{"id":690618,"date":"2026-07-14T06:05:14","date_gmt":"2026-07-14T06:05:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/690618\/"},"modified":"2026-07-14T06:05:14","modified_gmt":"2026-07-14T06:05:14","slug":"richardson-hitchins-fires-back-at-gervonta-davis-over-opponent-criticism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/690618\/","title":{"rendered":"Richardson Hitchins Fires Back At Gervonta Davis Over Opponent Criticism"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>  <a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/preferences\/source?q=boxing247.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" style=\"display:flex; align-items:center; justify-content:center;&#010;            width:140px; height:40px; overflow:hidden;\"><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"660\" height=\"208\" alt=\"Add East Side Boxing as a preferred source on Google\" class=\"perfmatters-lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/1770669047_552_google.png\"\/><\/p>\n<p>  <\/a><\/p>\n<p>  <a href=\"https:\/\/news.google.com\/publications\/CAAqKAgKIiJDQklTRXdnTWFnOEtEV0p2ZUdsdVp6STBOeTVqYjIwb0FBUAE?ceid=US:en&amp;oc=3&amp;hl=en-US&amp;gl=US\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" style=\"display:flex; align-items:center; justify-content:center;&#010;            width:140px; height:40px; overflow:hidden;\"><br \/>\n    <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"468\" height=\"128\" alt=\"Follow East Side Boxing on Google News\" style=\"height:100%; width:auto; display:block;\" class=\"perfmatters-lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/follow-google-news.png\"\/><br \/>\n  <\/a> <\/p>\n<p>\u201cI don\u2019t need a buzz to go in there and cash a 7 figure check,\u201d Hitchins said on<a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/HeIsRichardson\/status\/2076393660980035918\" rel=\"nofollow\"> X<\/a> after a fan mocked the lack of interest surrounding the matchup.<\/p>\n<p>Hitchins is moving up to 147 pounds after vacating his IBF light welterweight title. Salas is widely viewed as a safe opponent for Hitchins to get comfortable in the division before pursuing one of its more prominent names.<\/p>\n<p>The 28-year-old also became involved in an exchange with Gervonta \u201cTank\u201d Davis, who criticized the level of Hitchins\u2019 opposition.<\/p>\n<p>Hitchins responded by attacking Tank\u2019s r\u00e9sum\u00e9 and naming several of his past opponents.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSay I\u2019m fighting a bum but fought Frank, who is a straight bum, brought up Hector, who is a 130 bum, fought Rolly, who was green at the time, fought a washed-up Gamboa and tried to bring up Lamont, which that one failed,\u201d Hitchins wrote.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is facts. How you gone say I\u2019m fighting a nobody when you made dog [expletive] in boxing fighting literally nobodys besides Ryan Garcia, that was TikTok famous, and a drained inexperienced kid?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Hitchins will face Salas at Madison Square Garden on Zuffa Boxing\u2019s July 26 card. The matchmaking gives him an opportunity to look impressive without taking a major risk in his first appearance at welterweight.<\/p>\n<p>That approach is different from the sink-or-swim matchmaking often associated with Dana White in the UFC. White, however, is not believed to have complete control over Zuffa Boxing\u2019s opponent selection, and Turki Alalshikh could also have input into how Hitchins is being developed.<\/p>\n<p>A convincing win would leave Hitchins available for a larger fight against Ryan Garcia, Devin Haney, Conor Benn, Teofimo Lopez or Rolly Romero.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cI don\u2019t need a buzz to go in there and cash a 7 figure check,\u201d Hitchins said on&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":690619,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[2560,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-690618","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\/690618","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=690618"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/690618\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/690619"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=690618"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=690618"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=690618"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}