It's good to see Pacquiao back in the ring even though it's a promotion fight. It's obvious who will win in this match. I've seen a few videos of DK Yoo on youtube and had no idea he is a martial artist. As long as the fight's proceeds go somewhere else and it will benefit those who are in need it will be worth promoting. I am really not a fan of exhibition match since most boxer who does this do it for the money, take Mayweather and Logan Paul for instance. If you retire from boxing keep it as it is, stop for good and stop going back just to make some money. Not to mention most of it are scripted.
There could be hard fans like you who doesn't want exhibition matches, but what can you do? this boxers will need to earn money again, and in this case, easy money as this is the only way they know how to make ends meet.
So Mayweather and Paul Brothers started this whole even, but as you know, Floyd is very smart, taking fight after fight and in just matter of minutes earning millions without having to sweat it out, like Jake Paul recently against Anderson Silva.
I don't really see any reason why the fans would be against such fights. It's not a continuation of a career, it's just another activity. With their fame, they could go on a cooking show and make a lot of money too, but the best ex-pros can do is in the ring, so it's not surprising that they end up there again.
It is necessary to separate a professional career and everything else. Boxers, even if they ended their career at the age of 40, cannot go to a monastery for the sake of remembering themselves as just a pro and not doing anything else.
Best explanation so far for those people who are against exhibition fights that the legendaries themselves are making. We cannot really stop them if they wanted to make that happen because they loved the sport and that's what they've been doing since their teenage years, also, they can still make millions from it. So, let's say that you're one of those legendaries, wouldn't you make the same decision too? I bet you'll say yes.
Well it is a fact, when we stop to think, those boxers have the right to have their money and that is the only way they learned throughout their lives how to make money, and since they are Legends, in this case I consider Pacquiao Legend, How many of us don't wish Tyson would come back even in exhibition fights? and there is someone to rescue here, he still has his chance, even though his health is a bit poor he can do it, if he recovers I would be fascinated to see him win, because he will not accept any defeat even playing, so these things that some of us would like to see again, because Pacquiao is doing them.
Not really, so we believe that Pacman will just be okay with losing? Which is more important, Pacman's legacy or DK Yoo's business? I guess both have important name to protect, so they will try to win to stay popular, so I'm hoping there's no script to follow.
If Pacquaio is losing against a big name boxer like Mayweather, he wouldn't mind about it. But DK Yoo is really unknown since he's from MMA and he haven't coached a good MMA fighter that can qualify for UFC fight, so he's literally just a local MMA coach. I think the script is make Pacquiao will win this fight since he said he will back in professional career after he won this exhibition fight. Also there's no bookies added this fight which mean there's no hype.
Is Pacquiao really thinking about making a comeback to professional boxing? Because as incredible as he was as a boxer I think his best days are behind him and maybe it is a better idea for him to embrace his retirement, after all an exhibition fight does not have anywhere near the same intensity as a professional fight, and even if I still think he can beat the majority of the boxers in his division out there, it would be difficult for him to beat a champion.
It's a mixed report though, others say that he is going to be back in the ring and try again, but obviously, he is just playing it 'safe' in this exhibition matches. And I think majority here will agree that it's better for Manny to retire in the professional level, he has nothing to proved anymore. Let the younger generation took over the 147 lbs division, we have Spence and Crawford and others already.
So we will see him in the ring again, but it's just a exhibition match and me being a fan, I'm cool with that.
And maybe there will be more exhibitions for him in the future.
In particular, I would like the Legend Pacquiao to return to the ring as a professional, I know that many like to have Pacquiao in exhibition fights, the truth is less effort, less stress, it is something that is very comfortable and that everything they are in their comfort zone and that he himself can feel comfortable, but there is nothing like the emotion of doing a really great fight, that his preparation is much stronger, that the fights are of great emotion, that he hardly intervenes the technical aspect, because Pacquiao is a fighter who goes to blows as he is, leaves the technical aside (as it should be) and adds emotion to any fight, one of those fights that we like so much.
