{"id":244710,"date":"2025-11-05T05:16:07","date_gmt":"2025-11-05T05:16:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/244710\/"},"modified":"2025-11-05T05:16:07","modified_gmt":"2025-11-05T05:16:07","slug":"manny-pacquiao-now-focused-on-facing-one-man-next-and-its-no-longer-floyd-mayweather","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/244710\/","title":{"rendered":"Manny Pacquiao Now ‘Focused’ On Facing One Man Next And It’s No Longer Floyd Mayweather"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Manny Pacquiao<\/a> vs. Floyd Mayweather<\/a> rematch may not be happening after all.<\/p>\n

It was revealed in the past week that the legendary duo were in talks for a second meeting<\/a>, over a decade on from when they first clashed back in May 2015.<\/p>\n

It was Mayweather who was victorious by unanimous decision on that occasion, but Pacquiao has long chased a rematch with his rival, after claiming he was suffering from an injury in the bout.<\/p>\n

Any hope of seeing the pair do battle again seemed to disappear when Mayweather retired in 2017, but after \u2018Pacman\u2019 made a sensational return to the sport in July, rumours began to swirl about them colliding again.<\/p>\n

Pacquiao himself confirmed recently that negotiations with Mayweather had taken place<\/a>, but it has now been reported that another man is most likely to be facing the Filipino icon next.<\/p>\n

According to Chris Mannix<\/a>, Pacquiao is on the brink of agreeing a deal to challenge for a world title next, against an opponent that he had been lined up to face before the Mayweather talk began.<\/p>\n

\u201cManny Pacquiao, I\u2019m told, who recently returned to the Philippines, is focused on closing a 147-pound title showdown with Rolly Romero.\u201d<\/p>\n

Rolando Romero is the current WBA welterweight champion, having been elevated from the Regular belt he won with a unanimous decision victory over Ryan Garcia at Times Square in New York in May.<\/p>\n

The WBA had recently ordered Romero to face mandatory challenger Shakhram Giyasov next, but if the bout against Pacquiao does indeed come to fruition, it may mean a deal could have been reached for Giyasov to step aside.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Manny Pacquiao vs. Floyd Mayweather rematch may not be happening after all. It was revealed in the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":244711,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[2560,101,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-244710","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\/244710","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=244710"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244710\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/244711"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=244710"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=244710"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=244710"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}