It truly is starting to look as if boxing nice Manny Pacquiao will combat for the WBC welterweight title in a while this yr, most probably in Las Vegas. Mario Barrios, who was elevated from interim champion to full WBC welterweight champion after Terence Crawford made it recognized he’s going up in weight (to 154, the place he’ll problem Israil Madrimov for a belt in August), may face Pac Man quickly.
WBC president Mauricio Sulaiman informed Sky Sports activities that he would completely give his blessing for a Pacquiao problem of Barrios. The present WBC welterweight rankings present that Souleymane Cissokho is the present No1 contender. However Sulaiman says he would allow Pacquiao to get a shot on the belt in Barrios’ subsequent combat.
Sulaiman says a Manny Pacquiao comeback on the age of 45 could be “sensational.” Not solely that, however the WBC president mentioned he feels Pacquiao “can beat any fighter or will be aggressive with any fighter at present.”
“Manny Pacquiao is timeless. He’s a legend,” Sulaiman mentioned. “We’ve nice precedent of former champions coming again so long as they go efficiently all of the medical examinations. As a former champion and as a legend, he does have the potential for combating for the WBC championship. I do like the concept very a lot. I feel Manny Pacquiao can beat any fighter or will be aggressive with any fighter at present. However to have him return to the WBC greater than twenty years after he received his first world championship, which was the WBC flyweight title, after which go all the way in which to welterweight in 2024 could be sensational.”
As a lot as we Pacquiao followers would like to see him come again and make extra historical past, giving us extra pleasure in doing so, there actually isn’t any means of understanding whether or not Manny can “beat any fighter or will be aggressive with any fighter at present.” In his final combat, which befell in the summertime of 2021, Pacquiao was comprehensively overwhelmed by Yordenis Ugas. Okay, Ugas’ tough/awkward fashion could have had one thing to do with it, however Pacquiao regarded a pale drive in comparison with his sensible days, and even compared to his earlier profitable efficiency over Keith Thurman.
Pacquiao has saved himself in form and he’s nonetheless quick and dynamic. However can Manny actually beat a person some 16 years his junior in Barrios? Is it honest that Pacquiao jumps the queue in getting a shot? Sulaiman has given a Barrios-Pacquiao combat the inexperienced mild, so now we’ve to attend and see if the 2 fighters and their groups could make a deal.
Can all-time nice Pacquiao turn out to be a world champion on the age of 45?
