Eight-division world champion and the all-time great, legendary Manny Pacquiao has shared that he intends to target a clash with 2-weight world champion and 2-time Olympic Gold Medalist, Vasyl Lomachenko.
That clash could perhaps be his final massive fight before calling time on a glorious career that will be immortalised in the history books forever.
Bob Arum, the CEO of Top Rank Inc told the Las Vegas Review Journal on Tuesday that he wanted to plan Pacquiao’s return to the squared circle on April 21st, on the undercard of the planned Jeff Horn – Terence Crawford world welterweight title clash.
But Pacquiao has now shared that the plan is perhaps taking a change of course.
A Lomachenko-Pacquiao clash would, of course, be one of the biggest, mammoth main events in boxing history. There is absolutely no doubt.
Pacquiao shared he is currently in negotiations to face Lomachenko.
“There are negotiations now about the number one pound-for-pound (boxer) which is Lomachenko,” Pacquiao said in an interview on ABS-CBN television.
This fight will have to be at a catchweight with Lomachenko currently campaigning at the super-featherweight limit of 130 lbs. Pacquiao has campaigned as a welterweight since his 2008 mega-fight against Oscar De La Hoya.
“There are still talks on the weight, reducing the weight,” said Pacquiao.
Pacquiao has been out of the ring since July 2017, when he was upset and surprised by Australia’s Jeff Horn and surrendered his WBO world welterweight title.
He has been out of the gym since due to his political obligations in his homeland of the Philippines.
“You know, I miss boxing,” Pacquiao said.
On the topic of his physical condition ahead of what will be the year ‘The Pacman’ will turn 40.
He added he was “still okay.”
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