The boxer Manny Pacquiao has announced his comeback on Wednesday. The 46-year-old Filipino will re-enter the ring in Las Vegas in almost four years.
Pacquiao will box against Mario Barrios on July 19 in Las Vegas for the WBC world title in the welterweight division. In 2019, at the age of forty, he became the oldest world champion ever in that weight class.
Pacquiao is the only boxer to have won world titles in eight different weight classes. In 2021, he ended his career to focus on politics.
In 2010, Pacquiao was elected as a representative of the province of Sarangani, and six years later, he entered the Senate of the Philippines. Earlier this week, Pacquiao’s plan to return to the Senate failed. He was not re-elected.
“I’m back. Let’s make history,” Pacquiao writes in the announcement of his comeback in the boxing world. He won 62 of his 72 matches as a professional. Barrios, a Mexican-American boxer, has won 29 of his 32 matches.