{"id":744442,"date":"2026-06-18T12:34:16","date_gmt":"2026-06-18T12:34:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/744442\/"},"modified":"2026-06-18T12:34:16","modified_gmt":"2026-06-18T12:34:16","slug":"gervonta-davis-return-jesse-rodriguez-inoue-top-boxing-questions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/744442\/","title":{"rendered":"Gervonta Davis Return, Jesse Rodriguez-Inoue Top Boxing Questions"},"content":{"rendered":"

Gervonta Davis<\/a>‘s return to the ring heads a list of pressing questions shaping boxing’s landscape in 2025, according to ESPN analysts Andreas Hale and Nick Parkinson.<\/p>\n

Davis, who has not fought since stopping Frank Martin last June, remains boxing’s biggest pay-per-view draw outside the heavyweight<\/a> division. His next opponent and timeline are among the sport’s most closely watched topics, with multiple lightweight<\/a> and junior welterweight<\/a> contenders angling for the Baltimore star’s attention.<\/p>\n

Should Jesse Rodriguez Face Naoya Inoue<\/a> Next?<\/p>\n

The possibility of a junior bantamweight<\/a> unification between Jesse Rodriguez and pound-for-pound king Naoya Inoue also sits at the top of boxing’s wish list. Rodriguez, who recently became a three-division champion, has called for the fight publicly. Whether the San Antonio native moves up or Inoue comes down in weight remains the central obstacle to making the bout happen.<\/p>\n

Mikaela Mayer’s next steps following her narrow victory over Chantelle Cameron round out the key storylines. Mayer’s disputed win over the former undisputed junior welterweight<\/a> champion has positioned her for bigger opportunities, though the controversy surrounding the decision complicates her path forward.<\/p>\n

The analysts also examined several other emerging narratives across multiple weight classes, highlighting fights that could define the sport’s direction through the spring and summer.<\/p>\n

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ESPN Boxing<\/a> \u2014 Boxing’s key storylines: What’s next for ‘Tank’ Davis? Is ‘Bam’ Rodriguez-Inoue next? More<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Gervonta Davis‘s return to the ring heads a list of pressing questions shaping boxing’s landscape in 2025, according…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":744443,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[571],"tags":[64,63,802,85],"class_list":["post-744442","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-boxing","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-boxing","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/744442","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=744442"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/744442\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/744443"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=744442"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=744442"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=744442"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}