"I want to tell the fans that I do not take Ugas lightly," Pacquiao said at the virtual presser on Wednesday. But the 42-year-old has made it clear that despite the change in opponent, he isn't overlooking Ugas whatsoever and is excited at the fact all the hard training he put in won't go wasted. Some feel Ugas is an easy win for Pacquaio. While 99 percent of fighters wouldn't taken on someone as tough as Ugas on short notice, Pacquiao wanted to please his fans and not waste an entire training camp with no clear result of the hard work he's put in.
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In an inexplicable move, the sanctioning body stripped Pacquiao of the championship and declared him the "champion in recess" and moved Ugas up full champion. The senator from the Phillippines returns for the first time since July 2019 when he knocked Keith Thurman down in the first round on his way to a split-decision win to become the oldest fighter to win a world title, taking Thurman's WBA (super) belt at the age of 40. Instead of another megafight getting pushed back or scrapped all together, WBA 147-pound champion Yordenis Ugas will step up from the co-main event to challenge boxing's only eight-division world champion at the T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas. However, as 2021 has shown boxing fans, you don't always get what you want as Spence had to pull out of the fight due to a retinal tear in his left eye. for Spence's IBF and WBC welterweight titles.
This was the week boxing fans had circled on their calendar as Manny Pacquiao was set to challenge Errol Spence Jr.
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