{"id":682306,"date":"2026-05-20T17:01:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-20T17:01:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/682306\/"},"modified":"2026-05-20T17:01:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-20T17:01:08","slug":"gervonta-davis-team-responds-to-lomachenko-targeting-him-for-comeback-fight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/682306\/","title":{"rendered":"Gervonta Davis’ team responds to Lomachenko targeting him for comeback fight"},"content":{"rendered":"

A fight between Gervonta Davis and Vasyl Lomachenko could be finally be on the cards now that the latter has announced his comeback to the sport.<\/p>\n

\u2018Tank\u2019 and \u2018Loma\u2019 have been linked to a clash for several years, and were even in negotiations before the three-division world champion from Ukraine announced his retirement last June.<\/a><\/p>\n

The Ring Magazine has now reported that Lomachenko is making a return to the ring and that he plans on taking \u2018no tune-ups\u2019, first eyeing a shot at unified super-featherweight champion Emanuel Navarrete, before a long-awaited 135lb affair with \u2018Tank\u2019.<\/p>\n

However, speaking with MillCity Boxing<\/a>, Kenny Ellis, a key member of Davis\u2019 coaching team, believes it is all talk.<\/p>\n

\u201cNo, I think that \u2018Tank\u2019 will be the last one that he picks.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cHe is the most dangerous one. He is going to take, I am not going to say the easy route, but the [one with] less punishment. He is going to go that way.<\/p>\n

\u201cAll of them [lightweight] guys right now, s**t, they can crack, all of \u2018em. So, it is just up to him, which one he wants to get KO\u2019d by.\u201d<\/p>\n

Should the fight materialise, Ellis says it will be for purely financial reasons.<\/p>\n

\u201cNo, [it wouldn\u2019t surprise me if he chose to fight Davis], that is the biggest payday. It wouldn\u2019t surprise me, but do he really want the fight, or do he want it for the money?\u201d<\/p>\n

Davis is currently being linked to a super-lightweight rematch with Isaac \u2018Pitbull\u2019 Cruz<\/a>, as he seeks his first win since June 2024. He has dominated the headlines recently not for his boxing, but controversy and legal proceedings outside of the ropes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A fight between Gervonta Davis and Vasyl Lomachenko could be finally be on the cards now that the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":682307,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[447],"tags":[703,49,48,82],"class_list":["post-682306","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\/682306","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=682306"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/682306\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/682307"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=682306"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=682306"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=682306"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}