{"id":496729,"date":"2026-03-26T17:07:06","date_gmt":"2026-03-26T17:07:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/496729\/"},"modified":"2026-03-26T17:07:06","modified_gmt":"2026-03-26T17:07:06","slug":"gervonta-davis-faces-calls-to-be-stripped-of-title-entirely-if-he-wont-face-top-contender","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/496729\/","title":{"rendered":"Gervonta Davis faces calls to be stripped of title entirely if he won’t face top contender"},"content":{"rendered":"

Gevonta Davis has not won a fight since June 2024 but remains as the WBA\u2019s champion-in-recess. Now, the man hoping to succeed Davis as WBA champion has demanded that the Baltimore-born fighter is removed from that position.<\/p>\n

Davis drew with Lamont Roach Jr in his lone outing of 2025<\/a>, meaning that he has not won a contest since knocking out Frank Martin almost two years ago. However, out-of-ring issues are largely behind the inactivity of the 31-year-old, which have led to him losing his WBA lightweight world title.<\/p>\n

Davis has been named as the champion-in-recess<\/a> rather than stripped entirely, meaning that he could be reinstated as full champion in the future or mandated to fight any new champion upon his return.<\/p>\n

It had been believed that number one contender Floyd Schofield, \u2018Kid Austin\u2019, would take on either Lucas Bahdi or Roach in a clash for the now-vacant belt, but an announcement has yet to take place.<\/p>\n

Posting on X<\/a>, Schofield has spoken out and demanded that the WBA strip Davis of his title or mandate a fight between he and \u2018Tank\u2019.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s so much politics with boxing and belts. I think we may just fight to put on great fights and vacate the WBA Boxing titles.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf WBA Boxing and Golden Boy can not get a fight for the World Title, do we need them[?]<\/p>\n

\u201cThey need to mandate KID vs Tank or strip him.\u201d<\/p>\n

Schofield\u2019s outburst, combined with the delayed confirmation of a bout to determine a new champion, could potentially be a sign that Davis may soon be reinstated as champion, with a pending court case expected to determine how soon before \u2018Tank\u2019 returns to action.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Gevonta Davis has not won a fight since June 2024 but remains as the WBA\u2019s champion-in-recess. Now, the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":496730,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[2560,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-496729","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\/496729","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=496729"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/496729\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/496730"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=496729"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=496729"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=496729"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}