{"id":536820,"date":"2026-04-17T23:47:07","date_gmt":"2026-04-17T23:47:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/536820\/"},"modified":"2026-04-17T23:47:07","modified_gmt":"2026-04-17T23:47:07","slug":"manny-pacquiao-reveals-mayweather-has-made-his-final-decision-on-rematch-terms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/536820\/","title":{"rendered":"Manny Pacquiao reveals Mayweather has made his final decision on rematch terms"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/boxingnewsonline.net\/boxer\/manny-pacquiao\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Manny Pacquiao<\/a> claims to have received a definitive response from Floyd Mayweather, who recently claimed their upcoming rematch is an exhibition.<\/p>\n<p>Their second encounter is set to take place at The Sphere, Las Vegas, on September 19, with the original announcement stating it would be a professional bout.<\/p>\n<p>As such, fans were all under the impression that Mayweather would be putting his 50-0 record on the line, only for the American to swiftly lower everybody\u2019s expectations.<\/p>\n<p>The 49-year-old <a href=\"https:\/\/boxingnewsonline.net\/news\/mayweather-denies-pacquiao-fight-is-pro\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">declaried their rematch would instead be an exhibition<\/a>, though Pacquiao has denied this and insists it will be a fully sanctioned contest.<\/p>\n<p>As it happens, Mayweather already had two non-competitive affairs scheduled with Mike Tyson and Greek kickboxer Mike Zambidis, though an official announcement regarding these exhibitions is yet to emerge.<\/p>\n<p>In any case, Pacquiao fully expects to face his old rival later this year, reportedly telling journalist Lance Pugmire that \u201cthe fight is on\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking with <a href=\"https:\/\/youtube.com\/shorts\/8iO6cFM3IxI?si=eFWJldpDD6gLyK1i\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">ProBox TV<\/a>, Pugmire recalled his conversation with the Filipino and reported his understanding that Mayweather has agreed to a professional contest.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPacquiao reached out to me [on Tuesday] \u2013 we talked on WhatsApp, actually \u2013 and he said: \u2018The fight is on. Floyd has come to the table; everything\u2019s fine. We\u2019re good to go\u2019.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe know that Floyd always wants things on his terms, so he\u2019s going to \u2018formally\u2019 announce it whenever he\u2019s ready to.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut, according to Pacquiao, they are happy with where they\u2019re at right now with this deal, and having the confirmation from Floyd that the fight is going to be a real fight.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.co.uk\/boxing\/story\/_\/id\/12816686\/mayweather-dominates-pacquiao-impressive-victory\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Mayweather unanimously outpointed Pacquiao in 2015<\/a>, back when their largely one-sided welterweight encounter became the most lucrative event in boxing history.<\/p>\n<p>More recently, \u2018Money\u2019 has been involved in a series of exhibitions while Pacquiao ended a near four-year layoff last July, holding then-WBC world welterweight champion Mario Barrios to a controversial draw.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Manny Pacquiao claims to have received a definitive response from Floyd Mayweather, who recently claimed their upcoming rematch&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":510487,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[2560,101,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-536820","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\/536820","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=536820"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/536820\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/510487"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=536820"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=536820"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=536820"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}