{"id":198479,"date":"2019-01-20T05:22:09","date_gmt":"2019-01-20T10:22:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=198479"},"modified":"2019-01-20T05:22:09","modified_gmt":"2019-01-20T10:22:09","slug":"pacquiao-defends-wba-belt-vs-broner-in-vegas-return","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2019\/01\/20\/pacquiao-defends-wba-belt-vs-broner-in-vegas-return\/","title":{"rendered":"Pacquiao defends WBA belt vs. Broner in Vegas return"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_198480\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-198480\" style=\"width: 1080px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/44673347_287127228580044_7849397959329646550_n.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-198480\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/44673347_287127228580044_7849397959329646550_n.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1080\" height=\"722\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/44673347_287127228580044_7849397959329646550_n.jpg 1080w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/44673347_287127228580044_7849397959329646550_n-300x201.jpg 300w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/44673347_287127228580044_7849397959329646550_n-768x513.jpg 768w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/44673347_287127228580044_7849397959329646550_n-1024x685.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1080px) 100vw, 1080px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-198480\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Pacquiao successfully retained his World Boxing Association welterweight championship with a brilliant victory against Adrien Broner at the MGM Grand Arena on Sunday (Philippine Time). (File Photo: @mannypacquiao\/Instagram)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>MANILA<\/strong>\u00a0\u2014 Forty-year-old Manny Pacquiao stepped into a boxing ring in Las Vegas for the first time in nearly three years.<\/p>\n<p>In his return, however, he showcased a vintage performance.<\/p>\n<p>Pacquiao successfully retained his World Boxing Association welterweight championship with a brilliant victory against Adrien Broner at the MGM Grand Arena on Sunday (Philippine Time).<\/p>\n<p>Playing in his 70th professional bout, Pacquiao showed that he can still compete with a brilliant stint as if he turned back Father Time.<\/p>\n<p>Pacquiao stepped on the gas in the opening moments of the 12-round affair, already frustrating Broner with his quickness and aggression.<\/p>\n<p>Although Broner had some bright moments in the fourth round, Pacquiao became more solid in Rounds 7 and 9, nearly knocking his 29-year-old opponent down with his flurries.<\/p>\n<p>In the end, Dave Moretti gave a 117-111 score for Pacquiao, while Jim Cheatham and Glenn Feldman each had it 116-112 also for Pacquiao, who scored his 61st win against two draws and seven defeats.<\/p>\n<p>Broner suffered only his fourth loss in his career against 33 wins and one draw with one no contest.<\/p>\n<p>Pacquiao&#8217;s win made up for the losses of Ray Perez and Jay-Ar Inson in the undercard.<\/p>\n<p>Perez fell to George Kambosos, a former sparring partner of Pacquiao during training camp, via unanimous decision with the three judges giving the Australian perfect 80&#8217;s in the eight-round bout.<\/p>\n<p>Inson, on the other hand, survived two Round 1 knockdowns against Jonathan Steele only to lose via split decision in their own eight-round clash.<\/p>\n<p>Inson got a 77-74 card from one judge, but the other two jurors had it 78-73 and 77-74 respectively for Steele.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MANILA\u00a0\u2014 Forty-year-old Manny Pacquiao stepped into a boxing ring in Las Vegas for the first time in nearly three years. &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":198480,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[44],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-198479","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","mauthors-ivan-stewart-saldajeno","mauthors-philippine-news-agency"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198479","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\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=198479"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198479\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/198480"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=198479"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=198479"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=198479"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}