{"id":225345,"date":"2025-06-30T01:00:20","date_gmt":"2025-06-30T01:00:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/225345\/"},"modified":"2025-06-30T01:00:20","modified_gmt":"2025-06-30T01:00:20","slug":"manny-pacquiao-undercard-will-see-the-son-of-a-legend-rematch-one-of-boxings-giants-after-bloodbath-first-encounter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/225345\/","title":{"rendered":"Manny Pacquiao undercard will see the son of a legend rematch one of boxing&#8217;s giants after bloodbath first encounter"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Manny Pacquiao will face Mario Barrios for the world title at the age of 46, but the main event isn\u2019t the only must-see fight.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloodyknockout.com\/tag\/manny-pacquiao\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Manny Pacquiao<\/a> hopes to win his 13th world title after having not fought since 2021, and not won since 2019.<\/p>\n<p>The legendary Filipino fighter will return on July 19th, as part of a stacked card that will top off a huge day of boxing.<\/p>\n<p>Elsewhere on the card, a legend\u2019s son will take on a much-needed rematch after one fight of his turned into a bloody war.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"682\" loading=\"lazy\"  src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/GettyImages-2120160022-1024x682.jpg\" alt=\"Tim Tszyu takes a left straight to the face from Sebastian Fundora, both men are covered in blood\" class=\"wp-image-21873\" \/>Photo by Tayfun Coskun\/Anadolu via Getty ImagesTim Tszyu will rematch Sebastian Fundora on Manny Pacquiao\u2019s undercard<\/p>\n<p>On the card, Tim Tszyu, son of Kostya Tszyu, will rematch one of the super-welterweight division\u2019s tallest fighters, Sebastian Fundora.<\/p>\n<p>Fundora, who stands at 6\u20196\u2033, faced Tszyu for the first time in 2024, in a fight many think Tszyu was unlucky not to win.<\/p>\n<p>Tszyu sustained a cut early on that impaired his vision, turning <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloodyknockout.com\/features\/boxings-tallest-world-champion-fought-in-bloody-war-after-falling-victim-to-huge-upset-ko\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Fundora vs Tszyu into one of the bloodiest wars<\/a> boxing had seen for some time.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>Tszyu dropped a split decision loss, and lost his WBO world title in the process.<\/p>\n<p>After the defeat, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloodyknockout.com\/news\/hes-mentally-messed-up-timothy-bradley-gives-honest-verdict-on-tim-tszyus-devastating-defeat-to-bakhram-murtazaliev\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Tszyu was blasted in three rounds by Bakhram Murtazaliev<\/a>, who he challenged for the IBF title.<\/p>\n<p>He has since had a win against Joey Spencer, whom he stopped in four rounds. Fundora, meanwhile, has had just one fight since, a four-round stoppage of Chordale Booker.<\/p>\n<p>The pair will face off for Fundora\u2019s WBC and WBO titles in the co-main event.<\/p>\n<p>Manny Pacquiao\u2019s undercard features one more high-profile rematch<\/p>\n<p>Fundora and Tszyu aren\u2019t the only two fighters rematching on Pacquiao\u2019s undercard, as former <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloodyknockout.com\/tag\/gervonta-davis\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Gervonta Davis<\/a> opponent, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloodyknockout.com\/features\/isaac-cruz-ruthlessly-stopped-former-world-champion-who-gave-terence-crawford-one-of-his-hardest-fights\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Isaac \u2018Pitbull\u2019 Cruz, who stopped Yuriorkis Gamboa<\/a>, will rematch Angel Fierro on the card too.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>Cruz moved to 27-3-1 after defeating 23-2-2 Fierro in his last fight. <\/p>\n<p>Though he won by a significant margin on the scorecards, the pair will rematch, though no title is on the line, with Cruz having lost his world title to Jose Valenzeula by split decision last year.<\/p>\n<p>He won the title with an eighth-round TKO of Rolly Romero.<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Manny Pacquiao will face Mario Barrios for the world title at the age of 46, but the main&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":225346,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4108],"tags":[1935,27372,79,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-225345","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-boxing","8":"tag-boxing","9":"tag-manny-pacquiao","10":"tag-sports","11":"tag-uk","12":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114769613724922934","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225345","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=225345"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225345\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/225346"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=225345"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=225345"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=225345"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}