{"id":150245,"date":"2025-05-08T13:53:00","date_gmt":"2025-05-08T19:53:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wbcboxing.com\/mario-barrios-podria-defender-el-wbc-mundial-welter-ante-manny-pacquiao\/"},"modified":"2025-05-08T13:54:14","modified_gmt":"2025-05-08T19:54:14","slug":"mario-barrios-could-defend-wbc-world-welterweight-title-against-legend-manny-pacquiao","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wbcboxing.com\/en\/mario-barrios-could-defend-wbc-world-welterweight-title-against-legend-manny-pacquiao\/","title":{"rendered":"Mario Barrios could defend WBC world welterweight title against Legend Manny Pacquiao"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Mario Barrios could defend WBC world welterweight title against Legend Manny Pacquiao<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>The Filipino Inferno could return to boxing this year.<\/p>\n<p>Mario \u201cAzteca\u201d Barrios, the WBC world welterweight champion, could defend his crown against none other than Manny \u201cPac Man\u201d Pacquiao.<\/p>\n<p>The fight could take place next July 19 in Las Vegas, Nevada.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPac Man\u201d has not seen activity in the ring since August 2021 when he faced Yordenis Ugas. The fight he lost by unanimous decision.<\/p>\n<p>Of course, if Pacquiao were to return, he would go through the necessary medical exams and the approval of the Nevada Athletic Commission.<\/p>\n<p>The main reason for the legendary Filipino boxer to return would be the desire to retire definitively as WBC champion.<\/p>\n<p>Mario Barrios holds a record of 29-2-1 with 18 KOs.<br \/>\nManny Pacquiao has a record of 62-8-2 with 39 KOs.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mario Barrios could defend WBC world welterweight title against Legend Manny Pacquiao The Filipino Inferno could return to boxing this year. Mario \u201cAzteca\u201d Barrios, the WBC<span class=\"excerpt-hellip\"> [\u2026]<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":150242,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[121,120],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-150245","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-main-news","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wbcboxing.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150245","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wbcboxing.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wbcboxing.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wbcboxing.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wbcboxing.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=150245"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wbcboxing.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150245\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wbcboxing.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/150242"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wbcboxing.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=150245"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wbcboxing.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=150245"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wbcboxing.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=150245"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}