Gervonta Davis: record, next fight and profile →
When asked why he thinks he’ll beat Liam Walsh, Gervonta Davis didn’t search for some diplomatic response. The unbeaten Baltimore native was blunt. “To be completely honest, I’m just on a whole different level,” Davis said during a conference call Wednesday. “Not to write Liam Walsh off. ‘Oh, he’s a British fighter,’ but I’m on a whole different level right now.”
NEW YORK – America’s youngest world champion, Gervonta Davis, will make his first world title defense in the opening bout and featherweight world champion Gary Russell Jr. will make his mandatory world title defense in the main event of a split-site, four-fight SHOWTIME CHAMPIONSHIP BOXING event on Saturday, May 20, live on SHOWTIME at 6 p.m. ET/3 p.m. PT*.
Liam Walsh hopes hammering WBO Super-Featherweight Champion Gervonta Davis later this month will be a step towards a ‘Battle of Britain’ against Terry Flanagan. Unbeaten Walsh challenges Davis, who is being touted to take his promoter Floyd Mayweather Jr’s mantle as boxing’s number one star, at London’s Copper Box Arena on May 20.
IBF Super-Featherweight World Champion Gervonta Davis has promised to capitalise on any Liam Walsh mistakes when the rivals battle it out at London's Copper Box Arena on May 20, live on BT Sport and BoxNation. The 19-0 Floyd Mayweather protege is deep into his training camp ahead of the first defence of his World Title and is confident he will be returning to the US with his belt.
Undefeated Cromer hero Liam Walsh believes his long-awaited World Title shot against IBF Champion Gervonta Davis has come at the perfect time. Floyd Mayweather protege Davis makes the first defence of his World Title against mandatory challenger Walsh at London's Copper Box Arena on Saturday 20th May, live on BT Sport and BoxNation.
Undefeated WBO Inter-Continental Super-Lightweight Champion Jack Catterall is backing Liam Walsh to dethrone IBF King Gervonta Davis when the pair clash in a blockbuster World Title showdown at the Copper Box Arena on Saturday 20th May, live on BT Sport and BoxNation.
With less than four weeks until the IBF World Super-Featherweight Title fight between Floyd Mayweather protege Gervonta Davis and challenger Liam Walsh, the tension is beginning to build. On May 20th, 'Tank' Davis makes the first defence of his strap at the Copper Box Arena, where the Mayweather hype train will roll into London.
The war of words continues between former friends IBF super featherweight champion Gervonta "Tank" Davis (17-0, 16 KOs) and former four division world champion Adrien Broner (33-2, 24 KOs). Broner WENT OFF on the undefeated 22-year-old fighter earlier this week in an n-word laden, homophobic tirade ... and even blasted Floyd Mayweather for allowing Tank on The Money Team.
For reasons that are not entirely clear at the moment, there appears to be a full blown rivalry brewing between IBF super featherweight world champion Gervonta Davis (17-0, 16 KOs) and four division world champion Adrien Broner (33-2, 24 KOs).
When Gervonta Davis burst onto the global scene and parted Jose Pedraza from his IBF world super featherweight title back in January, the commentators and pundits were lavish with the praise and plaudits over the exploits of the Baltimore banger. Terms such as ‘a star is born’ and ‘the future of boxing’ were bandied about but, as far as I’m concerned, his future in the company of that IBF belt will be a short-lived one.