{"id":28402,"date":"2025-06-30T23:50:11","date_gmt":"2025-06-30T23:50:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/28402\/"},"modified":"2025-06-30T23:50:11","modified_gmt":"2025-06-30T23:50:11","slug":"mario-barrios-on-fighting-legend-manny-pacquiao-its-just-business","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/28402\/","title":{"rendered":"Mario Barrios on fighting legend Manny Pacquiao: &#8220;It&#8217;s just business&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Manny Pacquiao is already talking about having two or three more fights left in him.<\/p>\n<p>That maybe true, but in the here and now, is he in good enough shape to beat a world champion?<\/p>\n<p>Manny&#8217;s going to get his shot against San Antonio&#8217;s very own WBC Welterweight Champion Mario Barrios coming up in just a few short weeks.<\/p>\n<p>Mario&#8217;s almost a 4 to 1 odds on favorite to beat the 46-year old who possesses one of boxing&#8217;s most prolific resumes.<\/p>\n<p>Right now, Mario&#8217;s treating his opponent, a boxing hall of famer, with the utmost respect.<\/p>\n<p>Come fight night, though, he&#8217;s going to treat Manny as if he&#8217;s the guy that&#8217;s trying to steal something from him.<\/p>\n<p>Pacquiao hasn&#8217;t fought a sanctioned boxing event in 4 years and the only reason why this is a title fight is because the WBC is making a special exception for Pacquiao because of his well-earned hall of fame status.<\/p>\n<p>In an interview with Fox San Antonio, Mario talks about the respect he has for Manny but &#8220;it&#8217;s just business&#8221; when he has to fight him in the ring come July 19th in Las Vegas.<\/p>\n<p>Of course, Max Sports noticed Barrios&#8217;s fine taste in art too, with a &#8220;Misfits&#8221; symbol hanging on the wall in the background. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Manny Pacquiao is already talking about having two or three more fights left in him. That maybe true,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":28403,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5133],"tags":[5229,21354,64,24478,6474,2184,24475,24476,7202,7203,358,3187,67,586,132,5230,68,2969,24477],"class_list":{"0":"post-28402","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-san-antonio","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-boxing","10":"tag-business","11":"tag-champion","12":"tag-fight","13":"tag-las-vegas","14":"tag-manny-pacquiao","15":"tag-mario-barrios","16":"tag-san-antonio","17":"tag-sanantonio","18":"tag-texas","19":"tag-tx","20":"tag-united-states","21":"tag-united-states-of-america","22":"tag-unitedstates","23":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","24":"tag-us","25":"tag-usa","26":"tag-wbc"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114775000682391416","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28402","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28402"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28402\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28403"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28402"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28402"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28402"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}