Gervonta Davis’ prolonged inactivity is set to continue but it seems that he will have a host of options upon his eventual return, with a fellow unbeaten knockout artist being the latest to agree to a showdown with ‘Tank’.
Winless since June 2024, Davis’ only fight since has been a draw against Lamont Roach Jr, with legal issues continuing to get in the way of his return and causing him to lose his WBA lightweight title after being demoted to ‘champion-in-recess’.
After initially being linked to bouts against both Floyd Schofield and Isaac ‘Pitbull’ Cruz, it has now reported that the Baltimore-born operator will not fight this year, instead declaring that Davis’ return will take place in early 2027.
However, whilst seemingly unavailable for the remainder of the year, Davis has next called for a bizarre clash with newly-crowned WBA bantamweight titleholder, Jesse ‘Bam’ Rodriguez, according to the latter’s trainer, Robert Garcia, as per BoxingScene.
“You know who else he called out? He didn’t put it on social media but we have the messages he sent, he called out Bam. I’m telling you guys. He called out Bam and said ‘I want to fight you next. I’m going to talk to Al Haymon to make it happen.'”
Garcia then went on to address the obvious elephant in the room, given the four-division weight difference between the pound-for-pound stars, but maintained that Rodriguez accepted the call-out without hesitation.
“I don’t even know if [Davis] was thinking of the weight difference from 118lbs [bantamweight] to 135 [lightweight], but ‘Bam’ didn’t hesitate. He messaged back, ‘All right, let’s do it.’”
Whilst Rodriguez is willing, it is expected that the Texan will instead square-off with Naoya Inoue in a challenge for the undisputed super-bantamweight throne during the first quarter of 2027.
