{"id":238776,"date":"2025-11-02T01:31:07","date_gmt":"2025-11-02T01:31:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/238776\/"},"modified":"2025-11-02T01:31:07","modified_gmt":"2025-11-02T01:31:07","slug":"vasiliy-lomachenko-in-talks-to-make-comeback-against-boxing-legend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/238776\/","title":{"rendered":"Vasiliy Lomachenko In Talks To Make Comeback Against Boxing Legend"},"content":{"rendered":"

Ukrainian superstar Vasiliy Lomachenko<\/a> could be set to make a shock comeback to the sport against a record-breaking champion.<\/p>\n

The 37-year-old three-weight world champion announced his retirement from boxing back in June<\/a>, with his final ring appearance coming when he defeated Australia\u2019s George Kambosos Jr in May of 2024.<\/p>\n

Lomachenko racked up victories over the likes of Guillermo Rigondeaux, Richard Commey and Jorge Linares in his career, and suffered only a handful of defeats to Devin Haney, Orlando Salido and Teofimo Lopez.<\/p>\n

As rumours begin to circulate about a potential return to the ring for the Ukrainian great, it is being suggested that the 37-year-old could actually face eight-division world champion Manny Pacquiao<\/a> in the new year.<\/p>\n

Speaking to Seconds Out, Pacquiao revealed that there is a possibility that he could face Lomachenko in an exhibition bout next, as well as hinting at a potential rematch with Floyd Mayweather.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere\u2019s a lot of ongoing negotiations right now, so it\u2019s hard to plan what fight I\u2019m going to post. I\u2019m waiting for the final negotiation. But right now we have a lot of negotiation about my next fight. There\u2019s a possible rematch with Floyd Mayweather, and also there\u2019s a [exhibition] fight with Lomachenko and other fighters. So soon we are going to announce the final decision of what fight we\u2019re going to post.\u201d<\/p>\n

Pacquiao made a sensational return to the ring back in the summer, fighting to a draw against reigning WBC world welterweight champion Mario Barrios in Las Vegas.<\/p>\n

The 46-year-old is now in the process of finalising his next ring appearance, with the aforementioned Lomachenko and Mayweather believed to be the frontrunners.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ukrainian superstar Vasiliy Lomachenko could be set to make a shock comeback to the sport against a record-breaking…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":238777,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[2560,101,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-238776","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\/238776","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=238776"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238776\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/238777"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=238776"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=238776"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=238776"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}