Manny Pacquiao: record, next fight and profile →
Bob Arum was dismayed by the latest news involving one of the greatest fighters he has ever promoted. The 91-year-old founder of Las Vegas-based Top Rank expressed his disappointment with the increasingly likely possibility that eight-division world champion Manny Pacquiao could be returning to the ring this year against embattled British welterweight Conor Benn.
Promoter Eddie Hearn says the only hurdle to making a fight between his client Conor Benn and Manny Pacquiao fight is whether or not his team actually decides to offer the Filipino icon a deal.
Throwing a punch is a great way to secure generational wealth. Sportico, a Penske-owned sports business media company, released its list of the highest-paid athletes of all time on Tuesday, and in their top 50 rankings, seven boxers occupied the coveted spots
A representative for Manny Pacquiao is willing to believe that Conor Benn is a clean fighter, a view that could possibly go a long way to making a fight between the two welterweights.
Conor Benn may have garnered the kind of clarity needed to lure someone like Manny Pacquiao into the ring. Benn, the embattled British welterweight, was the recipient of some favorable news recently when the World Boxing Council wrapped up its investigation of his two positive drug tests by deeming that a “highly elevated consumption of eggs” was a credible explanation.
So long as his career is in limbo, Conor Benn can forget a fight with Manny Pacquiao. Sean Gibbons, a longtime fight agent and advisor to the multi-division champion from the Philippines, suggested in a recent interview that serious discussion for a Pacquiao-Benn fight would only take place if clarity is brought to Benn’s two failed drug tests.
Manny Pacquiao is set for his next fight. Unfortunately for the retired eight-division titlist, it’s a legal battle as he remains the subject of a lawsuit that is due to go to trial beginning March 3. The court date comes nearly two years after Paradigm Sports and its founder/combat sports manager Audie Attar filed a Breach of Contract lawsuit in Orange County Superior Courts in June 2021, one month after Pacquiao announced then-scheduled plans for an August 2021 superfight versus Errol Spence Jr.
Exhibition fever has come for Manny Pacquiao. The Filipino icon will partake in an exhibition bout promoted by Rizin, the Japanese mixed martial arts league, sometime in 2023, the fighter announced Saturday in Japan.
Errol Spence Jr. thinks it would severely hurt his credibility if he fought Manny Pacquiao at this point in his career, and he has a specific historical precedent in mind to back up his claim.
Make no mistake, I appreciate Manny Pacquiao. The things he accomplished after reaching the championship level more than two decades ago measure up to anyone over the same time frame, and he’ll be a deserving International Boxing Hall of Fame inductee from the very instant he becomes eligible.