{"id":74513,"date":"2025-08-16T16:59:07","date_gmt":"2025-08-16T16:59:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/74513\/"},"modified":"2025-08-16T16:59:07","modified_gmt":"2025-08-16T16:59:07","slug":"ggg-trainer-abel-sanchez-delivers-honest-verdict-on-pacquiao-vs-gervonta-davis-as-fight-targeted","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/74513\/","title":{"rendered":"GGG Trainer Abel Sanchez Delivers Honest Verdict On Pacquiao vs Gervonta Davis As Fight Targeted"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Gennady Golovkin\u2019s former trainer Abel Sanchez has shared his thoughts on a potential clash between <a href=\"https:\/\/www.secondsout.com\/topic\/gervonta-davis\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Gervonta Davis<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.secondsout.com\/topic\/manny-pacquiao\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Manny Pacquiao<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>It has been reported over the last few weeks that eight-division world champion Pacquiao could lock horns with WBA lightweight champion Davis at some stage in the near future, with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.secondsout.com\/news\/pacquiao-demand-for-davis-as-barrios-out\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">\u2018PacMan\u2019s manager Sean Gibbons saying they are targeting a clash against either Davis or WBA welterweight champion Rolando Romero<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The 46-year-old Filipino icon made a sensational return to the ring last month <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/boxing\/story\/_\/id\/45780217\/manny-pacquiao-46-battles-mario-barrios-majority-draw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">when he fought to a majority decision draw against WBC welterweight champion Mario Barrios,<\/a> although many viewers felt Pacquiao had done enough to be declared the winner.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018Tank\u2019 made his most recent ring appearance back in March, fighting to a majority decision draw against fellow countryman Lamont Roach Jr. A rematch between the pair had been pencilled in to take place this month, but these plans were squandered when Davis was arrested on a domestic violence charge earlier this summer, though those charges have now been dropped.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/BZJrKUXdWoQ?si=Y_pXlH9LL9JlL_8X&amp;t=742\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Speaking to Boxing News<\/a>, Sanchez admitted that he would \u2018love to see\u2019 a fight between Pacquiao and Davis happen next.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cGervonta Davis [vs. Pacquiao] that\u2019s a fight that I would love to see, Gervonta Davis is one of my favourite fighters, that would be a good fight and it\u2019s a smaller guy so yeah. I could see that happening and it\u2019s a draw for both guys, and I don\u2019t think Manny would have the danger of say a \u2018Boots\u2019 or somebody like Vergil [Ortiz] or somebody at that welterweight division that\u2019s young and a champion but the \u2018Tank\u2019 Davis fight would be an interesting fight, I would love to see that one.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>It had been rumoured that Pacquiao could face Barrios in a rematch next, although <a href=\"https:\/\/www.secondsout.com\/news\/pacquiao-vs-barrios-rematch-ruled-out\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Gibbons debunked these rumours and has ruled out running it back<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Gennady Golovkin\u2019s former trainer Abel Sanchez has shared his thoughts on a potential clash between Gervonta Davis and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":74514,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[447],"tags":[703,49,48,82],"class_list":["post-74513","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\/74513","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=74513"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74513\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/74514"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=74513"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=74513"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=74513"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}