 Hearns and Marvelous Marvin Hagler, a legendary quarter of fighters that took the sport by storm during the 1980s.<\/p>\n<p>They provided boxing fans with a number of memorable encounters throughout the course of that golden era, facing each other on at least one occasion each before the end of their respective professional careers.<\/p>\n<p>Another fighter that is considered to be one of the greatest fighters of all time is Filipino icon Pacquiao, who has won world titles in eight weight classes since making his professional debut way back in 1995.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.boxing247.com\/weblog\/archives\/133552\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">In a resurfaced interview<\/a>, legendary coach Steward shared his thoughts on how he believes Pacquiao would have fared against \u2018The Four Kings\u2019, as he claims the Filipino star would have had his \u2018hands full\u2019 in showdowns with the legendary quartet.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWell when you go back to Duran, Hearns, or Leonard, I could just stop right there. I mean Mayweather or Pacquiao, they would have their hands full. I just can\u2019t see Manny or Floyd beating those fighters.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Pacquiao made a sensational return to the ring back in July after taking a four year hiatus, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/boxing\/story\/_\/id\/45780217\/manny-pacquiao-46-battles-mario-barrios-majority-draw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">fighting to a majority decision draw against reigning WBC welterweight champion Mario Barrios in Las Vegas.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The 46-year-old looks set to return to the ring once again in January, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.secondsout.com\/news\/barrios-on-pacquiao-power-ahead-of-romero\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">with reports suggesting that he could face WBA welterweight champion Rolando \u2018Rolly\u2019 Romero<\/a> in a bid to break his own record as the oldest world welterweight champion of all time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Legendary trainer Emanuel Steward has summed up Filipino icon Manny Pacquiao\u2018s chances against the iconic \u2018Four Kings\u2019 of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":197484,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[2560,101,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-197483","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\/197483","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=197483"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197483\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/197484"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=197483"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=197483"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=197483"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}