Manny Pacquiao dismisses Jake Paul fight rumors: \u201cI want to fight the best\u201d Instagram: Jake Paul \/ Manny PacquiaoBoxing legend Manny Pacquiao shut down rumors that he\u2019s open to fighting Jake Paul, claiming he only \u201cwants to fight the best\u201d, which doesn\u2019t include Jake due to his lack of experience. Manny Pacquiao is a name that is synonymous with boxing. With an impressive career spanning 71 fights, 62 of which he\u2019s won, he is considered to be one of the greatest boxers of all-time. After Logan Paul went the distance against Floyd Mayweather, it was only a matter of time before Pacquiao was listed as a potential candidate for one of the Paul brothers to take on. However, he put those rumors to bed. A reporter asked Pacquiao if he would ever consider fighting a YouTuber and specifically mentioned Jake Paul. But he flat out refused. \u201cNo, I will not. I will not,\u201d he said. \u201cI want to fight the best to add on to my legacy.\u201d Pacquiao insisted it has nothing to do with Paul\u2019s skill as a boxer. Instead, it\u2019s more about his lack of experience. \u201cI\u2019m not underestimating Paul, but he doesn\u2019t have a lot of experience of boxing, so he\u2019s already [at a] disadvantage.\u201d Interestingly though, he was open to the idea of fighting Floyd Mayweather. He admitted it wasn\u2019t likely because he\u2019s still active in boxing while Mayweather is retired. But when asked if he\u2019d consider it, he said he would. Pacquiao is taking on the current unified world welterweight champion, Errol Spence Jr., in Las Vegas on August 21. He\u2019s currently undefeated with an impressive 27-0 record, so it might be Pacquiao\u2019s biggest challenge yet.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Manny Pacquiao dismisses Jake Paul fight rumors: \u201cI want to fight the best\u201d Instagram: Jake Paul \/ Manny PacquiaoBoxing legend Manny Pacquiao shut down rumors that he\u2019s open to fighting Jake Paul, claiming he only \u201cwants to fight the best\u201d, which doesn\u2019t include Jake due to his lack of experience. Manny Pacquiao is a name […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-54937","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54937","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=54937"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54937\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=54937"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=54937"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=54937"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}