{"id":38118,"date":"2025-08-01T12:40:07","date_gmt":"2025-08-01T12:40:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/38118\/"},"modified":"2025-08-01T12:40:07","modified_gmt":"2025-08-01T12:40:07","slug":"boxing-superstar-vows-to-dominate-manny-pacquiao-in-december-fight-ill-ko-him-like-marquez","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/38118\/","title":{"rendered":"Boxing Superstar Vows To ‘Dominate’ Manny Pacquiao In December Fight: “I’ll KO Him Like Marquez”"},"content":{"rendered":"

Manny Pacquiao<\/a> is being pursued for a showdown with a former world title challenger.<\/p>\n

The 46-year-old from the Philippines made a sensational return to the ring earlier in the month when he challenged reigning WBC welterweight champion Mario Barrios at the MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas, Nevada.<\/p>\n

Pacquiao rolled back the years against the former champion, putting on an impressive display in what was his first ring appearance in 4-years, but the Filipino great ultimately fell short as the fight was declared a majority decision draw.<\/a><\/p>\n

With rumours that \u2018Pac-Man\u2019 will be continuing with his career after facing Barrios, the 46-year-old could already have his next opponent lined up after he was called out by an American superstar this week.<\/p>\n

In an interview with The Ring Magazine, former WBC interim lightweight champion Ryan Garcia<\/a> expressed an interest in a showdown with the \u2018legendary\u2019 Pacquiao.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019ve been interested in fighting the legendary Manny Pacquiao for a while now. It\u2019s something that you dream of. There were talks in the past of us fighting, and then it fell through. There is a history there. I am always up for the challenge. I would be lying if I said I am not interested. If Manny wants to throw down, let\u2019s do it.<\/p>\n

\u201cManny\u2019s style fits perfectly into my style. I\u2019m an extremely good counter-puncher. Pacquiao knows that and that\u2019s why most of the time he doesn\u2019t mention me as a guy he would want to fight. He lunges in a lot and he knows I have the quick left hook.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe\u2019s been successful with his style, but there are chances for mistakes, and for me to connect when he comes in. I know that I would present a lot of problems for Pacquiao. I would dominate him. I would capitalize on Manny\u2019s mistakes better than other guys. I would knock him out like Juan Manuel Marquez \u2013 all due respect to the legend Manny, though.\u201d<\/p>\n

Garcia is actually coming off the back of a surprising defeat to WBA Regular welterweight champion Rolando \u2018Rolly\u2019 Romero<\/a>, who beat the 26-year-old via unanimous decision at Times Square in New York City on May 2.<\/p>\n

He has named Pacquiao and Romero as his targets for December in Las Vegas.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Manny Pacquiao is being pursued for a showdown with a former world title challenger. The 46-year-old from the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":16616,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[2560,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-38118","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-boxing","tag-boxing","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38118","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=38118"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38118\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16616"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38118"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38118"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38118"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}