Manny Pacquiao training footage before fight vs Mario Barrios for WBC welterweight world title, video, Tim Tszyu vs Sebastian Fundora 2 WBC super welterweight world title

Manny Pacquiao has been captured throwing hands in a sizzling workout video that has the 46-year-old’s team convinced he still has the speed, and power, to shock the boxing world via yet another highlight reel KO.

Only five weeks out from his hyped return to the ring, Fox Sports Australia has obtained exclusive footage from inside Pacquiao’s training camp at Wild Card boxing gym in Los Angeles – and with longtime trainer Freddie Roach watching on.

While lasting only 21 seconds, the clip shows exactly why Team Pacquiao are tipping their superstar client to not simply upset WBC welterweight king Mario Barrios in Las Vegas on July 20 – but win via knockout.

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Speaking recently about the return, Pacquiao’s Australian strength and conditioning coach Justin Fortune tipped a KO victory for his charge – “it won’t go the distance” – while longtime cornerman Buboy Fernandez also shrugged off concerns about his best friend’s age and time out of the ring.

“Don’t judge the number,” he grinned on arrival into the US, “judge the punch”.

Wonderfully, it is Buboy holding the pads for Pacquiao in his latest training clip.

Elsewhere, separate footage from the Australian training camp of Tim Tszyu also shows the Sydneysider in outstanding shape ahead of his own world title rematch against America’s towering WBC champ Sebastian Fundora.

Now 15 years on from their first meeting inside the MGM Grand, Tszyu and Pacquaio are looking to go light up the same venue in what looms as one of the year’s most watched boxing blockbusters.

While Tszyu has opened a slight favourite over Fundora for the rematch of his 2024 Las Vegas bloodbath, Pacquiao is a lengthy $3.80 TAB outsider against Barrios, who is himself paying just $1.27.

Yet while it has now been almost four years since Pac Man’s last fight – a WBA world title loss against Yordenis Ugas – the latest footage of him hitting mitts is sure to excite fight fans.

Since disappearing from the fight game four years ago, the global superstar has tried becoming president of the Philippines, then senator, while also taking two exhibition bouts against a South Korean Youtuber and Japanese kickboxer.

Due to a WBC ruling that allows retired former champions to ask for a world title fight, the global superstar boasting belts across eight divisions is now back and gunning for yet another slice of sporting immortality.

Arriving in the US for camp only a few weeks ago, Buboy shrugged off critics suggesting his best mate has no chance of victory given how he looked in his most recent exhibition, against Japanese kickboxer Rukiya Anpo last July.

“This coming fight,” the trainer countered, “is a real fight.

“This is a big fight”.

Pushed on concerns over Pacquiao’s age and long absence from the ring, the cornerman grinned and replied: “Don’t judge the number, judge the punch.

“Manny Pacquiao is still strong.”

Of course, while hitting the pads is one thing, and trying to find Barrios something else entirely, Pacquaio fans will be buoyed by the footage of a fighter now looking to rewrite the record books.

Should he win, Pacquiao will become the first fighter already inducted into the International Boxing Hall of Fame to win a world title.

That, and the oldest fighter to win a welterweight championship, breaking a record he set himself when defeating Keith Thurman for the WBA strap, aged 40.

Speaking with ESNEWS recently, Fortune suggested the former world champ was not simply winding back the clock this camp, but reviving the same form that earned world title wins over both Thurman and Adrian Broner back in 2019.

“Listen, on the mitts and bags, they don’t punch back,” the S&C coach conceded. “But (Manny) looks the same as he did six or seven years ago.

“He hasn’t missed a beat.”

When asked about how the fight plays out, Fortune backed his man to win by KO.

“Barrios gets hit a lot,” the trainer said. “And (Manny) is the last person you want to get hit a lot by.

“I think it’s a stoppage. It won’t go the distance.”

Tszyu, meanwhile, will spend almost all of this camp training in Australia.

A fortnight out from the fight, he will then jet Stateside with his team to finalise proceedings at the Split T Boxing gym in Las Vegas.

As part of the build, Team Tszyu have decided to use a small crew of elite sparring partners which includes American Mykal Fox – a 6’3’’ southpaw who, dubbed The Professor, also worked briefly with the Aussie prior to his first Fundora fight.

Fox has been flown Down Under to help prepare Tszyu for a champion who stands 197cm and boasts a 203cm reach.