Manny Pacquiao has not scored a win in six years, and Gervonta Davis hasn’t scored a win in over a year.
It has been over 2,200 days since Manny Pacquiao scored his last victory. He came extremely close as he fought to a draw against Mario Barrios at the age of 46, a fight that, in the eyes of many, Pacquiao ought to have won.
Gervonta Davis, meanwhile, is coming off his most criticized performance as he fought to a draw against Lamont Roach. Roach would’ve won the fight if Davis taking a knee had been counted as a knockdown, as it should’ve been.
Davis hasn’t secured a win in over 400 days.
Though both men are coming off draws and hoping to rebuild, it is their most recent victims who are rumored to be rebuilding in a big way on the same card.
Keith Thurman and Frank Martin to face tough opposition on same card
In Pacquiao’s latest fight, he drew with Barrios, in the fight before he lost to Yordenis Ugas. His last win occurred back in 2019, when Pacquiao defeated Keith Thurman by split decision, with a knockdown in the first round making all the difference.
Thurman, now 31-1, took three years off of boxing after the loss, before returning to defeat Barrios by unanimous decision in 2022.
After the win, Thurman went dark for another three years, before reappearing earlier this year against Australian Brock Jarvis, whom he blitzed in three rounds.
Thurman is rumored to be in talks to face 23-0 Vergil Ortiz Jr. next. Ortiz is on a great run of form having spent two years between 2022 and 2024 out of the ring, and has defeated Serhii Bohachuk and Israil Madrimov in his last two fights.
The fight is an extremely tough one for Thurman, who Pacquiao named a dog after, to take, though there is an equally tough match-up on the undercard.
Gervonta Davis’s last victim was Frank Martin, who Davis stopped in eight rounds, marking Tank’s fourth KO in a row after outpointing Isaac Cruz in 2021.
Martin is in talks to face Arnold Barboza Jr., who took his first loss recently to Teofimo Lopez, and defeated Jack Catterall one fight earlier.
Both Thurman and Martin will take on these tough challenges on the same card, if reports are accurate.
Interestingly, Pacquiao himself may also face Rolly Romero, Davis’ former foe, though this would not be on the same card as Thurman or Martin’s fights.
Keith Thurman vs Vergil Ortiz & Frank Martin vs Arnold Barboza – The stats
With these fights rumored to land on a PBC vs Golden Boy card in October, it is worth assessing how much chance each fighter has against the other.
On one hand, Thurman and Martin will both be disadvantaged by their periods of inactivity, with Martin having not fought since his loss to Davis and Thurman having stepped into the ring just twice in the last six years.
Ortiz is also on an impressive run at the moment, and despite Barboza’s recent loss, he is also in formidable form having fought multiple times against high level opposition recently.
| Keith Thurman | Vergil Ortiz | |
| Record | 31-1 | 23-0 |
| Best win | Shawn Porter, Danny Garcia | Israil Madrimov, Serhii Bohachuk |
| Height | 5’9.5″ | 5’10” |
| KO% | 68% | 91% |
| Frank Martin | Arnold Barboza | |
| Record | 18-1 | 32-1 |
| Best win | Artem Harutyunyan | Jack Catterall |
| Height | 5’8″ | 5’9″ |
| KO% | 63% | 33% |