{"id":811100,"date":"2026-10-23T04:52:14","date_gmt":"2026-10-23T04:52:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/811100\/"},"modified":"2026-10-23T04:52:14","modified_gmt":"2026-10-23T04:52:14","slug":"fury-vs-joshua-joe-cordina-agrees-terms-to-face-great-manny-pacquiao-in-cardiff-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/811100\/","title":{"rendered":"Fury vs Joshua: Joe Cordina agrees terms to face great Manny Pacquiao in Cardiff"},"content":{"rendered":"

Pacquiao has not fought since July 2025, having returned from his second attempt at retirement.<\/p>\n

But the Filipino icon would still be a draw for the huge television audience expected for the fight, that will be broadcast globally by streaming giants Netflix.<\/p>\n

But the emergence of Cardiff-born Cordina, 34, as an opponent will also provide a hometown flavour to the show.<\/p>\n

A former IBF super-featherweight champion, Cordina had been scheduled to face American Abduallah Mason for the WBO lightweight title in Cleveland in July when he was denied a US visa.<\/p>\n

Cordina had remained in training while standing trial for allegations of assault, eventually being cleared of all charges<\/a>.<\/p>\n

That verdict has paved the way for a place on the Joshua-Fury bill, with Cordina eager to resume his career on what would be a huge opportunity in his own city.<\/p>\n

It would be the first time Pacquiao has faced a British opponent since he beat Ricky Hatton in Las Vegas in 2009.<\/p>\n

Pacquiao’s last fight was a failed bid to take Mario Barrios’ welterweight title, the bout ending in a majority draw four years after retiring to focus on politics in is homeland.<\/p>\n

He has a record of 62 wins from 73 fights and had been scheduled to face unbeaten Floyd Mayweather in September, but the rematch of their 2015 meeting was postponed indefinitely in June.<\/p>\n

Cordina has previously fought on the undercard of Fury’s first fight with Oleksandr Usyk, losing his IBF title to Belfast’s Anthony Cacace in Riyadh in May 2024.<\/p>\n

It would represent the former Olympian’s first fight in Cardiff since he regained the belt against Shavkat Rahimov the previous year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Pacquiao has not fought since July 2025, having returned from his second attempt at retirement. But the Filipino…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":811101,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[2560,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-811100","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\/811100","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=811100"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/811100\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/811101"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=811100"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=811100"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=811100"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}