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Manny Pacquiao is set to come out of retirement for a shot at a world championship beltCredit: Getty 2<\/p>\n Despite running a campaign for a Senator of the Philippines, Pacquiao will return to the ring in JulyCredit: Getty<\/p>\n However, WBC chief Mauricio Sulaiman confirmed the return of the ring legend when speaking to Boxing King Media<\/a> in Saudi Arabia<\/a>.<\/p>\n He said: “At this time, Mario Barrios is going to face Manny Pacquiao<\/a> in July. He (Pacquiao) wants to retire as the welterweight champion, so he’s fighting in the welterweight division.”<\/p>\n Asked why Pacquiao was being allowed to come straight out of retirement and have a shot at a title, Sulaiman explained it was because the WBC have written rules stating a notable former champion could request a title fight coming out of retirement.<\/p>\n He referenced Sugar Ray Leonard being retired for four years when he came out of retirement to fight Marvin Hagler, a fight which he won.<\/p>\n Sulaiman said: “We do have that provision in the rules. A legendary champion with the credentials of Pacquiao [can fight].<\/p>\n “He has been medically cleared and licensed, so we have voted in favour to allow that fight to happen.”<\/p>\n Pacquiao’s advisor, Sean Gibbons, had denied his sensational boxing<\/a> comeback in an interview with Action Network<\/a> explaining that he was fully focused on his election campaign as a Senator of the Philippines\u00a0<\/p>\n In an interview published on Friday, he said: ”\u00a0There is no Manny Pacquiao fights (scheduled for this year). These reports on fighting Mario Barrios are not right. <\/p>\n BEST ONLINE CASINOS – TOP SITES IN THE UK<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n “Manny Pacquiao is running for Senator of the Philippines on May 12. He has another election after he\u2019s done with this election. After, he\u2019ll decide if he wants the box again. <\/p>\n “That\u2019s it, the election is the most important thing in his life not boxing. There\u2019s been discussion for the last year and a half about fighting Mario Barrios. <\/p>\n Chris Eubank Sr held my hand in hospital and told me I’m the superior fighter, says defeated Conor Benn<\/p>\n “I have no idea why (there is speculation about a fight between Pacquiao and Barrios).”<\/p>\n A world championship welterweight belt is eventually being eyed by British boxer Conor Benn<\/a>, despite his recent defeat to Chris Eubank<\/a> Jr at middleweight.<\/p>\n Benn flew out to New York<\/a> City in the United States<\/a> to see Ryan Garcia<\/a> take on Rolando Romero in Times Square, ending in a shock points loss for Garcia.<\/p>\n Despite not fighting at welterweight for three years now, Benn had said he would “happily” fight Garcia when speaking ahead of the bout.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"MANNY PACQUIAO has come out of retirement at the age of 46 and is targeting a world title…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":70953,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4108],"tags":[1935,21610,27372,8310,79,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-70952","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-boxing","8":"tag-boxing","9":"tag-conor-benn","10":"tag-manny-pacquiao","11":"tag-section-sportboxing","12":"tag-sports","13":"tag-uk","14":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114443527398165734","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70952","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=70952"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70952\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/70953"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=70952"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=70952"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=70952"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"Manny](\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/legendary-filipino-boxer-manny-pacquiao-880744452.jpg\")
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