Arum has announced that Pacquiao will return in April. The fight will be in the US. Bradley or Marquez are the most likely opponents. Roach says Mayweather is the guy they want most, but it's obvious that won't be happening considering Mayweather announced a while ago that he'll be fighting in May.
To be honest I think he could fight tomorrow if he wanted to! The Mayweather fight would be unbelievable for the sport but I can't see it happening. With that in mind I'd like to see Bradley or Marquez, I'd back him to beat both on points.
It would have been preferable to have either of those rematches in say, January (to give Bradley or Marquez a solid few months of buffer time since their clash with each other) and just skip last night. Thrashing Rios proved nothing and did nothing for Pacquiao except help boost his confidence after the KO loss and net him the WBO Intercontinental title. Literally nothing else. It was neither a learning experience nor did it gain him any cred, and it wasn't particularly exciting. Waste of a date and waste of many people's $70.
last nights performance could have been an anomaly but i believe that paq is fighting strictly for money at this point which generally never ends well for a fighter at the top levels
Stupid post, you don't have talk some crap. Of cause it benefitted Pac in terms of getting him a win for the first time in 2 years against a young hungry lion, getting his confidence back and fighting a more careful calculated stategy that will do him good in the long run. The fight got his name out there and it was a pretty exciting fight too, certainly far better then the boring crap that we saw with Mayweather vs Canelo. The majority of the fans who payed for the PPV will be happy at seeing Pac win again and look good and come back for the next PPV.
Glad Pac is keeping busy. April fight needs to be either Bradley 2 or Marquez although Provodnikov would be fine too.
Anybody who bought that PPV should be demanding a refund. Mayweather vs. Alvarez was far superior viewing, and was at least slightly competitive at times...and its undercard crushed last night's which may have actually been the worst of the millennium so far.
If you think Mayweather vs Alvarez was far superior viewing then you're obviously sniffing glue. Of cause the undercard was better though, no argument there but we're not debating the undercard and Toprank have always put on terrible undercards.
He losses a decision to Bradley, gets KO'd again by JMM, and probably leaves on a stretcher against Provodnikov.
Mayweather vs. Alvarez was hardly the stuff of legend but it was a chess match that at least held one's interest the whole time. I literally had trouble forcing myself to finish watching Pacquiao vs. Rios, and only because I was doing a RBR for it. Had that not been the case I would've gone to bed. It was obvious by the 4th round that it would go exactly the same in the 5th-12th. Rios landed virtually nothing all night (ignore CompuBox, which somehow credited him with landing a little more than half of what Pacquiao did through six :nut. The button-clicker for Compubox was either offsite with a crappy stream or was fabricating lots of imaginary blows for Bam-Bam...) and his gas tank clearly was less full than Pacquiao's.