Filipino boxing icon Manny Pacquiao on Friday said he proposed a real boxing to the Irish star of MMA fighter Conor McGregor next year.
“Wish you Happy Thanksgiving! Keep in shape my friend #realboxingmatch#2018.” posted Pacquiao on his Twitter and Instagram to McGregor.
The 39-year-old boxer, out of retirement in 2016 after embarking on a political career in his country, he lost his welterweight WBO title in last July to Australian Jeff Horn in Brisbane crowd at Suncorp Stadium.
Horn shocked the world by being ahead of Pacquiao, the 29-year-old survived a close KO in the 9th round and began to gain a controversial victory.
Horn’s victory has been deemed controversial given how even both sides seem to be in the end. Away from the judges’ score of 115-113, 115-113, and 117-111 most boxing expert who watched scored the match at a tie or Pacquiao’s favor.
Coming up in the widely circulated fight, Horn has been in all ways an outsider. Most experts did not think about fighting Pacquiao.
He was in many people’s opinion the favourite to win, given his brilliant career record and vast experience in the ring.
The Filipino senator had agreed to the rematch clause to fight Horn once again in Australia on November, but in he sudden pulled out from the rematch against Horn, leave the 29 year-old boxer potentially facing a title defence against an American in the United States next year.
McGregor on the other side, he’s not yet giving and response regarding the controversial statement of Pacquiao sooner.
Conor McGregor lost via a technical knockout in the 10th round of his fight against American Floyd Mayweather. (Source:www.dailyhive.com)
McGregor has not fought for either the UFC or boxing since last August 2017. He lost to the undefeated boxing champion FloydMaywether in the one of the richest fight in the boxing history by the referee’s decision in the 10th round.
Since then, the American boxing legend Mayweather retired at 40 by being the first boxer to reach 50 victories in as many fights.
He was declared the winner of Pacquiao in 2015 during the most expensive fight in the history of boxing. Presented as “the fight of the century”, the fight between two legends was unanimously deemed disappointing.
The UFC was planning a return to McGregor at UFC 219 on December 30 in Las Vegas, where he would likely have defended his title against American fighter Tony Ferguson.
