{"id":196223,"date":"2019-01-03T21:50:16","date_gmt":"2019-01-04T02:50:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=196223"},"modified":"2019-01-03T21:50:16","modified_gmt":"2019-01-04T02:50:16","slug":"manny-pacquiao-clarifies-goal-for-next-fight-wants-to-knock-out-adrien-broner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2019\/01\/03\/manny-pacquiao-clarifies-goal-for-next-fight-wants-to-knock-out-adrien-broner\/","title":{"rendered":"Manny Pacquiao clarifies goal for next fight, wants to knock out Adrien Broner"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_196224\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-196224\" style=\"width: 638px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Screen-Shot-2019-01-03-at-22.40.49.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-196224 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Screen-Shot-2019-01-03-at-22.40.49.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"638\" height=\"796\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Screen-Shot-2019-01-03-at-22.40.49.png 638w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Screen-Shot-2019-01-03-at-22.40.49-240x300.png 240w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 638px) 100vw, 638px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-196224\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">&#8220;3 weeks until #PacquiaoBroner&#8221; (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/BsAMNC1lhIe\/\">Photo<\/a>: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/mannypacquiao\/\">@mannypacquiao<\/a>\/<a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\">Instagram<\/a>)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">World Champion boxer Manny Pacquiao is ready to represent the Philippines once again as he trains in anticipation for his fight against American Adrien Broner, whom he recently shared in an interview when he said that he wants to \u201cknock out Broner.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">During Pacquiao\u2019s New Year\u2019s Eve training at Wild Card Boxing, he shared that he is \u201cnot making a prediction, but [he] is looking for a knockout against Broner,\u201d stating, \u201cI have to maximize the opportunity. I forgot how much fun winning a fight by knockout was until I stopped Lucas Matthysse last summer to win the WBA (World Boxing Association) (secondary) welterweight title.\u201d <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Pacquiao emphasized that he \u201cfelt great to win\u201d his last match against his previous Argentinian opponent, and wants to win in the same way on January 19. When asked about going against the fellow boxing champion who has won in four divisions, Pacquiao jokes, \u201cI have nothing personal against Adrien Broner. This fight is strictly business. He is fun. He makes me laugh. He knows how to sell himself and to sell a fight.\u201d Pacquiao is aware, however, that the 29-year-old Broner has never lost by knockout.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Filipino boxing fans, as well as Pacquiao\u2019s family, is flying to Las Vegas for the fight in two weeks as this is the athlete-turned-politician\u2019s first appearance in the United States since battling it out against Jessie Vargas in 2016. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">To prepare for the fight, which many assume is a step towards the Pacquiao-Mayweather rematch, the \u201cFighter of the Decade\u201d (according to the Boxing Writers Association of America) promoted his best friend and assistant trainer Buboy Fernandez as head trainer, while Coach Freddie Roach has been helping as well. Fernandez proudly shares that he is \u201cvery pleased with the training camp Manny has had. His footwork, distance, and angles are all coming together nicely,\u201d confidently adding, \u201cWhen he hits the mitts it sounds like an explosion. I have never felt such raw power.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>World Champion boxer Manny Pacquiao is ready to represent the Philippines once again as he trains in anticipation for his &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":196224,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[44],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-196223","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","mauthors-gianna-llanes","mauthors-philippine-canadian-inquirer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196223","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=196223"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196223\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/196224"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=196223"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=196223"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=196223"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}