{"id":809044,"date":"2026-10-20T22:28:08","date_gmt":"2026-10-20T22:28:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/809044\/"},"modified":"2026-10-20T22:28:08","modified_gmt":"2026-10-20T22:28:08","slug":"boxings-youngest-world-champion-wants-gervonta-davis-fight-lets-get-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/809044\/","title":{"rendered":"Boxing’s youngest world champion wants Gervonta Davis fight: “Let’s get it”"},"content":{"rendered":"

Gervonta Davis<\/a> has spent 2026 on the sidelines but the Baltimore power-puncher is expected to make his comeback in early 2027 and boxing\u2019s youngest male world champion may well be waiting for him.<\/p>\n

Davis is winless since June 2024, with his only outing since being a draw against Lamont Roach Jr back in March 2025<\/a>. Since then, serious legal issues have seen \u2018Tank\u2019 undergo an extended period of inactivity, resulting in him being stripped of his WBA lightweight title.<\/p>\n

Davis has since been named as the WBA \u2018champion-in-recess\u2019, a position which will permit the 31-year-old to challenge newly-crowned WBA 135lb titleholder Floyd Schofield for his former belt upon his return to the sport, if he wishes to do so.<\/p>\n

Whilst Schofield appears to be the most obvious target for Davis next year, 22-year-old WBO lightweight champion Abdullah Mason told the Last Stand Podcast with Brian Custer<\/a> that he would be willing to take on the undefeated superstar.<\/p>\n

\u201cFor sure, it is something that I am definitely open to and definitely looking forward to, if he is still in the sport, but I like to keep things in an aspect of what is there. If that comes in front of me, I have got to be ready for that, for sure.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf another fight comes in front of me, then I have got to be ready for it. So, if he comes back and gets active then yeah, for sure, let\u2019s get it.<\/p>\n

\u201cI feel like it would be great and it would be big.\u201d<\/p>\n

As Mason insinuates, the Ohio southpaw is taking one fight at a time at present and it seems as though his first attempted defence of the WBO title may take place on the Tyson Fury vs. Anthony Joshua undercard in December<\/a>, where he has been touted for a clash with Joe Cordina.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Gervonta Davis has spent 2026 on the sidelines but the Baltimore power-puncher is expected to make his comeback…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":809045,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[2560,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-809044","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\/809044","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=809044"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/809044\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/809045"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=809044"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=809044"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=809044"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}