Manny Pacquiao throws shade at Floyd Mayweather with his New Year's resolution | Inquirer Sports

Manny Pacquiao throws shade at Floyd Mayweather with his New Year’s resolution

By: - Reporter / @BLozadaINQ
/ 04:09 PM January 01, 2019

(L-R): CEO of Mayweather Promotions Leonard Ellerbe, WBC/WBA welterweight champion Floyd Mayweather Jr., WBO welterweight champion Manny Pacquiao, and Top Rank Founder and CEO Bob Arum pose during a news conference at the KA Theatre at MGM Grand Hotel & Casino on April 29, 2015 in Las Vegas, Nevada. Mayweather and Pacquiao will face each other in a unification bout on May 2, 2015 in Las Vegas. AFP PHOTO / JOHN GURZINSKI / AFP PHOTO / JOHN GURZINSKI

MANILA, Philippines—Years have already changed but the rivalry between Manny Pacquiao and Floyd Mayweather has not.

After Mayweather destroyed Japanese kickboxer Tenshin Nasukawa in exhibition-boxing match in Japan on New Year’s Eve, Manny Pacquiao couldn’t let it pass.

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Pacquiao threw shade at Mayweather’s latest conquest with a new year’s resolution.

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“Here is an early New Year’s resolution. To continue to only fight experienced opponents who are my size or bigger,” tweeted boxing’s only eight-division champion who’s busy training for his WBA World welterweight title defense against Adrien Broner.

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Clearly, Pacquiao wasn’t talking about himself.

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Pacquiao’s tweet was meant for Mayweather and a retweet that featured a video of a goat knocking down a kid captioned “The Mayweather/Tenshin fight is the funniest thing I’ve seen” immediately followed up Pacman’s tweet.

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Mayweather, Pacquiao, and Broner are all welterweights while Nasukawa, who’s fighting in his first boxing match, weighs 121 lbs and is lighter by 26 lbs than the three boxers.

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Needless to say, it was a fighting farce between Mayweather and Nasukawa.

Mayweather, a five-division World champion, floored Nasukawa thrice in the opening round prompting the Japanese fighter’s corner to throw in the towel.

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