{"id":199849,"date":"2025-06-20T12:30:09","date_gmt":"2025-06-20T12:30:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/199849\/"},"modified":"2025-06-20T12:30:09","modified_gmt":"2025-06-20T12:30:09","slug":"manny-pacquiao-reacts-to-lomachenko-announcing-retirement-ahead-of-his-own-world-title-comeback","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/199849\/","title":{"rendered":"Manny Pacquiao Reacts To Lomachenko Announcing Retirement Ahead Of His Own World Title Comeback"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.secondsout.com\/topic\/manny-pacquiao\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Manny Pacquiao<\/a> is on the verge of making a sensational comeback to the sport.<\/p>\n<p>It was confirmed at the end of last month that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.secondsout.com\/news\/teofimo-lopez-on-manny-pacquiao-vs-barrios\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">46-year-old Pacquiao will face reigning WBC welterweight champion Mario Barrios<\/a> at the MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas on Saturday July 19.<\/p>\n<p>Another big announcement also came on June 5 when <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.co.uk\/boxing\/story\/_\/id\/45457045\/boxing-star-vasiliy-lomachenko-decides-retire-age-37\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Ukrainian great Vasiliy Lomachenko confirmed his retirement from the sport at 37-years-old.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Lomachenko is often regarded as being one of the most technically gifted fighters of all time, proving his credentials during his accomplished amateur career before he entered the paid ranks back in 2013.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/a7nwn6qfleE?si=bld7XhSFC2UWX66p&amp;t=146\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">In an interview with Fight Hype<\/a>, Pacquiao spoke fondly of \u2018Loma\u2019, as he admits the 37-year-old \u2018had reasons\u2019 to finally walk away from the sport.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\u201cHe\u2019s champion and he\u2019s a good boxer so he has a reason why he\u2019s retired.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Lomachenko became a world champion in just his third professional fight when he captured the vacant WBO featherweight title with a victory over Gary Russell Jr.<\/p>\n<p>He made the move up to super-featherweight after a handful of defences, dethroning WBO champion Rocky Martinez with an explosive fifth round stoppage.<\/p>\n<p>He went on to become the unified WBC, WBA and WBO lightweight champion in 2019 before suffering the first defeat of his career to Teofimo Lopez a year later.<\/p>\n<p>After falling short against undisputed lightweight champion Devin Haney two years ago, Lomachenko recaptured a version of the lightweight title when he defeated Australia\u2019s George Kambosos Jr in what would go on to be the final outing of the Ukrainian icon\u2019s storied career.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Manny Pacquiao is on the verge of making a sensational comeback to the sport. It was confirmed at&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":199850,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4108],"tags":[1935,79,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-199849","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\/114715703814790416","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199849","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=199849"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199849\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/199850"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=199849"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=199849"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=199849"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}