{"id":597457,"date":"2026-05-22T05:27:14","date_gmt":"2026-05-22T05:27:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/597457\/"},"modified":"2026-05-22T05:27:14","modified_gmt":"2026-05-22T05:27:14","slug":"unbeaten-fighter-says-gervonta-davis-must-face-him-before-lomachenko-weve-got-to-run-it-first","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/597457\/","title":{"rendered":"Unbeaten fighter says Gervonta Davis must face him before Lomachenko: “We’ve got to run it first”"},"content":{"rendered":"

The return of Vasiliy Lomachenko is imminent and Gervonta Davis<\/a> is one of his main targets, but the Ukrainian fan-favourite has been warned that he must wait for his turn, if he indeed wants to purse a clash with the Baltimore-born brute.<\/p>\n

Davis was last victorious back in June 2024, when he defended his WBA lightweight world title with a knockout of Frank Martin. He defended that belt again last March, in a controversial draw with Lamont Roach<\/a>, but he has not fought since, with external issues causing an extended period of inactivity.\u00a0<\/p>\n

As a result, the WBA stripped Davis of the world title, but named him as champion-in-recess, with Floyd Schofield and Lucas Bahdi expected to fight for the vacant belt \u2013 the victor then being expected to face Davis in an attempted first defence.<\/p>\n

Although, it seems as though the WBA are now waiting to see whether Davis will return and fight Schofield in a battle for the belt, despite rumours of a rematch between Davis and Isaac Cruz<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Now, additional fight speculations has emerged, with \u2018Loma\u2019 becoming the latest fighter to call for a showdown with Davis, who looked out of sorts against Roach last time out. On X<\/a>, Schofield told Lomachenko to join the queue.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhat is up everybody? It\u2019s \u2018Kid Austin\u2019. I\u2019m looking a lil\u2019 rough right now because I am in the gym 24\/7! Anyway, I seen the news about Lomachenko wanting to fight \u2018Tank\u2019.<\/p>\n

\u201cIn my humble opinion, I know that Lomachenko is a great, a legend, but I am the number one contender to fight \u2018Tank\u2019.<\/p>\n

\u201cSo, you either got to wait on the back burner or let\u2019s get the [our] fight going. Anyway, we still waiting to see what \u2018Tank\u2019 is doing and then I think that we are lining that Lucas Bahdi fight up, hopefully, because y\u2019all know I want to get him out of the way.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cLike I said, Lomachenko is a great, but I am the number one contender and me and \u2018Tank\u2019 have got to run it first before he goes anywhere.\u201d<\/p>\n

It has also been reported that Lomachenko wants to take on unified super-featherweight world champion Emanuel Navarrete, promising that he will take \u2018no tune-up fights\u2019 upon his return<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The return of Vasiliy Lomachenko is imminent and Gervonta Davis is one of his main targets, but the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":597458,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[2560,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-597457","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\/597457","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=597457"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/597457\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/597458"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=597457"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=597457"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=597457"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}