{"id":842456,"date":"2026-08-03T21:02:10","date_gmt":"2026-08-03T21:02:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/842456\/"},"modified":"2026-08-03T21:02:10","modified_gmt":"2026-08-03T21:02:10","slug":"gervonta-davis-offered-world-title-fight-at-welterweight-if-hes-a-man-hell-come-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/842456\/","title":{"rendered":"Gervonta Davis offered world title fight at welterweight: “If he’s a man he’ll come up”"},"content":{"rendered":"

Gervonta Davis<\/a> is likely to have no shortage of options if he keeps himself out of trouble and in the gym, ready for a ring return in 2027.<\/p>\n

The 31-year-old has not fought since his controversial draw with Lamont Roach<\/a>, who was wrongfully denied a 10-8 round that would have clinched victory in March 2025.<\/p>\n

Davis was then accused of domestic violence later that year, which extended his inactivity following the cancellation of an exhibition match with Jake Paul.<\/p>\n

According to long-time advisor Al Haymon, though, the American is now eyeing a return to action in the first half of next year.<\/p>\n

Someone who would gladly welcome him back to the sport is Ryan Garcia, who suffered a seventh-round stoppage defeat when they collided in 2023.<\/p>\n

Yet that result, he claims, was caused by a rehydration clause in their contact, with Garcia having since moved up to 147lbs and become the WBC world champion<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Speaking with Ring Magazine<\/a>, \u2018King Ry\u2019 insisted that a rematch with Davis is more commercially viable than a second encounter with one of his other former rivals.<\/p>\n

\u201cI feel like the Tank rematch is bigger [than a Devin Haney rematch]. He has to come up to 147[lbs].<\/p>\n

\u201cIf he\u2019s a man, he\u2019d [come up to welterweight]. And then, when I beat him, we can have a trilogy.\u201d<\/p>\n

Garcia edged a majority decision against Haney in April 2024, only for the result to be ruled a no-contest on account of him testing positive for ostarine.<\/p>\n

Since then, the 27-year-old has lost and won unanimous decisions against Rolando Romero and Mario Barrios, respectively, and will defend his WBC welterweight title against Conor Benn on September 12.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Gervonta Davis is likely to have no shortage of options if he keeps himself out of trouble and…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":842457,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[571],"tags":[64,63,802,85],"class_list":["post-842456","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\/842456","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=842456"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/842456\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/842457"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=842456"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=842456"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=842456"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}