Quote from: alfs75 on March 30, 2018, 08:55:07 AM

Quote from: nydiacaskey01 on March 15, 2018, 04:33:27 PM

The fighting Senator of the Philippines Manny Pacquiao announced that he is fighting this coming June 24 at Malaysia. The possible opponent is Lucas Matthysse the current WBA light welterweight champion.

For those of you who is not familiar with Lucas Matthysse below is his Boxing Record

Total fights - 44
Wins - 39
Wins by KO - 36
Losses - 4
No contests - 1

What we know so far is Freddie Roach has not committed himself yet to train Manny for this fight. Bob Arum is the the promoter for this fight, it will be De la Joya's Golden Boy Promotions and Manny's MP Promotion.

Earlier it known that Manny was asked to be an under card for Jeff Horns fight but Manny rejected the offer. There were also rumors that Manny can't fight in the US like in Las Vegas because he has issues with the IRS "again".

Will, if we talking about experience and power and speed i rather choose pacquiao in this fight,because all of us here already know that he is the former 8 division champion i the whole world compared to his opponent Lucas Matthysse a young opponent hunger to become a champion and proving his own record that he have a right to become a champion.maybe pacquiao now is to old compare to mathysse in terms of age but the hunger of winning back again is still there and the power,speed is still there,because he want to regain back his tittle.

Lucas is not that young anymore, although you are correct that Manny is much older that him. He last lost to Victor Postol via KO (although he seems didn't want to get up, but later he said that he injured is eye). But he then strung up 2 successive wins leading to this fight. However, I also think that Manny has still the power to outlast Lucas and I'm sure that Manny will win this and maybe retire after this fight.