{"id":115428,"date":"2017-09-01T07:05:40","date_gmt":"2017-09-01T11:05:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=115428"},"modified":"2017-09-01T07:05:40","modified_gmt":"2017-09-01T11:05:40","slug":"promoters-pacquiao-horn-rematch-wont-happen-this-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2017\/09\/01\/promoters-pacquiao-horn-rematch-wont-happen-this-year\/","title":{"rendered":"Promoters: Pacquiao Horn rematch won’t happen this year"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The WBO said in a statement then that three of the five independent judges who scrutinized the bout awarded it to Horn, one awarded it to Pacquiao and one scored it a draw. (Photo: <\/a>Manny Pacquiao\/Facebook<\/a>)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

BRISBANE, Australia\u2014 Manny Pacquiao won’t box Jeff Horn in a rematch of their WBO world welterweight title fight this year because the\u00a0Filipino\u00a0senator will be busy with government duties.<\/p>\n

Pacquiao’s unavailability for a proposed Nov. 12 bout was announced Friday by Australian promoters of the fight.<\/p>\n

Horn beat Pacquiao in a contentious unanimous decision in Brisbane on July 2. Pacquiao at the time said he wanted a rematch.<\/p>\n

\u201cOn behalf of the\u00a0Philippines\u00a0government, he (Pacquiao) will be part of a delegation that will visit China in the middle of his proposed preparation period for the fight,\u201d local promoter Dean Lonergan said. \u201cPacquiao is committed to fighting again in 2018 and a rematch with Jeff Horn for the WBO world welterweight title.\u201d<\/p>\n

American contender Jesse Vargas, a former world title holder, could possibly take Pacquiao’s place for a fight later this year against Horn, the promoters said. Pacquiao beat Vargas in a unanimous decision last November in Las Vegas.<\/p>\n

A week after his loss to former schoolteacher Horn, Pacquiao said he still disagreed with the unanimous decision that resulted in him losing the welterweight title, despite an independent re-scoring of the fight confirming the unheralded Australian’s win.<\/p>\n

The WBO said in a statement then that three of the five independent judges who scrutinized the bout awarded it to Horn, one awarded it to Pacquiao and one scored it a draw.<\/p>\n

The review concluded that Horn won seven rounds to Pacquiao’s five. The fight took place before 51,000 fans at an outdoor stadium in Brisbane.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

BRISBANE, Australia\u2014 Manny Pacquiao won’t box Jeff Horn in a rematch of their WBO world welterweight title fight this year …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":107420,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[44],"tags":[22562,17693,803,22561],"class_list":["post-115428","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-australian-promoters","tag-jeff-horn","tag-manny-pacquiao","tag-wbo-world-welterweight","mauthors-the-canadian-press"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115428","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=115428"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115428\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/107420"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=115428"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=115428"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=115428"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}