Gervonta Davis: record, next fight and profile →
Eddie Hearn, promoter for WBC lightweight champion Devin Haney, is looking to make some very big fights for his boxer in 2020. A few weeks ago, Haney - who had the interim-title - was elevated to the full championship status - after the World Boxing Council approved Vasiliy Lomachenko's request to become the "Franchise" champion - which is not thing more than some honorable recognition by the sanctioning body.
Gervonta Davis, Jean Pascal Video Interviews - Two-time super featherweight champion Gervonta “Tank’’ Davis, Mayweather Promotions’ top rising star and boxing’s hottest attraction, will seek to conquer another division and close out the year with a bang when he takes on former unified world champion Yuriorkis Gamboa for the WBA Lightweight Title live on SHOWTIME Saturday, December 28 from State Farm Arena in Atlanta in a special year-end Premier Boxing Champions event.
Josh Taylor (16-0, 12 KOs) is a wanted man. The newly crowned winner of the Super Lightweight World Boxing Super Series, picking up the coveted Muhammad Ali trophy and not to mention adding the WBA world title to a collection that began with the IBF strap back in May, appears to be in the crosshairs of a Floyd Mayweather Jr. protege.
Gervonta Davis capped a perfect day with talks of what he believes will be an even brighter future. Chief among the weekend highlights were a parade in his Baltimore (Maryland) hometown, in honor of the former two-time 130-pound titlist as noted in the themed Gervonta ‘Tank’ Davis Day. Hours later came a guest appearance at the hosting table for a Showtime-televised tripleheader in Reading, Pennsylvania, where the unbeaten 24-year old rising star was on hand to discuss his Dec. 28 showdown versus 2004 Olympic Gold medalist and former unified featherweight titlist Yuriorkis Gamboa at State Farm Arena in Atlanta, Georgia.
Gervonta Davis Photos Gallery - The City of Baltimore and Mayor Bernard C. “Jack” Young declared October 26 Gervonta “Tank” Davis Day following a parade Saturday up Pennsylvania Avenue to honor their hometown boxing hero. (photos by Stephanie Trapp)
Two-Time Super Featherweight World Champion Gervonta “Tank’’ Davis Moves Up to Face Former Unified Champion Yuriorkis Gamboa for WBA Lightweight Title on Saturday, December 28 Live on SHOWTIME® from State Farm Arena
Although he hopes to face the winner of the upcoming fight between Richard Commey and Teofimo López, which takes place in December, the WBC, WBO, WBA unified lightweight champion Vasiliy Lomachenko would consider fights with Gervonta Davis and Devin Haney in 2020.
Gervonta Davis (22-0, 21 KOs) is the next superstar of the sport, according to his promoter Floyd Mayweather Jr. Mayweather, a former five division world champion, was the last crossover mega-star of the sport. He retired back in August of 2017. Mayweather co-holds the top three pay-per-view buyrate records, among others.
Gervonta Davis will face Yuriorkis Gamboa in December after all. Multiple sources have confirmed to BoxingScene.com that the Davis-Gamboa bout has been scheduled for December 28. Showtime will televise Davis-Gamboa as the main event of a tripleheader that night.
Abner Mares already has his New Year's resolutions set in stone — lose some weight, and get back into the ring for one last run at a world title before retiring. Mares (31-3-1, 15 KOs), a four-time world champion across three divisions who will turn 34 years old next month, is still recovering from surgery after suffering a detached retina in his right eye shortly before his fight against Gervonta Davis, which was subsequently cancelled in February.