{"id":666381,"date":"2026-06-30T16:50:09","date_gmt":"2026-06-30T16:50:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/666381\/"},"modified":"2026-06-30T16:50:09","modified_gmt":"2026-06-30T16:50:09","slug":"manny-pacquiao-targeted-for-world-title-fight-against-two-weight-champion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/666381\/","title":{"rendered":"Manny Pacquiao targeted for world title fight against two weight champion"},"content":{"rendered":"

Manny Pacquiao<\/a> could be presented with a world title opportunity following the postponement of his rematch with Floyd Mayweather.<\/p>\n

Their second encounter was scheduled to take place this September, over a decade removed from Mayweather\u2019s unanimous decision victory over the Filipino.<\/p>\n

It was reported last week, however, that Pacquiao has been left without an opponent after his American rival was hit with a $4.65m lawsuit by CSI Sports Events.<\/p>\n

As Mayweather attempts to navigate this situation, it remains to be seen whether the \u2018Pac Man\u2019 rematch will even take place, let alone be rescheduled for a date in 2027.<\/p>\n

In the meantime, MP Promotions CEO Jas Mathur has insisted that Pacquiao is now searching for a new dance partner<\/a> to face later this year.<\/p>\n

One potential opponent could be newly-crowned IBF welterweight champion Liam Paro, who dethroned Lewis Crocker with a unanimous decision victory<\/a> last week.<\/p>\n

In doing so, the Aussie became a two-weight world champion in impressive fashion, with his promoter, George Rose of No Limit Boxing, insisting at the post-fight press conference that he would happily welcome Pacquiao back to Queensland, Australia.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think the two best divisions in boxing are the welterweight and junior middleweight divisions \u2026 the champions that exist there \u2013 Devin Haney, Rolly Romero, Ryan Garcia.<\/p>\n

\u201cI would love to have any one of them down here, any day of the week.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey\u2019ve tossed up the likes of Manny Pacquiao, who is still floating around in the welterweight division wanting to fight. [It] would be great to bring that down here.\u201d<\/p>\n

Pacquiao\u2019s last trip to Queensland \u2013 at least in a boxing sense \u2013 saw him defend his WBO welterweight title with a unanimous decision victory over Jeff Horn in 2017.<\/p>\n

With the 47-year-old having never held the IBF title at 147lbs, though, he could be tempted by another assignment Down Under, this time against the 17-years-younger Paro, where a win would see Pacquiao break his own record as the oldest welterweight world champion in history.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Manny Pacquiao could be presented with a world title opportunity following the postponement of his rematch with Floyd…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":645680,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[2560,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-666381","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\/666381","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=666381"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/666381\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/645680"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=666381"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=666381"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=666381"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}