{"id":40778,"date":"2025-08-02T02:11:06","date_gmt":"2025-08-02T02:11:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/40778\/"},"modified":"2025-08-02T02:11:06","modified_gmt":"2025-08-02T02:11:06","slug":"manny-pacquiao-reveals-the-exact-weight-he-is-willing-to-make-for-gervonta-davis-fight-to-happen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/40778\/","title":{"rendered":"Manny Pacquiao Reveals The Exact Weight He Is Willing To Make For Gervonta Davis Fight To Happen"},"content":{"rendered":"

Manny Pacquiao<\/a> remains keen on the idea of a showdown with Gervonta Davis<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The 46-year-old Filipino great made a sensational return to the ring last month, fighting to a majority decision draw against reigning WBC Welterweight World Champion Mario Barrios at the MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas, Nevada on July 19.<\/p>\n

Pacquiao has said that he will likely be continuing with his boxing career after drawing with \u2018El Azteca\u2019, and his advisor Sean Gibbons says that the eight-division world champion is seriously considering a showdown with WBA Lightweight World Champion \u2018Tank\u2019 Davis next.<\/p>\n

Davis held on to his belt against countryman Lamont Roach Jr last time out in March, although this didn\u2019t come without controversy after the fight was declared a split decision draw with many feeling the challenger had done enough.<\/p>\n

Speaking in an interview prior to facing Barrios, Pacquiao showed his interest in the match-up but said that \u2018Tank\u2019 must agree to a catchweight of 145lbs at a minimum.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf he comes up to 147 then we can fight \u2026 145 maybe.\u201d<\/p>\n

Davis has only fought as high as 140, coincidentally also against Barrios, whom he stopped in the eleventh round back in 2021.<\/p>\n

Pacquiao was then asked how he would handle the \u2018explosiveness\u2019 of the hard-hitting WBA lightweight champion.<\/p>\n

\u201cOh that\u2019s not a problem for me because I\u2019m experienced fighter.\u201d<\/p>\n

Other options for Pacquiao outside of a Barrios rematch are two of Davis\u2019 former opponents: Ryan Garcia and Rolando Romero.<\/a> As for \u2018Tank\u2019, who was recently arrested on a domestic violence charge<\/a>, he was expected to rematch Roach, but the challenger has recently said that he is now sceptical it ever happens.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Manny Pacquiao remains keen on the idea of a showdown with Gervonta Davis. The 46-year-old Filipino great made…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":40779,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[447],"tags":[703,49,48,82],"class_list":["post-40778","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\/40778","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=40778"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40778\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/40779"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40778"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40778"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40778"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}