{"id":304790,"date":"2025-12-08T09:55:06","date_gmt":"2025-12-08T09:55:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/304790\/"},"modified":"2025-12-08T09:55:06","modified_gmt":"2025-12-08T09:55:06","slug":"gervonta-davis-announces-who-he-wants-next-in-comeback-fight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/304790\/","title":{"rendered":"Gervonta Davis announces who he wants next in comeback fight"},"content":{"rendered":"

Gervonta Davis<\/a> watched on as two former opponents fought this weekend, and it got him thinking about his own ring return.<\/p>\n

Following a controversial draw with Lamont Roach Jr earlier this year, the 31-year-old southpaw was set for a money-spinning exhibition bout with Jake Paul before domestic violence allegations against him saw the fight pulled.<\/a><\/p>\n

Roach returned to action this weekend in Texas, fighting to another draw against Isaac Cruz in the super-lightweight division.<\/a><\/p>\n

Davis, who has been quiet since the news of the Paul event cancellation, was posting on X after watching the action. Many of his comments were criticising Roach, calling his recent rival a \u2018gatekeeper\u2019 and saying that he lost the fight despite the majority draw cards.<\/p>\n

When pushed on why he was not criticising Cruz, Davis said:<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m taking him next, soon as my knee gets better.\u201d<\/p>\n

Back in 2021, Cruz was the first man to push \u2018Tank\u2019 the twelve-round distance. He had previously won on points just once, in a six-rounder in 2014.<\/p>\n

Post-fight \u2014 after a unanimous decision with the scores 115-113, 115-113 and 116-112 was announced in his favour \u2014 Davis said that he had injured his hand early on and fought without his usual signature power punches.<\/p>\n

Though Davis has always expressed interest in the rematch, and Cruz \u2014 currently the WBC Interim Super Lightweight champion \u2014 would of course be open to another high-profile fight, some believe that the Baltimore puncher is just as likely to retire quietly.<\/p>\n

In a seperate post, he denied the allegations against him and claimed Paul had cancelled their fight for other reasons.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Gervonta Davis watched on as two former opponents fought this weekend, and it got him thinking about his…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":304791,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[2560,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-304790","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-boxing","tag-boxing","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/304790","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=304790"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/304790\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/304791"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=304790"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=304790"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=304790"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}