{"id":525825,"date":"2026-03-10T02:19:09","date_gmt":"2026-03-10T02:19:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/525825\/"},"modified":"2026-03-10T02:19:09","modified_gmt":"2026-03-10T02:19:09","slug":"gervonta-davis-close-to-securing-comeback-fight-as-opponent-named","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/525825\/","title":{"rendered":"Gervonta Davis close to securing comeback fight as opponent named"},"content":{"rendered":"

Gervonta Davis<\/a> appears to be on the brink of confirming his return to the ring.<\/p>\n

Davis was last in action in March 2025 when he was held to a majority decision draw against Lamont Roach in a defence of his WBA lightweight title.<\/p>\n

It was a controversial result, with many feeling that Roach did enough to get the nod, especially after a knockdown wasn\u2019t awarded in his favour after \u2018Tank\u2019 voluntarily chose to take a knee in round nine.<\/p>\n

The 12 months that followed have left many questioning if Davis would ever be back in action at all. A planned exhibition with Jake Paul in November was cancelled<\/a> due to the Baltimore man being named in a civil lawsuit regarding domestic allegations, just the latest in a string of issues outside of the ropes.<\/p>\n

Further drama materialised after an arrest warrant was issued for \u2018Tank\u2019 citing similar accusations, leading to him to be stripped of his WBA lightweight title.<\/p>\n

Despite all of that, Davis does now look set to return, after it was reported by Mike Coppinger<\/a> that he is in advanced talks for a clash against Isaac Cruz, a man that \u2018Tank\u2019 named as his number one target late last year.<\/a><\/p>\n

Davis has already secured a win over Cruz, who was last in action in December when he fought to a majority decision draw with former \u2018Tank\u2019 foe Roach \u2013 the man most feel should be getting the chance to face him again.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Gervonta Davis appears to be on the brink of confirming his return to the ring. Davis was last…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":525826,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[447],"tags":[703,49,48,82],"class_list":["post-525825","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\/525825","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=525825"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/525825\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/525826"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=525825"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=525825"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=525825"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}