{"id":426094,"date":"2026-01-22T15:25:08","date_gmt":"2026-01-22T15:25:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/426094\/"},"modified":"2026-01-22T15:25:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-22T15:25:08","slug":"gervonta-davis-could-see-his-world-title-go-to-fierce-rival-following-arrest-warrant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/426094\/","title":{"rendered":"Gervonta Davis could see his world title go to fierce rival following arrest warrant"},"content":{"rendered":"

Gervonta Davis<\/a> has been downgraded from his position as the WBA lightweight world champion and now one of his fiercest foes could be poised to fight for the full belt.<\/p>\n

\u2018Tank\u2019 fought once during 2025, controversially drawing with then WBA super-featherweight world champion Lamont Roach Jr<\/a> and perhaps being fortunate to do so.<\/p>\n

The Baltimore brute was then expected to take on Jake Paul in November, but he was pulled from the bout due to domestic violence allegations, after a civil lawsuit was filed by one of his ex-partners.<\/p>\n

Now, the 31-year-old has been issued an arrest warrant for that incident<\/a>, citing charges including false imprisonment, battery and attempted kidnapping, with the WBA responding by naming Davis as a champion-in-recess, thus making their lightweight title a vacant one.<\/p>\n

At present, the frontrunner to challenge for the belt is WBA #1 contender Floyd Schofield, with #2 contender Lucas Bahdi deemed the most likely man for the opposing corner in a vacant title clash.<\/p>\n

However, Roach Jr, who also drew in a bid for the WBA super-lightweight crown last year, told his Twitch stream<\/a> that he plans to return to lightweight, where he is rated as the WBA #4, and challenge Schofield for the title.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere is a possibility that I can fight Kid Austin [Schofield] for the WBA 135lb title. We definitely gonna push for that.\u201d<\/p>\n

It remains to be seen whether the WBA will order Schofield to take on Bahdi, Roach Jr. or #3 rated Bakhodur Usmonov but Roach will likely be the fans\u2019 pick, after many feels he deserved to get his hands on the belt when he drew with Davis last March.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Gervonta Davis has been downgraded from his position as the WBA lightweight world champion and now one of…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":426095,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[447],"tags":[703,49,48,82],"class_list":["post-426094","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-boxing","tag-boxing","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/426094","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=426094"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/426094\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/426095"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=426094"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=426094"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=426094"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}