{"id":43427,"date":"2015-02-25T01:25:21","date_gmt":"2015-02-24T17:25:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=43427"},"modified":"2015-02-25T01:25:21","modified_gmt":"2015-02-24T17:25:21","slug":"pacquiao-not-cowed-by-mayweathers-height-advantage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2015\/02\/25\/pacquiao-not-cowed-by-mayweathers-height-advantage\/","title":{"rendered":"Pacquiao not cowed by Mayweather&#8217;s height advantage"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_1532\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1532\" style=\"width: 1024px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/Page-41-manny-pacquiao-1024.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1532\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/Page-41-manny-pacquiao-1024.jpg\" alt=\"People's Champ Manny 'Pacman' Pacquiao (HBO.com)\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/Page-41-manny-pacquiao-1024.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/Page-41-manny-pacquiao-1024-300x168.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1532\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">People&#8217;s Champ Manny &#8216;Pacman&#8217; Pacquiao (HBO.com)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>MANILA \u2013 Filipino boxing superstar Manny Pacquiao is not to be cowed by the height and reach advantage of undefeated Floyd Mayweather Jr. when the two face each other on May 2 in a highly-anticipated showdown of the century in Las Vegas.<\/p>\n<p>\u201dI know that Mayweather enjoys height and reach advantage but I\u2019m not concerned because I\u2019m used of fighting taller fighters,\u201d Pacquiao said in television interview.<\/p>\n<p>Pacquiao said it would depend on how Mayweather uses his advantage inside the ring.<\/p>\n<p>\u201dAll I have to do is to prepare for this fight,\u201d Pacquiao, who sports 57-5-3 ring record, said.<\/p>\n<p>Pacquiao, a congressman of Saranggani province, said he had already asked House Speaker Sonny Belmonte to allow him to focus first in his much-awaited fight with the American world champion.<\/p>\n<p>\u201dI hope the people will understand that I will do it not only for me and my family but for the whole nation,\u201d Pacquiao said.<\/p>\n<p>He also delegated his assistant coach Glenn Capacio to take charge the Kia Sorrento, one of the 12 teams participating in the ongoing PBA Commissioner\u2019s Cup.<\/p>\n<p>Pacquiao is the playing-coach of the Kia Carnival.<\/p>\n<p>Pacquiao is the current WBO welterweight champion while Mayweather, who remains undefeated in 47 fights, is the WBC title holder.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MANILA \u2013 Filipino boxing superstar Manny Pacquiao is not to be cowed by the height and reach advantage of undefeated &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":1532,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1482,44],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-43427","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-breaking","category-sports","mauthors-jelly-f-musico","mauthors-philippines-news-agency"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43427","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=43427"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43427\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1532"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43427"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43427"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43427"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}