Well, even if he is a martial artist it will not help him to win because this exhibition fight is a boxing fight.
Pacquiao retired because was already old but not old enough to dominate in this kind of exhibition fight. Admit it or not, this fight is only for the purpose of making money because if we really like to see an entertaining boxing fight, Pacman should only fight a retire professional boxer like him.
It's really like the setup of the Paul matches, they're asking to fight against that other professional in other sports and challenge them in a boxing ring.
That really makes sense to them because they're at an advantage if they know how to box while those professionals can't and have a different discipline with their sport.
The same as this match for Pacquiao and Yoo, this is just an exhibition match, and these organizers might be seeing that big money is on there and we'll get to see more popular athletes doing exhibition matches in boxing for the sake of money, entertainment and charity.
but it is very strange to see a fight in which there is a professional boxing guy fighting a person who is not a boxing professional and knows several fighting styles, the professional boxing guy already has a great field of boxing and has a great experience, he knows almost all the boxing tricks and the guy who isn't even a boxing professional doesn't have real experience of having faced a lot of boxers, and it's a fight where the professional boxing guy clearly has a big advantage, if it weren't for one exhibition fight the winner would be clear, and I doubt anyone would even risk betting on DK Yoo if this was a serious fight.
Pacquiao is a specialist, the other is a generalist, and the bout is a boxing match which gives Pacquiao a huge edge. I can clearly see that Pacquiao will try to hold back and give the viewers their money's worth, but for sure they all just want to see if Pacquiao's still got it inside the ring. There are rumors that if DK Yoo is defeated, Pacquiao would seek another exhibition match. Seems like the old man is just itching to get it going and prove to the world that his title is something that is worthy of him.
I don't think DK Yoo is an equal opponent for him and Pacman is very likely to win that fight but because of the exhibition fight then he won't beat him easily but he might adapt to the opponents character and abilities, I'm not that interesting to watch unless they fight seriously and have personal grudges to settle in that fight.
usually fighters spend months preparing, they train hard to improve their skills as much as possible, they make a lot of effort so that they can give their maximum in the fight and who knows how to win the fight, but in this case of exhibition fighting it's the opposite, the fighters they probably spend months training how to reduce their skills so that when it's time for the fight they don't get heavy against the weak opponent, that's something that even makes me laugh just imagining how the professional fighter is at the time of training. example: the coach should say to him: " now punch very lightly, very calmly, very calmly, okay, now give a very light kick, that " must be really funny
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.
It was Logan Paul and KSI that started all that exhibition fight or boxing with celebrity thing. The main popularity of exhibition fights or "unusual boxing match" kind of thing started from Floyd Mayweather vs Conan McGregor fight. They have created all that hype around boxer vs "other non boxer" fights. But, if their fight was more or less competitive, then other fights are only to get money.
the current exhibition fights are generating money, if they weren't generating money I wouldn't be wasting time to organize the exhibition fights, the strange point is putting an expensive boxing professional against a guy who is not a professional boxer but who knows several fights . this means that the professional boxer has to spend many months training how to contain his strength and how to strike the opponent without hurting him, it must be a very fun task