{"id":26015,"date":"2026-02-18T20:38:30","date_gmt":"2026-02-18T20:38:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/manny-pacquiao-to-face-ruslan-provodnikov-in-exhibition-on-18-april\/"},"modified":"2026-02-18T20:38:30","modified_gmt":"2026-02-18T20:38:30","slug":"manny-pacquiao-to-face-ruslan-provodnikov-in-exhibition-on-18-april","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/manny-pacquiao-to-face-ruslan-provodnikov-in-exhibition-on-18-april\/","title":{"rendered":"Manny Pacquiao to face Ruslan Provodnikov in exhibition on 18 April"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">Veteran Manny Pacquiao will face former light-welterweight world champion Ruslan Provodnikov in an exhibition on 18 April.<\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Pacquiao, 47, ended a four-year stint of retirement in July when <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/boxing\/articles\/cgjgqzjez8wo\" class=\"ssrcss-18834jl-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\">losing by majority draw<\/a> against WBC welterweight champion Mario Barrios.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The eight-weight world champion called for a rematch after that defeat but has since switched his direction of travel and will compete in an exhibition bout.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Pacquiao and Provodnikov, who retired in 2016, will fight in a 10-round exhibition at Thomas and Mack Center in Las Vegas.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I carry the Philippines with me every time I fight,&#8221; Pacquiao said. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;The support from my country and from fans around the world continues to inspire me. I&#8217;m coming back to give them a great fight &#8211; and I&#8217;m ready.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Returning to Las Vegas means so much to me.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/boxing\/articles\/c3wlx6847nwo?at_medium=RSS&#038;at_campaign=rss\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Veteran Manny Pacquiao will face former light-welterweight world champion Ruslan Provodnikov in an exhibition on 18 April. Pacquiao, 47, ended a four-year stint of retirement in July when losing by majority draw against WBC welterweight champion Mario Barrios. The eight-weight world champion called for a rematch after that defeat but has since switched his direction [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":26016,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26015","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-boxing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26015","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26015"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26015\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26017,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26015\/revisions\/26017"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26016"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26015"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26015"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26015"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}