Though a rematch is a possibility, Pacquiao may also look to bigger names should he continue his comeback as he has said he will. Active world champions may be hesitant to call him out as, despite an impressive performance for his age, he is many years out of his prime.<\/p>\n
If Pacquiao wants to fight a man closer to his age, fellow Hall of Famer Shane Mosley put his name forward in an interview with Seconds Out.<\/p>\n
\n\u201cThe motivation is to prove people wrong. To let them know that I\u2019m the best. Sugar Shane Mosley is still here. I\u2019m not an old grandpa, I\u2019m still available and ready to fight. Manny Pacquiao is 46 years old, he just fought to a draw, people thought he won or whatever, he\u2019s proving that age is just a number. It\u2019s your mentality. I want to prove that.<\/p>\n
\u201cActually, I want to fight Manny Pacquiao next, and then the winner fights Floyd Mayweather. I want to show the world I\u2019m still here. You can\u2019t get rid of me. When I want to leave, I\u2019ll leave. I\u2019m not ready to leave. I love boxing \u2026 100% percent.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n
Mosley and Pacquiao faced off back in May of 2011 for \u2018PacMan\u2019s WBO Welterweight World Title, with the champion winning a wide unanimous decision to retain the belt.<\/p>\n
\u2018Sugar\u2019 Shane, a three-weight world champion, would fight his last professional bout in 2016 \u2013 a loss to David Avanesyan \u2013 boasting a record of 49 wins from 61 fights. However, the 56-year-old makes his own return to the ring, albeit on a much lower scale than Pacquiao\u2019s, at the Indigo O2 on July 25, facing Matt Floyd.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Manny Pacquiao made his return to the ring this past weekend, fighting to a majority draw against WBC…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":284067,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4108],"tags":[1935,79,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-284066","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\/114900208393720008","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/284066","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=284066"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/284066\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/284067"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=284066"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=284066"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=284066"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}