Boxing icon Manny Pacquiao (60-7-2, 39 KOs) recently left Top Rank and has joined the Premier Boxing Champions roster, and in less than two weeks, Pacquiao will be taking on Adrien Broner (33-3-1, 24 KOs) on a Showtime pay-per-view event in Las Vegas, Nevada. It’s Pacquiao’s first United States fight since his win over Jessie Vargas in November 2016, and Broner’s debut as a pay-per-view headliner.
At stake on January 19th — yes, this is the same night as UFC on ESPN+: Cejudo vs. Dillashaw — is Pacquiao’s WBA secondary welterweight title, which means close to nothing since Keith Thurman is the real WBA champion in that dreadful sanctioning body’s most convoluted of belt systems.