{"id":347463,"date":"2026-01-02T03:28:07","date_gmt":"2026-01-02T03:28:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/347463\/"},"modified":"2026-01-02T03:28:07","modified_gmt":"2026-01-02T03:28:07","slug":"gervonta-davis-sets-his-sights-on-one-former-champion-for-comeback-fight-hes-next","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/347463\/","title":{"rendered":"Gervonta Davis sets his sights on one former champion for comeback fight: “He’s next”"},"content":{"rendered":"

Gervonta Davis<\/a> appears to have made up his mind on his boxing return.<\/p>\n

It was a difficult period for \u2018Tank\u2019 in 2025, with the year beginning with a controversial majority decision draw to Lamont Roach in his WBA lightweight title defence in March.<\/p>\n

The main talking point from the fight came when Davis voluntarily took a knee and retreated to his corner claiming he had grease in his eyes, with many onlookers claiming that should have led to a knockdown being scored, and Terence Crawford even thinking he should have been disqualified.<\/a><\/p>\n

An immediate rematch was then expected to take place, but instead \u2018Tank\u2019 opted for an exhibition bout with YouTuber-turned-boxer Jake Paul, which was scheduled for November.<\/p>\n

It never went ahead after Davis was named in a civil lawsuit regarding domestic allegations<\/a>, and after the Baltimore man had previously stated that he had plans to retire at the end of the year, it appeared that his time in a boxing ring may have been up.<\/p>\n

Davis seems to have now made a U-turn on those comments though, after revealing he is targeting one man in particular for his return.<\/p>\n

Taking to social media after Isaac Cruz and Roach recently fought to a majority decision draw, \u2018Tank\u2019 said he wants to take on Cruz.<\/p>\n

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

Davis previously fought Cruz back in December 2021, claiming a unanimous decision victory. Cruz is a former WBA super-lightweight champion, and currently holds the WBC interim crown at 140lbs, which he retained with that draw against Roach in December.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Gervonta Davis appears to have made up his mind on his boxing return. It was a difficult period…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":347464,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[2560,101,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-347463","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-boxing","8":"tag-boxing","9":"tag-sports","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/347463","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=347463"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/347463\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/347464"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=347463"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=347463"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=347463"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}