{"id":313753,"date":"2015-12-31T22:28:47","date_gmt":"2015-12-31T22:28:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ghana-mma.com\/manny-pacquiao-set-to-fight-timothy-bradley-on-return-to-ring\/"},"modified":"2015-12-31T22:28:47","modified_gmt":"2015-12-31T22:28:47","slug":"manny-pacquiao-set-to-fight-timothy-bradley-on-return-to-ring","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2015\/12\/31\/manny-pacquiao-set-to-fight-timothy-bradley-on-return-to-ring\/","title":{"rendered":"Manny Pacquiao set to fight Timothy Bradley on return to ring"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> [ad_1]<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"bodytext\" readability=\"58.040084388186\">\n<p>Manny Pacquiao is set to return to the ring with a fight against Timothy Bradley in Las Vegas on 9 April, according to promoter Bob Arum.<\/p>\n<p>Pacquiao, 37, has not fought since he was convincingly beaten on points by Floyd Mayweather in May.<\/p>\n<p>Arum claims the Filipino&#8217;s fight against WBO welterweight champion Bradley, 32, is a &#8220;done deal&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>The pair have fought twice before, with Bradley victorious in June 2012 and Pacquaio winning in April 2014.<\/p>\n<p>Arum claims he has agreed deals with both fighters, though the paperwork for the bout has yet to be finalised.<\/p>\n<p>Britain&#8217;s Amir Khan had been hoping to fight six-weight world champion Pacquiao.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;They didn&#8217;t feel Khan would do anything,&#8221; Arum told the Los Angeles Times.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;He has a spotty record, hasn&#8217;t done great ratings. Why would we feel he&#8217;d do well on pay-per-view?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Follow Joy Sports on Twitter: @Joy997FM. Our hashtag is #JoySports<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>[ad_2]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ad_1] Manny Pacquiao is set to return to the ring with a fight against Timothy Bradley in Las Vegas on 9 April, according to promoter Bob Arum. Pacquiao, 37, has not fought since he was convincingly beaten on points by Floyd Mayweather in May. Arum claims the Filipino&#8217;s fight against WBO welterweight champion Bradley, 32, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-313753","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/313753","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=313753"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/313753\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=313753"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=313753"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=313753"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}