By: Sean Crose
“He’s scared to death,” Manny Pacquiao has mentioned to FightHype, “that’s my analysis on him.” The legendary fighter is talking of Floyd Mayweather, who he claims has no real interest in going through him in a rematch of their 2015 superfight. Although he formally retired from boxing after shedding to Yordenis Ugas again in 2021, Pacquiao sounds within the interview like he could also be severely contemplating a comeback. Since shedding his bid for the Filipino Presidency, the now 43 12 months outdated Pacquiao has been retaining match, taking part in basketball and commonly hitting the health club. This weekend, he’s going through martial artist DK Yoo in a South Korean exhibition bout to earn cash for charity.
While Mayweather has been combating in exhibition bouts for a while now, he hasn’t given any indication of returning to the professional ranks – and, let’s face it, with good cause. Like Pacquiao, Mayweather is properly into his forties now, properly previous a fighter’s prime years. Pacquiao, nevertheless, stays sad with the truth that he misplaced to Mayweather over seven years in the past, and longs for a second struggle. Yet Pacquiao revealed one thing else notable within the FightHype interview – the truth that he’s keen (Or is it keen?) to face modern welterweight kingpins Terence Crawford and Errol Spence.
“I can fight Crawford or Spence,” he mentioned. “I’m eager to fight with them to test them, if they’re really a champion.” With negotiations for a Crawford-Spence megabout falling by way of this previous autumn, neither present welterweight titlist seems to have a high title opponent on the horizon (until you depend Keith Thurman), although few would give Pacquiao an opportunity in opposition to both man at this time limit. Pacquiao, nevertheless, actually seems assured within the interview with FightHype. “I’m still here,” he says, “even though I was retired for more than a year.”
