Fringe lightweight contender Mercito Gesta (22-0-1, 12 KO’s) reportedly badly wants a fight against WBA lightweight champion Brandon Rios (28-0-1, 21 KO’s) is really hoping that Rios will give him a shot. However, Rios rightly do isn’t even slightly interested in wasting time fighting Gesta and I can’t blame him. Gesta is a complete unknown in the United States among the casual boxing fans, and he’s been looking very, very ordinary in his eight years as pro despite being matched against pretty much C level opposition each time out. This would be a terrible slaughter and hardly worth Rio’s time to fight the slow-handed, slow-footed defensively poor Gesta. Read more: http://www.boxingnews24.com/2011/07/gesta-wants-fight-with-brandon-rios/#more-73920
