{"id":576608,"date":"2026-05-10T15:39:09","date_gmt":"2026-05-10T15:39:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/576608\/"},"modified":"2026-05-10T15:39:09","modified_gmt":"2026-05-10T15:39:09","slug":"former-world-champion-who-says-he-beat-mayweather-makes-his-pacquiao-rematch-prediction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/576608\/","title":{"rendered":"Former world champion who says he beat Mayweather makes his Pacquiao rematch prediction"},"content":{"rendered":"

Former lightweight world champion Jose Luis Castillo, who arguably gave Floyd Mayweather his toughest challenge in 2002, has offered a prediction for his former foe\u2019s rematch with Manny Pacquiao<\/a>.<\/p>\n

It was revealed earlier this year that the pair were set to collide at The Sphere in Las Vegas on September 19<\/a>, only for increasing uncertainty to surround both the date and venue.<\/p>\n

Now, it has been reported by Mike Coppinger that the two pound-for-pound legends have reached a new deal<\/a>, agreeing to square off at the T-Mobile Arena, Las Vegas, on September 25.<\/p>\n

Still, their professional rematch is set to be streamed live on Netflix, with Mayweather putting his iconic 50-0 record on the line.<\/p>\n

Their first encounter, in 2015, saw the American emerge with a comprehensive unanimous decision victory<\/a>, headlining the most lucrative boxing event of all time.<\/p>\n

Since then, though, his only professional outings have come against Andre Berto and Conor McGregor, who he dispatched with a 10th-round finish in 2017.<\/p>\n

Pacquiao, on the other hand, has entered eight fully-sanctioned bouts over the past decade, with the most recent of these ending in a controversial draw against Mario Barrios last July.<\/p>\n

But despite that, former Mayweather opponent Castillo, who says he should have got the decision when they first met in April 2002<\/a>, has told ESNEWS<\/a> that, while both are \u201cold men\u201d, \u2018Money\u2019 should still have the edge over his rival.<\/p>\n

Mayweather and Castillo shared the ring on two occasions in 2002, with the Mexican ultimately losing by unanimous decision in each of them.<\/p>\n

And yet, if the three judges had scored their first encounter for Castillo, as many others did, then Mayweather would not be defending his 50-0 record at 49 years old.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Former lightweight world champion Jose Luis Castillo, who arguably gave Floyd Mayweather his toughest challenge in 2002, has…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":576609,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[2560,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-576608","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\/576608","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=576608"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/576608\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/576609"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=576608"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=576608"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=576608"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}