{"id":759750,"date":"2026-09-04T13:30:08","date_gmt":"2026-09-04T13:30:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/759750\/"},"modified":"2026-09-04T13:30:08","modified_gmt":"2026-09-04T13:30:08","slug":"adrien-broner-predicts-shakur-stevenson-vs-manny-pacquiao-hes-going-to-cook-him","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/759750\/","title":{"rendered":"Adrien Broner predicts Shakur Stevenson vs Manny Pacquiao: “He’s going to cook him”"},"content":{"rendered":"

Adrien Broner<\/a> has considered how his former opponent, Manny Pacquiao<\/a>, will fare if the latest rumours prove accurate and he ends up facing Shakur Stevenson<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The Filipino legend returned from a near four-year layoff in July 2025, boxing to a contentious draw against then-WBC world welterweight champion Mario Barrios<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Indeed, the 47-year-old hardly disgraced himself, yet his performance was perhaps flattered by the fact it came against a fighter with dubious world-level credentials.<\/p>\n

In any case, many felt uneasy about the proposed rematch between Pacquiao and Floyd Mayweather, which was supposed to take place later this month in Las Vegas.<\/p>\n

With Mayweather having been plunged into further legal chaos, though, \u2018Pac Man\u2019 has seemingly spent the last few months attempting to find an alternative opponent.<\/p>\n

And now, rather bizarrely, a potential dance partner has been rumoured in the form of Stevenson, who would be made a mammoth favourite if they were to collide.<\/p>\n

The 29-year-old is, after all, one of the sport\u2019s finest pound-for-pound talents, who comes off a wide points victory over Teofimo Lopez<\/a> for the WBO world title in January.<\/p>\n

Since then, Stevenson has inked a lucrative deal with Dana White\u2019s Zuffa Boxing, yet it remains to be seen whether he will continue to campaign at 140lbs.<\/p>\n

In terms of a possible Pacquiao clash, meanwhile, Broner has told ESNEWS<\/a> that the American would win in emphatic fashion.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe gonna cook Manny. Manny will be too short for Shakur. Shakur is tall, has got length [and] uses his feet well. He punches harder than what people think; he\u2019s stronger than what people think.\u201d<\/p>\n

Pacquiao unanimously outpointed Broner in 2019, before edging a split decision against Keith Thurman and losing his WBA title to Yordenis Ugas<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Adrien Broner has considered how his former opponent, Manny Pacquiao, will fare if the latest rumours prove accurate…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":759751,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[2560,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-759750","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\/759750","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=759750"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/759750\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/759751"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=759750"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=759750"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=759750"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}