{"id":478430,"date":"2025-10-06T16:02:11","date_gmt":"2025-10-06T16:02:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/478430\/"},"modified":"2025-10-06T16:02:11","modified_gmt":"2025-10-06T16:02:11","slug":"manny-pacquiao-targeting-january-title-shot-against-rolando-romero","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/478430\/","title":{"rendered":"Manny Pacquiao targeting January title shot against Rolando Romero"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Manny Pacquiao may have returned to boxing last July to an unfulfilling draw against WBC titleholder Mario Barrios, but his championship aspirations aren\u2019t finished yet. While it\u2019s been rumored for some time now that Pacquiao might target another welterweight titleholder in Rolando \u2018Rolly\u2019 Romero, based on the premise that it\u2019s a very winnable fight for him, Pacquiao\u2019s advisor <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/boxing\/story\/_\/id\/46468530\/rolando-romero-perfect-foe-manny-pacquiao-adviser-says\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Sean Gibbons admits that it\u2019s exactly the kind of fight they want<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"duet--article--blockquote _1teeyfa0 ls9zuh9\">\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup _1teeyfa8 ls9zuh1\">\u201c2026 will be a new year with new beginnings and hopefully a new opponent. I think the perfect time for Manny to make a statement to come back is January, and I think the perfect opponent is Rolly Romero.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">If Pacquiao, 46, manages to secure a fight with Romero it will put him right back in line for a chance to become the oldest welterweight champion in history. That in and of itself makes for a great story, even if Romero is widely considered to be perhaps an even weaker champion than Mario Barrios.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Romero (17-2, 13 KOs) is most recently coming off of a unanimous decision win over Ryan Garcia back in May that was probably his biggest win to date, even if not the most significant.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Manny Pacquiao may have returned to boxing last July to an unfulfilling draw against WBC titleholder Mario Barrios,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":478431,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4108],"tags":[1935,4496,79,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-478430","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-boxing","8":"tag-boxing","9":"tag-boxing-news","10":"tag-sports","11":"tag-uk","12":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115328066836434526","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/478430","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=478430"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/478430\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/478431"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=478430"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=478430"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=478430"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}