{"id":3863,"date":"2015-08-07T18:13:08","date_gmt":"2015-08-07T18:13:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/?p=3863"},"modified":"2015-08-07T18:13:08","modified_gmt":"2015-08-07T18:13:08","slug":"pacquiao-rematch-unlikely-as-mayweather-wants-easy-fights-before-retirement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/?p=3863","title":{"rendered":"Pacquiao rematch unlikely  as Mayweather wants &#8216;easy&#8217; fights before retirement"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">MANILA, Philippines<\/span><\/strong> \u2014 Chances for a rematch between Manny Pacquiao and Floyd Mayweather Jr. are slim as the undefeated American will reportedly opt to take the easier rout as he nears retirement.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>In a report by David Mayo of mlive.com, Mayweather\u2019s father said the boxer is planning to retire after fighting for the last time in September.<\/p>\n<p>That fight, according to the elder Mayweather, will be against a light opponent.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Floyd told me he just wants to get a couple of easy fights,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>If this is true, then fans can kiss goodbye their hopes for a Mayweather-Pacquiao rematch. The two boxers fought last May in what ended up as boxing\u2019s richest fight ever, with Mayweather winning a unanimous decision.<\/p>\n<p>Although the bout failed to live up to the hype action-wise, it smashed pay-per-view and revenue records that a rematch is a logical choice for Mayweather and Pacquiao. <strong>(Philstar.com)<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MANILA, Philippines \u2014 Chances for a rematch between Manny Pacquiao and Floyd Mayweather Jr. are slim as the undefeated American will reportedly opt to take the easier rout as he nears retirement.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[65],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3863"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3863"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3863\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3863"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3863"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3863"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}