Manny Pacquiao Jr.: record, next fight and profile →
Undisputed junior welterweight champion Josh Taylor would still be open to the idea of facing his idol, Manny Pacquiao. but the Scottish star is not convinced that a victory would elevate his career.
Manny Pacquiao strength and conditioning coach Justin Fortune has been a staple in the Filipino boxing icon’s corner for better parts of the last two decades. Fortune is a former Australian heavyweight fighter who tallied a record of 15-9-2 and 9 KOs and trained under Roach before retiring in 2009, and he’s worked in tandem with Hall of Fame trainer Freddie Roach to help Pacquiao from 2001 until 2007, and again from 2013 till now.
Yordenis Ugas never had any doubt in his ability to beat Manny Pacquiao, nor does he see a potential rematch being any more competitive. Talks of a sequel have surfaced on the heels of Ugas’ twelve-round decision win over the legendary Filipino southpaw in their August 21 welterweight title fight. Ugas (27-4, 12KOs) won by scores of 116-112, 116-112 and 115-113 in a fight he accepted on just eleven days’ notice, replacing an injured Errol Spence (27-0, 21KOs) atop a Fox Sports Pay-Per-View event from T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas.
Yordenis Ugas has heard the same criticism of his countrymen for many years. Detractors of Cuban-born professional prizefighters often contend that they’re incapable of winning “the big fights.” Ugas’ Cuban contemporaries – most notably Yuriorkis Gamboa, Erislandy Lara, Luis Ortiz and Guillermo Rigondeaux – have had a lot of success in recent years, yet they have come up short in their highest-profile fights against Terence Crawford, Canelo Alvarez, Deontay Wilder and Vasiliy Lomachenko, respectively.
Undisputed junior welterweight champion, Josh Taylor, has never made it a secret that eight division champion Manny Pacquiao is his idol. Taylor even has a dog named 'Pacman'. On the other hand, Taylor has always desired to tests his skills against Pacquiao.
Promoter Eddie Hearn had a feeling Manny Pacquiao would suffer an upset loss at the hands of WBA welterweight champion Yordenis Ugas. Ugas accepted the fight on ten days notice, after WBC, IBF welterweight champion Errol Spence was forced to withdraw when a serious eye injury was discovered during a pre-fight medical examination.
For all that Manny Pacquiao has achieved throughout his incredible career, he has earned the right to react as he chooses to his latest defeat. Or so believes his most recent conqueror. Yordenis Ugas wasn’t at all bothered by Pacquiao’s efforts to dismiss what took place in their welterweight title fight. Ugas (27-4, 12KOs) stepped in to replace an injured Errol Spence on just eleven days’ notice, proceeding to thoroughly outbox the legendary Filipino southpaw en route to a twelve-round unanimous decision win in their August 21 Fox Sports Pay-Per-View headliner at T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas.
WBC super bantamweight champion Nonito Donaire was ringside last Saturday night at the T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas, as he watched countryman Manny Pacquiao lose a twelve round unanimous decision to WBA welterweight champion Yordenis Ugas.
Throughout fight week, Manny Pacquiao repeatedly suggested that his fight with Yordenis Ugas could very well be the last of his amazing career. The call for that to be the case never rang louder than upon the conclusion of their August 21 Fox Sports Pay-Per-View headliner. Ugas thoroughly outboxed and outfought the legendary Filipino en route to a twelve-round, unanimous decision victory at T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas. Pacquiao remained non-committal to walking away for good, even hinting at a possible rematch with Ugas though not discounting the possibility of riding off into the sunset.
LOS ANGELES — Manny Pacquiao pummelled Oscar De La Hoya into retirement with a one-sided beating in 2008. The win elevated the Filipino fighter further into the sport’s stratosphere. Thirteen years later, De La Hoya is days away from returning to the ring with a fight against former UFC champion Vitor Belfort, just as Pacquiao is days removed from suffering an upset loss to Yordenis Ugas.