{"id":763469,"date":"2026-06-26T23:18:12","date_gmt":"2026-06-26T23:18:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/763469\/"},"modified":"2026-06-26T23:18:12","modified_gmt":"2026-06-26T23:18:12","slug":"gervonta-tank-davis-named-champion-in-recess-as-boxings-belt-drama-continues","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/763469\/","title":{"rendered":"Gervonta \u2018Tank\u2019 Davis named \u2018champion in recess\u2019 as boxing\u2019s belt drama continues"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">This has been a wacky week in the \u201csweet science.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">In addition to Oleksandr Usyk <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mmamania.com\/boxing\/453243\/oleksandr-usyk-stuns-boxing-community-abruptly-vacates-all-three-heavyweight-titles\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">vacating all three of his heavyweight titles<\/a>, Gervonta \u201cTank\u201d Davis has been named \u201cchampion in recess\u201d as a result of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mmamania.com\/boxing\/446410\/report-gervonta-davis-arrest-warrant-issued-after-alleged-probation-violation\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">his ongoing legal drama<\/a>. That means Floyd Schofield and Lucas Bahdi, currently ranked No. 1 and No. 2 at 135 pounds, respectively, have been cleared to fight for the vacant WBA title.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">\u201cThe Championships Committee of the pioneering organization reviewed Davis\u2019 legal situation and reached its decision after determining that the ongoing proceedings could prevent him from fulfilling his championship obligations in the short and medium term,\u201d the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ringmagazine.com\/news\/9D3Ch8QIrX3HrjpuaMLtN\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">WBA wrote in a statement on Friday<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">Davis, 31, gets first crack at the winner of Schofield vs. Bahdi, assuming he\u2019s cleared to compete by then.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">For more boxing news and notes click <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mmamania.com\/boxing\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"This has been a wacky week in the \u201csweet science.\u201d In addition to Oleksandr Usyk vacating all three&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":763470,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[447],"tags":[703,36109,49,48,33601,82],"class_list":["post-763469","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-boxing","tag-boxing","tag-boxing-news-results","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-latest-ufc-mma-news","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/763469","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=763469"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/763469\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/763470"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=763469"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=763469"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=763469"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}