{"id":877710,"date":"2026-09-02T18:18:20","date_gmt":"2026-09-02T18:18:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/877710\/"},"modified":"2026-09-02T18:18:20","modified_gmt":"2026-09-02T18:18:20","slug":"gervonta-davis-set-to-target-one-division-ahead-of-comeback-next-year-he-knows-he-wasnt-big-enough","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/877710\/","title":{"rendered":"Gervonta Davis set to target one division ahead of comeback next year: “He knows he wasn’t big enough”"},"content":{"rendered":"

Gervonta Davis<\/a> has fought just once since June 2024, but it seems as though the inactivity of \u2018Tank\u2019 could soon come to an end, as a timescale for his return has finally been unveiled.<\/p>\n

Davis\u2019 last win came against Frank Martin over 26 months ago, with the Baltimore knockout artist drawing to Lamont Roach Jr<\/a> in his solitary outing since, retaining his WBA lightweight world title and undefeated record by the skin of his teeth.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Since then, legal issues have kept Davis away from the ring and have seen him demoted from WBA lightweight world champion to champion-in-recess, with Floyd Schofield and Lucas Bahdi now scheduled to compete for his old belt next month<\/a>.<\/p>\n

It remains to be seen whether Davis will utilise has position as champion-in-recess and return to the lightweight division against the victor of that vacant title bout in a bid to regain the 135lb throne, or if he will move up to the super-lightweight division in pursuit of a rematch with Isaac \u2018Pitbull\u2019 Cruz.<\/p>\n

However, Davis\u2019 coach, Kenny Ellis, told FightHype<\/a> of his expectations to see Davis remain at lightweight.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf you go back and look at the fight where Tank went up to fight [Mario] Barrios at 140lbs, in the post-fight interview Tank said, \u2018I am going back down, I don\u2019t belong in this weight class,\u2019<\/p>\n

\u201cHe knows he was small, not that he is scared [of super-lightweight] but he knows that he is not big enough for the weight-class.\u201d<\/p>\n

Ellis also believes that Davis will return to action in early 2027.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt looks like Tank will probably be back at the beginning of the [new] year. He has got to go through some things on his side, but right after that he will be back in the gym.\u201d<\/p>\n

Should he remain at lightweight, a showdown against the winner of Schofield-Bahdi looks to be the most obvious route back to the top. Meanwhile, a long-awaited clash with Vasyl Lomachenko could also become a possibility.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Gervonta Davis has fought just once since June 2024, but it seems as though the inactivity of \u2018Tank\u2019…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":877711,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[571],"tags":[64,63,802,85],"class_list":["post-877710","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\/877710","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=877710"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/877710\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/877711"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=877710"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=877710"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=877710"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}