Pacquiao vs Horn officially announced

Andrew Karlov April 11, 2017, 6:54 a.m.

Promoter Bob Arum officially announced that Manny Pacquiao will defend the WBO welterweight championship against WBO#2 Jeff Horn at the 55,000 seat Suncorp Stadium, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia on July 2.

“Manny dhas been a pioneer, bringing world title fights to Cowboys Stadium, The Venetian Macao’s Cotai Arena and now Suncorp Stadium. We’re boxing’s version of Lewis & Clark, discovering new markets,” said Bob Arum. “Manny knows who will be the crowd favorite on July 1, but he can’t wait to give Australia and the world a great performance. It’s going to be unbelievable event.”

Top Rank and Duco Events will co-promote the Pacquiao vs Horn bout which is expected the break the current Australian record of a live gate which is held by the Jeff Fenech v Azumah Nelson contest in Melbourne that had 37,000 fight fans.

Watch this story: Bob Arum: 'Naoya Inoue is the best boxer I've ever seen in my life'

Alvarez excluded from The Ring magazine's P4P rankings

For the first time in seven years, Saul Alvarez (63-3-2, 39 KO) did not enter ...

Joshua will train with Usyk's team

Anthony Joshua (28-4, 25 KO) confirmed at the Friday press conference that he will prepare ...

Wardley became the new WBO champion

Fabio Wardley (20-0-1, 19 KO) became the new world heavyweight champion. The Briton won the ...

Usyk refused the championship belt under the WBO version

Oleksandr Usyk is no longer the undisputed world champion in heavyweight. According to the official ...

Joshua-Paul officially on December 19 in Miami

The fight between two-time world heavyweight champion Anthony Joshua (28-4, 25 KOs) and Jake Paul ...

Erickson Lubin plans a return in middleweight

After Saturday's defeat, Erickson Lubin (27-3, 19 KO) is not giving up and not planning ...

Comments

var _paq = window._paq = window._paq || []; _paq.push(['trackPageView']); _paq.push(['enableLinkTracking']); (function() { var u="//mm.magnet.kiev.ua/"; _paq.push(['setTrackerUrl', u+'matomo.php']); _paq.push(['setSiteId', '1']); var d=document, g=d.createElement('script'), s=d.getElementsByTagName('script')[0]; g.async=true; g.src=u+'matomo.js'; s.parentNode.insertBefore(g,s); })();

window.dataLayer = window.dataLayer || []; function gtag(){dataLayer.push(arguments);} gtag('js', new Date()); gtag('config', 'G-DPZJLB78XY');