He was due to take on Roach again in August, but legal issues got in the way and he has since inked a deal to fight Paul<\/a> on November 14 in Miami. The fight has proven controversial, particularly given the massive size difference<\/a> between the pair.<\/p>\n Gervonta Davis declares \u2018boxing is dead\u2019 ahead of Jake Paul fight<\/p>\n At the age of just 30-years-old, Gervonta Davis<\/a> is very much in his prime and has a number of options in his own weight class at the world level. Aside from the Roach rematch, he is regularly called out by Shakur Stevenson, and could also rematch Ryan Garcia<\/a> or face Devin Haney up in weight.<\/p>\n However, he doesn\u2019t seem too interested in giving fans, or his fellow fighters, what they want. Taking to X, he wrote: \u201cBoxing definitely did a turn.. It went from this side to that side.. And this s\u2014 has no loyalty so why would I care? I move accordingly. BOXING IS DEAD.\u201d<\/p>\n When a fan suggested that he fight Stevenson, he replied: \u201cLol, that\u2019s how I know it\u2019s hate and jealousy.. Becuz [sic] you not even telling me to fight my rematch.. <\/p>\n \u201cTelling me to fight someone else when you got hurt and more s\u2014 in the fight.. But y\u2019all d\u2014ing riding his big bro NOW.. Where was this energy 2-3 fights again? You are a real lame. Y\u2019all all are.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Gervonta Davis has made a grim declaration about boxing\u2019s future after opting to face Jake Paul in an…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":171566,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[571],"tags":[64,63,802,26697,9225,66150,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-171565","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-boxing","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-boxing","11":"tag-gervonta-davis","12":"tag-jake-paul","13":"tag-jake-paul-vs-gervonta-davis","14":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171565","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=171565"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171565\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/171566"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=171565"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=171565"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=171565"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"Jake](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/GettyImages-2236344197-1024x683.jpg\")
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