{"id":195548,"date":"2025-06-18T22:41:08","date_gmt":"2025-06-18T22:41:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/195548\/"},"modified":"2025-06-18T22:41:08","modified_gmt":"2025-06-18T22:41:08","slug":"world-champion-who-forced-manny-pacquiao-into-retirement-delivers-verdict-on-mario-barrios-fight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/195548\/","title":{"rendered":"World Champion Who Forced Manny Pacquiao Into Retirement Delivers Verdict On Mario Barrios Fight"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.secondsout.com\/topic\/manny-pacquiao\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Manny Pacquiao<\/a> is just one month away from making his shock return to boxing.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.secondsout.com\/news\/shane-mosley-on-pacquiao-vs-barrios-fight\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The 46-year-old Filipino great is set to face reigning WBC world welterweight champion Mario Barrios<\/a> at the MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas on Saturday July 19.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018PacMan\u2019 has not fought as a professional since the summer of 2021, going on to announce his <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/athletic\/4202148\/2021\/08\/22\/yordenis-ugas-beats-manny-pacquiao-via-unanimous-decision-as-fight-goes-distance\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">retirement from the sport just a few months after he fell short in his attempt to dethrone former WBA welterweight champion Yordenis Ugas<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>As for Barrios, the 30-year-old from San Antonio will make just the second defence of his WBC crown at 147lbs, having held the title since last June when he was elevated from interim champion after Terence Crawford opted to vacate the strap ahead of his move up to light-middleweight to face Israil Madrimov.<\/p>\n<p>In an interview with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Z6VTvxuxbBU\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">BoxeoUrbanoNetwork<\/a>, Ugas, who has also shared the ring with Barrios, has had his say on the upcoming showdown between his former rival\u2019s, as he admits the latter finds himself in a \u2018lose-lose\u2019 situation when he faces \u2018PacMan\u2019 next month.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\u201cIt could be a lose-lose situation. If he wins, people will say, \u2018Pacquiao was old.\u2019 If he loses, they\u2019ll say, \u2018You lost to an old man.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBarrios is taking a big risk. I fought Pacquiao when he was coming off a huge win. He had just beaten the top welterweight at the time in 2019. This time it\u2019s harder. Pacquiao\u2019s coming off a four-year layoff and a loss. We\u2019ll see. It\u2019ll be a good fight, though.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Should Pacquiao be victorious, the 46-year-old will become the oldest world welterweight champion of all time, breaking his own record that was set back in 2019 when he defeated Keith Thurman to capture the WBA title at 147lbs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Manny Pacquiao is just one month away from making his shock return to boxing. The 46-year-old Filipino great&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":128204,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4108],"tags":[1935,79,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-195548","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"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114706781547328309","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195548","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=195548"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195548\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/128204"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=195548"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=195548"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=195548"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}