By Steve Kim
Sampson Lewkowicz, the head of Sampson Boxing, confirms that a fight between WBA 130-pound belt-holder Jason Sosa and Gervonta Davis will not be taking place.
"I believe (Davis) has an issue with (Floyd) Mayweather,"said Lewkowicz, of 'the Tank' who is handled by Maywewather Promotions. Lewkowicz picked up options on Sosa after he defeated Javier Fortuna for the WBA title in late June in China.
Lewkowicz also rubber-stamped a recent news report on BoxingScene.com,which indicated that Sosa would be facing Stephen Smith next - "It's a done deal, (Sosa) will fight in Monaco on November 12th with Stephen Smith.
The veteran fight agent and promoter then delivered this message:
"I believe that boxing changed and it's not the prices it used to be last year and many of these people who were misled money-wise, they will pay the price and lose time because now the situation has changed and now they need to work hard for less. Or change to work from nine-to-five," Lewkowicz told BoxingScene.
It's clear that Lewkowicz believes that the money that was available in some avenues to boxers has dried up like the desert but the man best known for discovering former middleweight champion, Sergio Martinez, explains:
''It's not a drought, it's the logical amount of money it's supposed to be . Actually what it is - the prices went back to the prices that it was suppose to be last year. The over-payment of fighters that didn't deserve so much - it will stop.
"And now whoever wants to fight, they will have to work hard and get paid correctly like they are now in 2016. In 2017, God-willing it will be the same way, whoever is willing to continue their career as a boxer, it will go back to normal. Not what happened in late 2014, 2015... when everybody was over-paid."
Steve Kim is the news editor for BoxingScene.com.