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LAS VEGAS — In a stunning move Friday, Manny Pacquiao and Errol Spence Jr. reached a deal for a welterweight unification bout on Aug. 21 in Las Vegas. The bout will be in Las Vegas, but the venue hasn’t been decided, Sean Gibbons, the president of MP Promotions, told Yahoo Sports. The 42-year-old Pacquiao, who hasn’t fought since scoring a split decision victory over Keith Thurman on July 20, 2019, at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas, had been in talks to fight Mike Garcia. But the chance at a… Source link

Ryan Garcia, the 22-year-old rising star who just last month stopped Luke Campbell to win the interim WBC lightweight title, appears headed toward a welterweight showdown with the legendary Manny Pacquiao, a source close to the fighters told Yahoo Sports on Saturday. Garcia said in a video he released on his Instagram that the bout, if it is finalized, would not be an exhibition bout but a full 12-round match. The source told Yahoo Sports that the fighters have agreed to face each other in… Source link

On Dec. 17, 1978, Mexico’s Pipino Cuevas was in his third year as the WBA welterweight champion, a belt he’d won in 1976 from Puerto Rican Angel Espada. On that same day in the Philippines, unnoticed by the world, a baby was born who would go on to make a mark on the division that the hard-hitting Cuevas then ruled. Since then, 29 different men have held that belt, including legends like Sugar Ray Leonard, Thomas Hearns, Shane Mosley and Floyd Mayweather Jr. That baby is now one of the most… Source link