{"id":530189,"date":"2026-03-10T03:36:09","date_gmt":"2026-03-10T03:36:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/530189\/"},"modified":"2026-03-10T03:36:09","modified_gmt":"2026-03-10T03:36:09","slug":"gervonta-davis-isaac-cruz-rematch-in-the-works-for-this-summer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/530189\/","title":{"rendered":"Gervonta Davis-Isaac Cruz Rematch In The Works For This Summer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Advanced negotiations are ongoing for <a class=\"underline text-text-primary font-medium hover:text-blue-70 transition-colors\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ringmagazine.com\/fighters\/1ac3XjjCXCBXX75BGavZsW\">Davis<\/a> to fight <a class=\"underline text-text-primary font-medium hover:text-blue-70 transition-colors\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ringmagazine.com\/fighters\/61KudiZCpDtWAvFzgxlvGK\">Isaac Cruz<\/a> again sometime this summer. Baltimore\u2019s Davis (30-0-1, 28 KOs) defeated Mexico City\u2019s Cruz (28-3-2, 18 KOs) by unanimous decision in December 2021 in Los Angeles.<\/p>\n<p>A Davis-Cruz rematch would be contested at the junior welterweight limit of 140 pounds. Their first meeting was a lightweight title fight for Davis\u2019 WBA belt.<\/p>\n<p>Davis, 31, hasn\u2019t fought since he faced Roach, who chastised Davis for not granting him an immediate rematch.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Advanced negotiations are ongoing for Davis to fight Isaac Cruz again sometime this summer. Baltimore\u2019s Davis (30-0-1, 28&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":530190,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[571],"tags":[90965,64,63,802,232239,1920,28241,94323,85,2974],"class_list":["post-530189","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-boxing","tag-object-object","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-boxing","tag-boxing-articles","tag-boxing-news","tag-featured-news","tag-junior-welterweight","tag-sports","tag-the-ring"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/530189","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=530189"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/530189\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/530190"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=530189"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=530189"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=530189"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}