{"id":175712,"date":"2025-09-28T18:00:07","date_gmt":"2025-09-28T18:00:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/175712\/"},"modified":"2025-09-28T18:00:07","modified_gmt":"2025-09-28T18:00:07","slug":"gervonta-davis-doesnt-believe-he-is-the-face-of-boxing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/175712\/","title":{"rendered":"Gervonta Davis Doesn\u2019t Believe He Is The Face Of Boxing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NEW YORK \u2013 <a class=\"underline hover:text-redColor\" href=\"https:\/\/ringmagazine.com\/en\/fighters\/gervonta-davis-119\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Gervonta Davis<\/a> has a hard time going anywhere without screaming fans begging for his autograph.<\/p>\n<p>His violent knockouts have made him one of the most popular boxers in the sport. Considering his track record, some believe he is the face of boxing.<\/p>\n<p>That distinction, however, is a bit too much praise for his liking.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m not the face of boxing,\u201d Davis admitted during a recent press conference. \u201cI\u2019m just somebody that box.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"underline hover:text-redColor\" href=\"https:\/\/ringmagazine.com\/en\/schedule\/fights\/paul-vs-davis\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Ultimately, all of this \u201cface of boxing\u201d chatter isn\u2019t on his radar. The 30-year-old WBA lightweight champ is training his tail off for his November 14 exhibition against fringe cruiserweight contender Jake Paul at Kaseya Center in Miami<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Their showdown will be streamed on Netflix and is expected to have a ton of eyeballs on it, despite the comical nature of it. After several conclaves, Davis agreed to face the YouTuber turned boxer at a catch weight of 195 pounds, 60 pounds higher than his usual weight class.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>What Davis does following his exhibition is a question he won\u2019t answer. The former multi-divisional champion is coming off a controversial draw against Lamont Roach on March 1 in Brooklyn\u2019s Barclays Center.<\/p>\n<p>There was reason to believe that the two would run things back. But while Davis (30-0-1, 28 KOs) initially agreed, he backed out at the last minute and opted to face Paul (12-1, 7 KOs).<\/p>\n<p>In terms of being the face of boxing, in years past, the Baltimore native believed it was a position he earned. Nowadays, he couldn\u2019t care less.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NEW YORK \u2013 Gervonta Davis has a hard time going anywhere without screaming fans begging for his autograph.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":175713,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[571],"tags":[64,63,802,2989,2983,2831,2988,2981,2984,2985,2986,2987,2982,1920,2993,2992,1913,2976,2977,2990,2978,2975,2994,2772,85,2991,2974,2980,2979],"class_list":["post-175712","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-boxing","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-boxing","tag-boxing-community","tag-boxing-fights","tag-boxing-history","tag-boxing-interviews","tag-boxing-magazine","tag-boxing-photos","tag-boxing-rankings","tag-boxing-results","tag-boxing-schedule","tag-boxing-videos","tag-boxing-news","tag-disqualification","tag-draw","tag-fight","tag-fighter","tag-fighter-news","tag-knockout","tag-latest-boxing-matches","tag-ring","tag-ring-magazine","tag-split-decision","tag-sports","tag-technical-knockout","tag-the-ring","tag-top-fighters","tag-upcoming-boxing-matches"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175712","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=175712"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175712\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/175713"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=175712"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=175712"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=175712"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}