majority draw<\/a> decision enabling Barrios to keep his World Boxing Council (WBC) belt was a sham.<\/p>\n\u201cManny Pacquiao beat Mario Barrios. What\u2019s the need to fight him again? If Manny wants to fight again, there are fighters like Rolly Romero, there are fighters like Gervonta Davis,\u201d said Gibbons.<\/p>\n
Romero holds the World Boxing Association (WBA) welterweight belt with a 17-2 record, 13 by knockout, while Davis is the WBA lightweight king with a 30-win, 28 by knockout, 1-draw slate.<\/p>\n
Given the choice, Gibbons prefers Romero over the hard-hitting Davis.<\/p>\n
\u201cRolly Romero would be an unbelievably fun fight. Romero just beat Ryan Garcia. Rolly Romero and Manny Pacquiao would be a hell of a promotion.\u201d<\/p>\n
The reason why Gibbons doesn\u2019t want another Barrios fight is nothing personal. It\u2019s promotional by nature.<\/p>\n
\u201cNot a knock on Barrios. I like him. I like everybody around him, but he doesn\u2019t move the needle. He\u2019s just a nice person. Nobody wants to see a nice person. You need a Rolly Romero, you need a Gervonta Davis,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
\u201cMaybe it\u2019s Gervonta Davis that could happen, and for once in his life, Manny is actually going to be bigger than his opponent, size-wise. So those are the real names out there Rolly Romero and Gervonta.\u201d<\/p>\n
And if negotiations push through, Gibbons sees the fight happening either late November or December.<\/p>\n
That would give Pacquiao enough time to put his 46-year-old body back to shape. Unlike in the Barrios fight where he had to compress training in seven weeks. \u2013 Rappler.com<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"This is AI generated summarization, which may have errors. For context, always refer to the full article. If…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":11161,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[447],"tags":[703,49,48,82],"class_list":["post-11160","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-boxing","tag-boxing","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11160","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11160"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11160\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11161"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11160"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11160"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11160"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}