{"id":66347,"date":"2025-08-14T12:23:06","date_gmt":"2025-08-14T12:23:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/66347\/"},"modified":"2025-08-14T12:23:06","modified_gmt":"2025-08-14T12:23:06","slug":"roy-jones-jr-gives-honest-verdict-on-manny-pacquiao-vs-gervonta-davis-let-me-put-it-like-this","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/66347\/","title":{"rendered":"Roy Jones Jr Gives Honest Verdict On Manny Pacquiao vs Gervonta Davis: “Let Me Put It Like This”"},"content":{"rendered":"

Boxing legend Roy Jones Jr<\/a> has weighed in on how Manny Pacquiao might fare against Gervonta Davis<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Rumours have began to circulate about a match-up between Pacquiao and \u2018Tank\u2019 taking place next, with both fighters said to be interested in facing each other should the opportunity arise.<\/p>\n

Davis currently reigns as the WBA world lightweight champion, with his most recent defence coming against countryman Lamont Roach Jr back in March. The fight was declared a split draw with many viewers believing that \u2018The Reaper\u2019 had done enough to dethrone Davis of his title. News of rematch has gone quiet, with Roach\u2019s team not holding out hope that it happens this year.<\/a><\/p>\n

As for Pacquiao, the 46-year-old Filipino icon made a sensational return to the ring last month, drawing with reigning WBC world welterweight champion Mario Barrios at the MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas on July 19.<\/a><\/p>\n

Speaking to The Ring Magazine<\/a>, Jones was asked to sum up Pacquiao\u2019s chances against a \u2018murderer\u2019s row\u2019 of the likes of Devin Haney, Brian Norman Jr, Teofimo Lopez, Ryan Garcia and Gervonta Davis.<\/p>\n

Jones said that the Filipino legend could capitalise on any who are currently \u2018struggling with their identity\u2019 in the sport \u2013 an accusation that has been levelled at \u2018Tank\u2019 by big names such as Tim Bradley.<\/a><\/p>\n

\u201cPut it like this, he not going through that \u2018Murderers Row\u2019 again, no, but he can pick and choose a few of them. A few of them he gonna give them all they want.<\/p>\n

\u201cNow some of them are gonna be the ones that are mature like they\u2019re supposed to at their age and they still have the youth, they\u2019re gonna beat him because he\u2019s not that age no more, you understand me? But the ones that are struggling, with their identity and with where and who they are right now, he\u2019ll beat most of them.\u201d<\/p>\n

Whilst it had been speculated that Pacquiao could face Barrios in a rematch next, the 46-year-old\u2019s manager Sean Gibbons has played down talks of this fight happening, as he claims \u2018PacMan\u2019 would be more interested in facing either \u2018Tank\u2019 Davis or WBA world welterweight champion Rolando \u2018Rolly\u2019 Romero instead.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Boxing legend Roy Jones Jr has weighed in on how Manny Pacquiao might fare against Gervonta Davis. Rumours…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":66348,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[2560,101,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-66347","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-boxing","8":"tag-boxing","9":"tag-sports","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66347","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=66347"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66347\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/66348"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=66347"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=66347"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=66347"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}