Gervonta Davis\u2019 most recent legal trouble seems to be impacting his return to boxing and may see him lose his world title entirely.<\/p>\n
\u2018Tank\u2019 last fought in March of 2025, retaining his WBA lightweight world title via a controversial draw against Lamont Roach Jr.<\/a> An exhibition fight with Jake Paul later in the year was cancelled when he was accused of domestic violence.<\/p>\n In January, the sanctioning body named Davis \u2018champion in recess\u2019 and looked set to order a vacant title bout between Floyd Schoefild and Lucas Bahdi, but instead, as talk of the Baltimore champion\u2019s return began to heat up, ordered him to face Schofield instead.<\/p>\n Speaking to Mill City Boxing<\/a> recently, Schofield\u2019s father and trainer said that talks are not currently ongoing, perhaps due to Davis\u2019 fresh legal situation<\/a>, and that he and his son are waiting for the negotiation period to end for the WBA to make a decision.<\/p>\n \u201cWe can\u2019t do anything until the WBA says. [We\u2019re] supposed to be in negotiations for another 20 days with Tank\u2019s people, but according to what the lawyers say, they can\u2019t be in negotiations right now. So, [we\u2019re] in limbo for 20 more days while they got that mandate up. Tank\u2019s people got to make a fight with us within 20 days.\u201d<\/p>\n From Schofield\u2019s update, Davis\u2019 grip on the WBA title appears increasingly uncertain, with the sanctioning body potentially forced to make a decision if the teams fail to make progress. The allotted negotiation period ends on June 22, at which point purse bids could be called, though only if \u2018Tank\u2019 is willing and able to defend his belt.<\/p>\n Schofield is undefeated in 19 bouts and, at 23 years old, has a bright future in the sport. His previous world title challenge against Shakur Stevenson was cancelled during fight week when he took unwell.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Gervonta Davis\u2019 most recent legal trouble seems to be impacting his return to boxing and may see him…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":686694,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[447],"tags":[703,49,48,82],"class_list":["post-721327","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\/721327","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=721327"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/721327\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/686694"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=721327"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=721327"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=721327"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}