{"id":223331,"date":"2019-07-18T01:58:18","date_gmt":"2019-07-18T05:58:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=223331"},"modified":"2019-07-18T01:58:18","modified_gmt":"2019-07-18T05:58:18","slug":"pacquiao-responds-to-claims-he-has-signed-to-fight-amir-khan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2019\/07\/18\/pacquiao-responds-to-claims-he-has-signed-to-fight-amir-khan\/","title":{"rendered":"Pacquiao responds to claims he has signed to fight Amir Khan"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_223332\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-223332\" style=\"width: 958px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/Screen-Shot-2019-07-17-at-11.57.02-PM.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-223332 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/Screen-Shot-2019-07-17-at-11.57.02-PM.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"958\" height=\"636\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/Screen-Shot-2019-07-17-at-11.57.02-PM.png 958w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/Screen-Shot-2019-07-17-at-11.57.02-PM-300x199.png 300w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/Screen-Shot-2019-07-17-at-11.57.02-PM-768x510.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 958px) 100vw, 958px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-223332\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">FILE: &#8220;My team and I are in negotiations with Amir Khan for our next fight. Further announcement coming soon.&#8221; (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/BQ1gNv4hzuT\/\">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;\">Despite 32-year-old British boxer Amir Khan claiming that he will be facing eight-time champion Filipino athlete Manny Pacquiao for his next fight after his World Boxing Council international welterweight title fourth-round gain last Saturday, Pacquiao\u2019s party denied the statement made on Tuesday, July 16.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Initially, Khan told the media that he will be returning to Saudi Arabia on November 8. In his words to British radio station TalkSport, \u201cThe next fight is going to be back in Saudi Arabia, it is going to be in Riyadh this time and it is going to be on 8th November. Hopefully it could be the Manny Pacquiao fight, we have both signed and the fight is done and hopefully, he gets past his fight on the weekend then we go and do that fight,\u201d referring to the Filipino boxer\u2019s upcoming match against Keith Thurman on July 20. The 2004 Olympic silver medalist added, \u201cIf not, there will be other back-up plans but we wish Manny Pacquiao all the very best for this weekend\u2019s fight.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">However, the former Filipino senator\u2019s publicist Fred Sternberg stated that nothing is set in stone about this match, telling BBC, \u201cManny has not signed any contract. As far as I know, it has not even been discussed. He has been in training camp for the past eight weeks, four in the Philippines and four in the United States, and he hasn&#8217;t met Amir Khan during that time.&#8221; Pacquiao has been in Los Angeles for training sessions for the past few months for his upcoming fight with Thurman at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">When asked where the initial talk about a deal sparked from, Sternberg added, \u201cThat&#8217;s a question you need to ask Amir Khan.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Khan currently has 34 wins and five defeats under his belt, while Pacquiao stands with 61 wins, seven losses, and two draws.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Despite 32-year-old British boxer Amir Khan claiming that he will be facing eight-time champion Filipino athlete Manny Pacquiao for his &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":223332,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[44],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-223331","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\/223331","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=223331"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223331\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":223400,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223331\/revisions\/223400"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/223332"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=223331"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=223331"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=223331"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}