Overview

• Pacquiao will challenge WBC welterweight titleholder Mario Barrios at the MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas on July 19.
• He says his hand speed remains sharp and his training camp now includes extended recovery sessions to support his 46-year-old body.
• Promoter Eddie Hearn and other boxing figures have questioned whether Barrios’s youth and power could prove overwhelming.
• Fresh from his International Boxing Hall of Fame induction, Pacquiao predicts he has only two or three fights left in his career.
• WBC president Mauricio Sulaiman confirmed that Conor Benn is next in line to challenge the winner for the welterweight title.