Gervonta Davis: record, next fight and profile →
Gervonta Davis Training Photos Gallery - Boxing's hottest attraction Gervonta "Tank" Davis kicked off Fight Week working out in front of the Atlanta media and the city's eager boxing fans in a public workout at the Atlanta Sports Complex on Monday night. (photos by Jason McDonald)
WBO welterweight champion Terence Crawford still regards Yuriorkis Gamboa as the toughest opponent of his career. Gamboa fought Crawford in 2014, winning the first three to four rounds, and then being overcome by the size and power of Crawford, who stopped the Olympic gold medal winner in the ninth round.
Yuriorkis Gamboa Training Photos Gallery - Former unified world champion Yuriorkis Gamboa, an Olympic gold medalist from Cuba, held a media workout in Miami Wednesday as he prepares to take on boxing's hottest attraction Gervonta "Tank" Davis for the vacant WBA Lightweight Title Saturday, December 28 live on SHOWTIME from the award-winning State Farm Arena in Atlanta in a Premier Boxing Champions event. (photos by Sean Michael Ham)
When Gervonta Davis and Yuriorkis Gamboa clash for the vacant WBA Lightweight World Championship on December 28 at the award-winning State Farm Arena in Atlanta, they’ll be making history in a long-underserved boxing hotbed that has hosted monumental fights featuring Hall of Famers Muhammad Ali and Evander Holyfield.
Gervonta Davis’ overall level of competition has drawn criticism since the unbeaten Baltimore native dominated Jose Pedraza to win the IBF 130-pound title nearly three years ago. Yuriorkis Gamboa will turn 38 before he faces Davis next month, but Davis’ trainer still considers the skillful former three-division champion a true test for the powerful southpaw. The 25-year-old Davis (22-0, 21 KOs) and Gamboa (30-2, 18 KOs) will meet in a 12-round WBA lightweight title fight Showtime will televise December 28 from State Farm Arena in Atlanta.
Gervonta "Tank" Davis became a world champion for the first time in January, 2017 when he stopped Jose Pedraza in 7 rounds at the Barclays Center in Brooklyn. He followed that performance up with a 3 round demolition of Liam Walsh in the United Kingdom. Davis then punctuated his year with an 8th round stoppage of Francisco Fonseca on the Floyd Mayweather-Conor McGregor undercard.
In less than 3 weeks Gervonta Davis (22-0) will attempt to become a two-division champion when he faces Yuriorkis Gamboa (30-2) at the State Farm Arena in Atlanta, Georgia. The vacant WBA world lightweight title will be at stake in the Showtime main event.
More tickets are now available for the December 28 event at the award-winning State Farm Arena that is headlined by boxing’s hottest attraction Gervonta “Tank” Davis taking on former champion Yuriorkis Gamboa in the first world title fight in Atlanta since 1998.
On December 28th, Gervonta Davis (22-0) and Yuriorkis Gamboa (30-2) will collide for the vacant WBA world lightweight title. The fight will headline a Showtime card that will be broadcast live from the State Farm Arena in Atlanta, Georgia.
Leo Santa Cruz never thought he’d be a world champion during his formative years as a teen. When he won his first world title in 2012, he compared it to winning the lottery. Last month, Santa Cruz made his junior lightweight debut against Miguel Flores and hit the jackpot by winning a title in a fourth weight class (vacant WBA 130 pound title). In doing so, he joined recently crowned light heavyweight champion Canelo Alvarez as well as Erik Morales, Juan Manuel Marquez and Jorge Arce as the only Mexican crownholders across four divisions. Santa Cruz also has won titles at the 118, 122 and 126-pound divisions.