Pacquiao to come out of retirement for title shot, according to ESPN
Manny Pacquiao will come out of retirement to face Mario Barrios for the WBC welterweight championship on July 19 in Las Vegas, ESPN reported on Thursday, citing sources.
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Manny Pacquiao will come out of retirement to face Mario Barrios for the WBC welterweight championship on July 19 in Las Vegas, ESPN reported on Thursday, citing sources.
Boxing superstar Manny Pacquiao will end his nearly four-year retirement to face Mario Barrios for the WBC welterweight championship on July 19 in Las Vegas, sources confirmed to ESPN on Thursday.
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Indian cricket team star batter Virat Kohli opened up about his 'special' relationship with childhood friend and former India teammate Ishant Sharma. Virat and Ishant played together from age group cricket and then became teammates both in domestic and international cricket. Ishant made his international debut first and one year later, Virat also followed suit. In the latest episode of the RCB podcast 'Bold and Beyond', Virat spoke about a variety of issues and said that when it comes to Ishant, he can share everything with him without any judgement. "Ishant is someone I naturally connected with, from Day 1, absolutely nothing has changed, regardless of whether we play together or we don't play together - I can absolutely share everything with him, without any judgement, with complete understanding and complete empathy. So he is very special individual in my life," Kohli said in the podcast.
The Indian Premier League (IPL) 2025 season, currently scheduled to go on till May 25, will continue normally, a Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) source told ANI on Wednesday. This follows the development this morning after the successful execution of Operation Sindoor by the Indian Armed Forces and tensions between India and Pakistan following the Pahalgam terror attack on April 22. The source told ANI that the current circumstances will not have any effect on the IPL scheduling and matches, and it will go on as scheduled. In 'Operation Sindoor' India's armed forces utilised special precision munitions to destroy nine terror targets in Pakistan and PoK in a coordinated strike.
Following Mumbai Indians (MI) loss to Gujarat Titans (GT) in a last-ball thriller, former Indian cricketer Aakash Chopra hailed pace spearhead Jasprit Bumrah for his valiant spell which almost won five-time champions the game, saying that he deserves to be the "most expensive player" in the competition. Bumrah continued to add to his list to brilliant spells as his figures of 2/19 almost prevented GT from chasing down 156 runs, but the revised target and conditions after rain were enough for GT as they pulled off a memorable last ball win, ending MI's six-match winning run and going to the top of the table.