Manny Pacquiao will end almost a four -year break from the ring to challenge Mario Barrios for the WBC welterweight title on July 19 at the MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas.

“I came back”, Pacquiao Posted on social media That his rumors return officially. “Let’s do a story!”

Last time Pacquiao (62-8-2, 39 KO) was in a square district, the Filipino boxing legend abandoned the unanimous decision to Yordenis Ugas in August 2021. He was 42 years aged. When he passes through the ropes to face Barrio, he will be 46 years aged.

Pacquiao, which will be introduced to the International Gallery of Boxing Fame on June 8, did not deal with the motivation for the decision to end his retirement, but the story he talks about is an opportunity to break his own record as the oldest 147-pound world champion in boxing (40 years, 215 days). In historically, only two boxers won the fight for the title of world champion at the age of 46 or older – George Foreman (46 years aged, 102 days) and Bernard Hopkins, who won four title fights after their 46th birthday and was 49 years aged, 94 days in his last winning title.

Foreman had amazing power at his advanced age to remove opponents, while Hopkins was more about technology and defense than athleticism to lead him to victory at the age of 40. Pacquiao is largely based on athleticism to win the fights, and its once flat speed was clearly falling in its last fight.

To illustrate the fall of Pacquiao, he threw 10 less blows to the round and landed about seven fewer blows for the round in his six fights after the age of 40, compared to its results in the last 14 fights earlier, according to Compubox-Rekord 4-2 with only 1 KO.

Defeating Barrios will be a huge mountain to climb-in-depths and in the figuratively-for the only eight-person world champion in boxing. Replaced at 6 feet, Barrios will be the highest opponent of Pacquiao in his multi -story professional career, which began in 1995. Barrios is also 16 years younger than Pacquiao, which is the greatest divergence of age for the four -time northern champion.

But while Barrios (29-2-1, 18 KO) is more than powerful, the father’s time will be the most challenging challenge for Pacquiao to defeat the ring.

Pacquiao met with the legendary coach Freddie Roach to return to the fight, and the animated duo will work to build a game plan to cause nervousness. But boxing is a challenging sport that you can jump after almost half a decade, especially in the 1940s, and when athletism was the basis of Pacquiao’s success.

As a warrior whose crime is based on speed and explosion, Pacquiao must find a youth fountain to cause nervousness (Barrios is a favorite by -450 for the ESPN plant). Throughout his career, Pacquiao’s success was largely because of his ability to throw trouble and go out, blowing up opponents with combinations of lightning at heavenly angles. Only the highest contractors (Juan Manuel Marquez and Floyd Mayweather) could get the right reading of the unpredictable Pacquiao offensive explosions and tame them at the right time. When Pacquiao began to ponderous down, it was easier to qualify fighters such as Jeff Horn to work out. Despite this, there were moments when Pacquiao was swift enough at the draw to surprise the opponents. Adrien Broner and Keith Thurman faced-I lost-40-year-old Pacquiao, who was still explosive enough to overwhelm at its speed.

It was six years ago.

In the last fight, Pacquiao from Ugas showed less explosion and hindered his leg work through JAB and looping his right hand. It is true that Ugas is a technically solid Cuban boxer, which was based on the fundamental sound over pure athleticism to become the world champion. Nevertheless, Pacquiao never found any rhythm and was finally developed in what was assumed that he was the final fight of his legendary career.

The fight against Barrio will be the same about finding your aged Pacquiao form as about overcoming the physical advantages of the opponent. Pacquiao will have to hope that his time away from sport will provide a very needed spring at his step. If he is not able to cut angles and find holes that you can throw and leave the legs of the legs, he will end at the wrong end of the Barrios long immersion.

Barrios, however, is not impossible to beat and is the most reasonable path for Pacquiao to achieve his purpose of regaining the title of welterweight. During the last trip, Barrios survived the knocking out in the sixth round to save the split against Abel Ramos to Undercard Jake Paul vs. Mike Tyson in November. Barrios tends to negate his growth and achieve advantages, fighting the “miniature” and having most of his success inside. His loser with a knockout from Gervont Davis in 2021. “El Azteca” became defenseless, squatting within her shorter opponent-Davis has 5 feet-5½. Barrios is also a bit slower and can be developed by a more extensive opponent. Thurman left the 931-day break and looked faster and sharper than Barrios when they met in 2022.

Despite this, Thurman was 33 years aged and in the original years of boxing of physicality and athleticism. Pacquiao is far from this. It is unlikely that in the mid -1940s Pacquiao will somehow faster and more explosive than against Thurman and Broner in 2019.

Coach Junto Nakratani, Rudy Hernandez, says that he hopes that the dug (30-0, 23 KO) will fight Jesse “Bam” Rodriguez because he is “100 percent” Convinced that he would knock him out.

This is a fight that he should take to give him a bad experience, but not. It is good for the dug that his trainer, Rudy, is not fighting. BAM’s ability to move, throwing blows from strange angles would be a nightmare for him.

Damniti makes technical mistakes when he is forced to fight quickly, and cannot fight inside. His crime is circumscribed to his left hand -like hand. After taking this weapon, the dug is very circumscribed. His trainer, Rudy Hernandez, did not develop his skills. I am sure he tried, but some warriors cannot learn.

“BAM: A real nightmare

Permission to fight Bam Rodriguez can be a complete disaster, as is the destruction of Wisksil Wangek, Sunlit Edwards and Juan Estrada. These three have more technical abilities than dug, and Jesse looked effortless, disarming their offensive weapon to get a knockout.

“BAM” (21-0, 14 KO) is incorrect in a robotic, one-dimensional style. He has only one weapon, his left hand. We saw how frustrated and loses confidence when he can’t land left.

Promoters dug They probably won’t let him nearby Talent like “BAM” Rodriguez, because it would spoil the great payment he will get next year against Nayy Inoue’s “Monster”. The 27 -year -old WBC Bantamweight champion, dug, is one fight with Inoue’s challenge for his unquestionable Super Bantamweight championship in May 2026 in Tokyo, Japan.

The direction of the dug helped him create an undefeated record, but he did not fight the elite warrior at the level, such as “BAM” Rodriguez. Junto is too relying on his left hand. He must have a perfectly configured shot to land it, and when he can’t, he looks helpless. He is clearly nervous when he can’t connect to his left.

“I hope we are fighting bam. If you were bam, would you call out? Junto Beats Bam, 100 percent, in six to eight rounds. We’ll spend it. I am sure that coach Ruda Hernandez is Ring magazine About his warrior, Junto, detaining Jesse “Bam” Rodriguez, if they were to fight.

Rodriguez is waiting for unification

WBC 115-LB “BAM” Rodriguez fights with the WBO Super Flyweight Phumelel Cafu master (11-0-3, 8 KO) on July 19 in Fordco, FRISCO, Texas. After Rodriguez wins this fight, he will be a champion of two stripes aged 115.

Next month, the WBC Bantamweight champion will face IBF Ryosuke Nishida (10-0, 2 KO) on June 8 in the struggle of unification at the Ariake Colosseum, Tokyo, Japan.

The news spread that Manny Pacquiao (62-8-2, 39 KO) will fight Mario Barrios (29-2-1, 18 KO) at the Barrios welterweight belt. Many commentators are nervous, because in addition to his current age, Pacquiao is approaching four years of idleness, since losing to Yordenis Ugas in 2021. One of the overarching narratives was that Pacquiao jumps in a queue, apart from younger, more dynamic warriors who fought for a shot in the title.

Although a bit true, it is challenging to argue that manny, thanks to his achievements, did not deserve the right to challenge the title at his own request. In the first years he served sport honorably, providing thrilling, full of fighting and bringing fans from around the world to boxing. Pacquiao was a walking roller in front of Saudi money, dazem or fixation on undefeated records. It has been proven that he was able to postpone time for his father time and always fought the best as he could in every fight, sometimes thrown in pursuit of the opponent.

Risk Return Pacquiao

The second, more vital argument is that Pacquiao risks its health by fighting at an advanced age of 46. In his youth, Pacquiao had enough strength to avoid caught pure blows in a full fight for the championship. Using a mixture of leg work to rush and leave and a solid guard, he pulled a shock from many shots. He would also return the fire in the middle of a combination of opponents. In his recent fights with Thurman and Ugas, Pacquiao’s head was repeatedly withdrawn because of his inability to predict shots, tiring his legs and the lack of distance between themselves and the opponent. As a cultural phenomenon, it would be a shame to see how Pacquiao maintains constant damage when his career finally ends, if he did not yet. As a legend of boxing, it would be another example of what happens when the warrior exaggerates with greeting. Time will tell what impact his many wars had on his brain, but it seems that in his best interest it would be to suspend gloves and enjoy the fruits of his delivery.

It is intriguing that WBC sanction this fight and defends his decision. Over the years, Mauricio Sulaiman has opposed women fighting with three rounds and twelve rounds of struggle for the championship because they can risk constant brain injury, which is a risk that every boxer takes when they enter the ring. A fight in which one warrior is approaching 50, while the other is still at their best level, seems to be a more dramatic risk of security than two women with similar competing skills. Prohibiting women taking the most basic risk in boxing (knocking), while enabling freakshow sanctions in such a way that your organization sends a clear message. Sulaiman stands on the road the size of women.

Barrios: Weaker master?

It is true that Barrios is the least hazardous champion at 147 pounds, but Pacquiao still takes a great risk, depending on his worn battle, a 46-year-old body to lead him to victory. While Pacquiao will still have strangely bulky hands, the decisive factor will be the strength of the section. Barrios is not power, but if he manages to survive the early stages of the fight, he may be able to win a victory over the aging legend.

The purpose of this fight is to handle the Pacquiao heritage. He is addressed to the perceived weakest master in his weight class and hopes that he will make history, taking his record of being the oldest welterweight champion. But at the age of 46, how much does he still offer?

We will undoubtedly see the flashes of Pac-Man when the night-kill of strokes with awkward angles comes. The show of his will, which was broken only once, made him unconscious. It will be kind in victory or failure. But when the events of the evening are prescribed in countless articles on the internet, they will be far from the stories told during his years of killing monsters and giants, casting impossible combinations and confirming that the heroes are not promotion products, but are created by the circumstances they endure, and the stories we talk about them.