{"id":343156,"date":"2025-12-12T12:54:07","date_gmt":"2025-12-12T12:54:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/343156\/"},"modified":"2025-12-12T12:54:07","modified_gmt":"2025-12-12T12:54:07","slug":"gervonta-davis-makes-decision-on-retirement-after-being-pulled-out-of-jake-paul-fight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/343156\/","title":{"rendered":"Gervonta Davis makes decision on retirement after being pulled out of Jake Paul fight"},"content":{"rendered":"

Gervonta Davis<\/a> has made it known whether or not he plans to lace up a pair of gloves again.<\/p>\n

At the start of 2025, Davis was widely regarded as one of the best pound-for-pound fighters on the planet, having put together an unbeaten record of 30-0, and becoming a three-weight world champion with wins over fighters such as Ryan Garcia, Mario Barrios and Rolly Romero.<\/p>\n

The past 12 months have been difficult for \u2018Tank\u2019 though, with his WBA lightweight title defence against Lamont Roach back in March ending in a controversial majority decision draw<\/a>, showing there were chinks in his armour.<\/p>\n

Many fans expected a rematch with Roach to come next, but Davis instead opted to sign for an exhibition bout with YouTuber-turned-boxer Jake Paul, leading to further criticism from the boxing world.<\/p>\n

The bout never took place, after Davis was named in a civil lawsuit regarding domestic allegations, leading Paul to cancel the fight and leaving the future of \u2018Tank\u2019 up in the air.<\/p>\n

That is because last year Davis had stated that he planned to retire at the end of 2025<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u201c2025, [end of] next year, I\u2019m out of it. I\u2019m out of the sport.\u201d<\/p>\n

With that date now upon us, fans have began to speculate that the Baltimore man may never return. \u2018Tank\u2019 has now cleared up the speculation by posting on social media<\/a> that he intends to fight on is targeting a bout against current WBC interim super-lightweight champion Issac Cruz<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m taking him next, soon as my knee gets better.\u201d<\/p>\n

Davis has previously fought Cruz, earning a unanimous decision victory when they met in December 2021, with the Mexican becoming the first fighter to take \u2018Tank\u2019 the full 12-round distance.<\/p>\n

Cruz recently took on former Davis foe Roach, with that fight ending in a majority decision draw<\/a>, potentially now paving the way for a rematch with \u2018Tank.\u2019<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Gervonta Davis has made it known whether or not he plans to lace up a pair of gloves…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":339578,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[571],"tags":[64,63,802,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-343156","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-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/343156","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=343156"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/343156\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/339578"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=343156"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=343156"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=343156"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}