{"id":776049,"date":"2026-07-02T18:45:08","date_gmt":"2026-07-02T18:45:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/776049\/"},"modified":"2026-07-02T18:45:08","modified_gmt":"2026-07-02T18:45:08","slug":"gervonta-davis-named-top-target-for-all-american-mega-fight-the-biggest-and-best-fight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/776049\/","title":{"rendered":"Gervonta Davis named top target for all-American mega fight: “The biggest and best fight”"},"content":{"rendered":"

Gervonta Davis<\/a> has been named as the most desirable opponent for another American star, even if his ring return continues to hang in the balance.<\/p>\n

The 31-year-old has not fought since March 2025, back when he retained his WBA world lightweight title with a controversial draw against Lamont Roach<\/a>.<\/p>\n

After that, \u2018Tank\u2019 was in negotiations for an immediate rematch with Roach before turning his attention towards a more lucrative exhibition match with Jake Paul.<\/p>\n

This was supposed to take place last November, only for Davis to be removed from the event following accusations of domestic violence.<\/p>\n

Having now been made WBA \u2018champion in recess\u2019, the American finally appears to be plotting a comeback fight, quite possibly against WBO world welterweight champion Devin Haney<\/a>.<\/p>\n

News emerged towards the end of last month that the respective teams of Davis and Haney are in talks<\/a>, despite the latter having been ordered to face mandatory challenger Keyshawn Davis.<\/p>\n

Following his title-winning triumph against Brian Norman Jr in November, \u2018The Dream\u2019 has seemingly passed the grace period for a voluntary defence and must now agree terms with Keyshawn by July 20, otherwise their contest will go to a purse bid hearing.<\/p>\n

Regardless of his son\u2019s mandatory obligation, though, manager Bill Haney has told Ring Magazine<\/a> that \u2018Tank\u2019 remains at the top of their hit list.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe biggest and the best fight I think, that everyone in culture, sports and entertainment would love [to see], would be \u2018Tank\u2019. He\u2019s at the top of the list.\u201d<\/p>\n

Bill went on to claim that he has already spoken with Al Haymon, Davis\u2019 promoter, about staging the possible Haney fight.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Gervonta Davis has been named as the most desirable opponent for another American star, even if his ring…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":776050,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[447],"tags":[703,49,48,82],"class_list":["post-776049","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\/776049","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=776049"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/776049\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/776050"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=776049"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=776049"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=776049"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}