James Toney shouldn’t be overly enthused by the prospect of Floyd Mayweather going through Manny Pacquiao, however has nonetheless provided a prediction for his or her potential rematch.
Their long-anticipated encounter lastly befell in 2015, when Mayweather retained his WBC and WBA world welterweight titles with a transparent unanimous determination victory.
After that, the American improved his document to 50-0 (27 KOs) with additional wins over Andre Berto and Conor McGregor, however has remained out of an expert ring ever since.
Pacquiao, in the meantime, continued to compete at world stage as much as 2021, when he misplaced his WBA welterweight title through a unanimous verdict towards Yordenis Ugas.
A close to four-year layoff – excluding any exhibition matches – was then led to July 2025, with ‘Pac Man’ getting into a right away world title shot towards WBC champion Mario Barrios.
However regardless of the results of a draw, many imagine that the Filipino, aged 46 on the time, had finished sufficient to dethrone the WBC belt-holder at 147lbs.
Since then, Pacquiao has known as for a profitable rematch with Mayweather, whose solely outings since 2017 have come through a string of exhibitions.
It’s largely due to his inactivity in recent times that pound-for-pound legend Toney doubts whether or not Mayweather can replicate the success he loved the primary time round.
Talking with ESNEWS, the Corridor of Famer insisted that Pacquiao’s motion, specifically, would show a big issue of their attainable rematch.
“Are you critical? I’m going to say Manny Pacquiao [wins their potential rematch]. He nonetheless has the motion, and I haven’t seen Floyd in like 10 years.”
It’s simply over 10 years in the past, actually, that Mayweather emerged triumphant towards Pacquiao who, even again then, was broadly considered nicely previous his greatest.
