{"id":754910,"date":"2026-06-23T11:19:17","date_gmt":"2026-06-23T11:19:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/754910\/"},"modified":"2026-06-23T11:19:17","modified_gmt":"2026-06-23T11:19:17","slug":"gervonta-davis-stokes-talks-with-devin-haney-new-trainer-may-be-jose-benavidez-snr","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/754910\/","title":{"rendered":"Gervonta Davis stokes talks with Devin Haney, new trainer may be Jose Benavidez Snr"},"content":{"rendered":"<p dir=\"ltr\">Haney turning to Davis leaves him subject to getting stripped by the WBO, which is expected in early July to order Haney to negotiate with mandatory and top-ranked contender Keyshawn Davis.<br \/>On June 5, the WBO informed Haney\u2019s father and manager, Bill Haney, and the fighter\u2019s attorney of his obligation to fight Keyshawn.\u00a0Gervonta Davis, however, is not ranked among WBO welterweights.<br \/>Meanwhile, the father-trainer of top-ranked WBA lightweight contender Floyd Schofield Jnr told BoxingScene Monday\u00a0he\u2019s been informed the WBA will remove Davis as its lightweight \u201cchampion in recess,\u201d later this week, freeing the 23-year-old Schofield Jnr, 19-0 (13 KOs), to arrange a WBA title shot versus second-ranked contender Lucas Bahdi, 20-0 (15 KOs).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Haney turning to Davis leaves him subject to getting stripped by the WBO, which is expected in early&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":754911,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[571],"tags":[64,63,802,85],"class_list":["post-754910","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\/754910","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=754910"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/754910\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/754911"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=754910"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=754910"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=754910"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}