| (Goyang = Yonhap News) Filipino boxing hero Pacquiao looks brilliant during a bout against Korean martial artist Yoo Dae-gyeong held at KINTEX in Ilsan, Goyang-si, Gyeonggi-do on the 11th. 2022.12.11 |
Easy win as a sparring match against martial artist Yoo Dae-kyung
Legendary Filipino boxer ‘Pac-Man’ Manny Pacquiao (44) won his comeback match held in Korea.
On the 11th, Pacquiao won by unanimous decision against Korean martial artist Yoo Dae-kyung in a special boxing match held at KINTEX in Goyang City, Gyeonggi Province.
In this match, which lasted 2 minutes per round, for a total of 6 rounds, more attention was paid to Pacquiao’s physical condition after his comeback rather than winning or losing.
Pacquiao, who transitioned to professional boxing at the age of 16 and won the world’s first eight-weight division, left the ring announcing his entry into politics after losing to Yordenis Ugas (Cuba) in September of last year.
After failing the Philippine presidential election in May this year, he announced his comeback in an event match with a martial artist rather than a regular boxing match.
Until recently, Pacquiao, who was active as the best boxer in the world, faced Yoo Gyeong-kyung with light movements as if he was fighting.
In the first and second rounds, Pacquiao, who had accumulated points one by one in a search battle with the jab, showed his willingness to finish the match in the third round.
Struck by Pacquiao’s powerful punch, Yoo Dae-gyeong bowed her head as if to thank her for teaching her.
In the second half of the match, Pacquiao’s one-sided offensive continued.
Pacquiao, who began to aim for a KO for real, knocked Yoo Dae-kyung into the ring with a right hook in the 4th round.
However, the umpire ruled a slide (slide and fall), not a down.
In the 5th round, Yoo Dae-kyung complained to the referee that he was hit in the back of the head by Pacquiao’s punch, wasting almost half of the 2 minutes of the round.
Pacquiao knocked down Yoo Kyung-kyung in the last 6 rounds.
Yoo, who just got up, spent time hugging Pacquiao, and the gong announcing the end of the match rang.
Pacquiao had a clean face, barely sweated and the smile of a winner.
In an interview with the ring after the match, Pacquiao said: “I am happy to be back in the ring. I will continue to train to maintain my condition.”
When it came to returning to regular boxing matches, he said, “We’ll see.”
The previous day, in an interview with Fight Hype, an American martial arts media outlet, Pacquiao openly stated that Floyd Mayweather was avoiding him out of fear of a rematch and asked him to fight in a regular 12-round match.
Pacquiao lost to Mayweather by decision in the 2015 “Fight of the Century”, which cost more than 450 billion won in the match fee alone.
Pacquiao taunted, saying, “I don’t know if Mayweather will accept (fighting me) because he always changes his decisions.”
