Fresh from rejecting what some has say as an insulting offer to fight as an undercard to the upcoming Jeff Horn bout in the US. Manny Pacquiao will be battling out in Asia, home to millions of his loyal supporters who had cheered him on from the beginning of his prolific boxing career. Often regarded as the Pride of Asia, Manny will be taking on ‘The Machine’ from South America as he battles on for his 60th title.
With millions of boxing fans in the region, the bout will definitely be among the biggest sporting event for 2018 and the biggest in Asia. Manny Pacquiao is a testament of perseverance, composure and dedication, Held in Asia, the fight presents an opportunity for fans across the region to witness Manny’s brilliance in engaging his opponent as they slug it out for the World Championship Title belt.
Manny Pacquiao is the first and only fighter in the history of boxing who is credited with lineal championships in five different weight classes (flyweight, featherweight, super featherweight, light welterweight and welterweight). He is also the third fighter in boxing history to win genuine world titles in three of the original eight divisions also known as "Major" Divisions (flyweight, featherweight, and welterweight), joining the exclusive group of Bob Fitzsimmons and Henry Armstrong. Additionally, Pacquiao has held three Ring titles in three different weight classes (featherweight, super featherweight, and light welterweight)
Manny Pacquiao is the first and only fighter in the history of boxing who is credited with lineal championships in five different weight classes (flyweight, featherweight, super featherweight, light welterweight and welterweight). He is also the third fighter in boxing history to win genuine world titles in three of the original eight divisions also known as "Major" Divisions (flyweight, featherweight, and welterweight), joining the exclusive group of Bob Fitzsimmons and Henry Armstrong. Additionally, Pacquiao has held three Ring titles in three different weight classes (featherweight, super featherweight, and light welterweight)
One of boxing's most popular fighters, Lucas "La Maquina" Matthysse has achieved that status with good reason, as his one-punch knockout power and aggressive attack in the ring always makes for exciting bouts earning him the BWAA 2014 fight of the year honors.
‘The Machine’ hailing from Argentina had just recently won his first world title defeating Thailand’s Tewa Kiram in the WBA Welterweight. A worthy opponent capable of stopping Manny’s pursuit in reaching his 60th career title. The bout will truly have boxing fans worldwide at the edge of their seat.
One of boxing's most popular fighters, Lucas "La Maquina" Matthysse has achieved that status with good reason, as his one-punch knockout power and aggressive attack in the ring always makes for exciting bouts earning him the BWAA 2014 fight of the year honors.
‘The Machine’ hailing from Argentina had just recently won his first world title defeating Thailand’s Tewa Kiram in the WBA Welterweight. A worthy opponent capable of stopping Manny’s pursuit in reaching his 60th career title. The bout will truly have boxing fans worldwide at the edge of their seat.
Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia will play host to the first of Manny Pacquiao’s Final Series. The cosmopolitan city presents the perfect stage for this epic battle which will be held at one of Asia’s leading state of the art arena , the Axiata Arena
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Fight of Champions has been over for years. The event was held on 15 July 2018 at Axiata Arena in Kuala Lumpur, and what remains here is a record of that night, not an active ticket listing. The seating notes, hospitality details and partner links are kept online because people still search for them when looking back at Pacquiao vs Matthysse.
Some original links may no longer work. Ticketing partners from 2018 may have changed, hotel offers have expired, and a few promoter pages from that period are no longer available. We have left the old wording in place where possible because researchers often want the page as it was, not a polished rewrite made years later.
When an old event link fails, the page behind it can sometimes still be checked through the Wayback Machine. Paste the old URL there and look for a capture from the weeks around July 2018.
Manny Pacquiao stopped Lucas Matthysse in the seventh round to win the WBA World Welterweight Championship. Matthysse went down from a left uppercut, took a knee near the ropes, and referee Kenny Bayless waved it off. It was Pacquiao's first stoppage win in nine years, and it came at 39 years old.
Pacquiao entered the ring at 59-7-2 and left at 60-7-2. Matthysse, who had held the belt since January of that year, dropped to 39-5 and retired soon afterwards. The fight card page keeps the full bill together, including the title fights and regional bouts that made up the Kuala Lumpur show.
For verified records, official results and bout histories, BoxRec is still the reference most boxing readers use. The World Boxing Association also keeps championship history and ratings material that can help trace the title picture before and after this event.
For Pacquiao, the Kuala Lumpur fight sits in the late-career chapter rather than the end of the story. He went on to fight Adrien Broner and Keith Thurman, later stepped away from boxing, and still returned to the ring in different forms. Readers who want the cleanest record should start with Manny Pacquiao's BoxRec profile, then compare it with current boxing news before assuming any comeback date is fixed.
Matthysse's page is more settled. His Lucas Matthysse BoxRec profile lists him as inactive, with his professional career running from 2004 to 2018. That makes this event useful as a closing marker for anyone following the Argentine's run from junior welterweight puncher to WBA welterweight champion.
For future boxing in Malaysia, there is no single old event page that should be treated as final. Check the BoxRec schedule for registered professional cards, then cross-check the promoter, venue and ticket seller before making plans. Boxing calendars move often, and smaller regional shows can change date, hall or opponent with little public notice.
The arena sits inside the Bukit Jalil National Sports Complex, south of the city centre. It was built for the 1998 Commonwealth Games as Putra Indoor Stadium and later became Axiata Arena. Indoor capacity is usually listed a little over 16,000, though a boxing layout changes the usable number once the ring, cameras and floor seating are installed.
For current venue information, use Perbadanan Stadium Malaysia, the official stadium authority under Malaysia's Ministry of Youth and Sports. It is a better starting point than old ticket graphics when checking whether the arena name, entrance arrangements or event calendar have changed.
Bukit Jalil station on the LRT Sri Petaling Line is a short walk from the complex, which made it the simplest route for many local ticket holders in 2018. For present-day routes, fares and service changes, use Rapid KL or its journey planner before leaving for the venue. Anyone researching the old event should treat the original travel and hotel notes as a snapshot of that weekend, not as current advice.
Kuala Lumpur itself has changed around the archived event. For city services, public notices and local contacts, the Kuala Lumpur City Hall official portal is the safest reference. The DBKL department covering culture, tourism and sports also gives useful context for how the city presents major events beyond boxing.
Visitors building a broader trip around a future fight night can also check Tourism Malaysia. It is not a boxing source, but it is useful for official travel information, destination material and wider Malaysia visitor updates. That matters when an old event archive is being used as a starting point for a new trip.
Large fight weekends bring different kinds of visitors into the city. Some adults looking back at Kuala Lumpur nightlife or 18+ web content may also run into age-restricted pages. Those links should be treated as adult material, especially on phones, tablets or laptops that are shared with children.
For parents and guardians, the safer use of examples such as malay sex is not to promote them, but to recognise the kind of address that may need to be added to a block list. The same applies when a browser, search result or message exposes a direct xxx page or a porn video site.
A broader directory such as malay porn sites can also be useful from a filtering point of view, because it shows many of the popular adult domains in Malaysia in one place. Families can use that kind of list to update parental control tools, DNS filters, router restrictions or device-level website limits before handing a shared device to a child.
Event sites often disappear a year or two after a show, and the record goes with them. Between the promotional copy, boxer profiles, venue notes and original schedule, there is enough here to help someone writing about Pacquiao's late career, boxing in Southeast Asia, or how a world title fight was staged in Kuala Lumpur.
The boxer profiles have not been updated since 2018. That is intentional. They describe both men as they stood going into the fight, which is usually the version that becomes harder to reconstruct later.
If you find a factual error, such as a misspelled name, a wrong weight or a result that does not match the official record, the contact page is still available. Corrections to factual details are welcome. Requests to remove or rewrite the historical record are not.
