McGregor vs Pacquiao – upcoming Fight Announced
Last week, Manny Pacquiao and Conor McGregor announced that they will fight each other in the coming months. So, here’s a little background on each man, and what makes this fight so interesting.
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Manny Pacquiao is a forty-one-year-old boxer from the Philippines and is also a senator for the country. Throughout his career, he has been known as an excellent boxer – never backing down from a challenge. This fierce competitiveness has earned him the nickname “PacMan.”
Conor McGregor is known as much more of a ‘wild man’ from Ireland. In his spare time, he is an owner of his own successful whiskey company.
McGregor is a notorious MMA fighter – not a boxer. However, this fact did not stop him from challenging the undefeated Floyd “Money” Mayweather to a boxing match.
That first cross-fight bout between the MMA and the boxing world led to one of the biggest pay-per-view matches in sports history.
It certainly got the attention of fans everywhere, even those who had never watched a boxing or MMA match before.
Expanding on the success of that event, McGregor and Pacquiao announced last week that they will fight in an, as yet, undisclosed location. Possibly in the Middle East.
McGregor chose to challenge Manny Pacquiao, because this was one of Floyd Mayweather’s final opponents before retirement. It’s a chance for McGregor to show that he is not afraid to challenge the best of the best in either discipline of fighting.
When accepting the challenge, Pacquiao announced that he would be donating his winnings to the Philippines relief fund for COVID-19.
It is still unknown as to why McGregor chose the Middle East as a possible destination to fight. Perhaps because it is geographically in the middle of the world between Ireland and the Philippines.
At this time, no specific date has been set for the fight. Some indications suggest that it could take place in December or January.
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