{"id":486429,"date":"2026-02-20T00:06:07","date_gmt":"2026-02-20T00:06:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/486429\/"},"modified":"2026-02-20T00:06:07","modified_gmt":"2026-02-20T00:06:07","slug":"gervonta-davis-top-of-the-list-for-world-title-fight-but-would-face-big-jump-up-in-weight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/486429\/","title":{"rendered":"Gervonta Davis ‘top of the list’ for world title fight but would face big jump up in weight"},"content":{"rendered":"

The return of Gervonta Davis<\/a> is up in the air but there may be a title fight waiting for him in the welterweight division should he return.<\/p>\n

Davis has not won a fight since June 2024, with his solitary outing since being a controversial draw against Lamont Roach Jr last March \u2013 a fight which many fans believe should have cost Davis his undefeated record.<\/p>\n

\u2018Tank\u2019 was then scheduled to face Jake Paul, but he was mentioned in a civil lawsuit \u2013 which cites violent behaviour, battery and kidnapping \u2013 two weeks before the fight, resulting in the cancellation of the event.<\/p>\n

The 31-year-old has since been arrested<\/a> and stripped of his WBA lightweight world title, with a potential return to the ring seemingly on hold until his situation outside of it has been cleared up.<\/p>\n

Yet, in an interview with All The Smoke Fight<\/a>, trainer and father of Devin Haney, Bill, revealed that Davis still sits atop the hit list for the WBO welterweight ruler.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s about 10 names on the list. Tank is at the top of it, maybe Shakur [Stevenson] is next. Jaron Ennis. I think Conor Benn might be on there, towards the bottom, you know what I mean?<\/p>\n

\u201cRyan Garcia is number 10, Brian Norman was on there. Keyshawn Davis, your man Keyshawn Davis is on there too.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u2018Tank\u2019 has only fought as high as super-lightweight \u2013 a win against Mario Barrios back in 2021 \u2013 and would be undersized at welterweight.<\/p>\n

The new holder of the WBA lightweight world title is expected to be determined on Saturday, April 11<\/a>, although Golden Boy Promotions\u2019 ongoing lawsuit with Vergil Ortiz could lead to that event being pushed back.<\/p>\n

As for Haney \u2013 who won the title from Brian Norman Jr in November last year to become a three-weight champion \u2013 he has also expressed interest in fights with Shakur Stevenson, Keyshawn Davis and Conor Benn.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The return of Gervonta Davis is up in the air but there may be a title fight waiting…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":486430,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[447],"tags":[703,49,48,82],"class_list":["post-486429","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\/486429","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=486429"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/486429\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/486430"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=486429"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=486429"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=486429"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}