Gervonta Davis vs. Hugo Ruiz

[Master]

Gervonta Davis next fight: Young star reportedly planned for July 27 in Baltimore – Yuriorkis Gamboa and Ricardo Nunez potential opponents

The WBA super-featherweight champion is heading for a homecoming defence

Gervonta Davis’ second bout of 2019 is being plotted for July 27 at the Royal Farms Arena in his hometown of Baltimore, according to reports.

The two-time super-featherweight titlist knocked out late replacement opponent Hugo Ruiz within one round on February 9 and is looking to get back out again relatively quickly.

It’s claimed by BoxingScene that 37-year-old former unified champion Yuriorkis Gamboa is being ‘seriously considered’ as the opponent for Davis.

However a mandatory defence against Ricardo Nunez is also possible.



Initially, Gervonta Davis was the IBF super-featherweight champion – taking the title from Jose Pedraza in January 2017.

After coming to London to stop Liam Walsh in his first defence, ‘Tank’ then lost this belt as he came in overweight against Francisco Fonseca, who he knocked out the following day.

Last year, Gervonta received the opportunity to fight for a version of the WBA title and won it by thrashing Jesus Cuellar.

He was then out of the ring for ten months until his last bout against Ruiz and so hopes to remain active and compete at least three times in 2019.

https://talksport.com/sport/boxing/5...ricardo-nunez/

[powerpuncher]

I am not interested in his fights at this point unless he is going to be fighting a top opponent.

[Spicoli]

Feels like a guy who just lost a bigger name fight in his last start should look to make one next time out. Pole axing unknown Nunez who is stil fighting 8 rounders will satisfy only the mandatory not the fans. Gamboa brings a name but talk about an erratic less fulfilled career and oddly Davis is giving off some similar vibes.

[Ron Swanson]

I am not interested in his fights at this point unless he is going to be fighting a top opponent.

Right. They are playing the long game but I don’t think Davis has the mentality for it. Talent fades, fundamentals stand the test of time. Kid is talented, shoot for the stars and see where you land. But no, that’s not the sport. They’ll give 3 years of crap fights before 1 we want.

[goti71]

Wow Gamboa would have provided an amazing war six or seven years ago, probably before he pulled out of the Brandon Rios fight. But now...

I don't mind a few stay-busy fights as long as he faces Lomachenko in the not-too-distant future, and for the moment it doesn't give me the feeling he'll end up wasting too much time like Yuriorkis did. He's still 24 so let's hope...

[Kirkland Laing]

With Gamboa we don't know who was controlling his career really. Wasn't it Puig the Cuban baseball player who was basically held hostage when he left Cuba and sold to the highest bidder.? Maybe something like that happened to Gamboa and he had to pay somebody a chunk of his earnings. It kinds looks like he was managed by somebody who was just looking for a payday. He signed with that idiot rapper that rurned out to have no money and couldn't make a deal with another promoter for any decent fights and then spent years out of the ring for whatever reason.

Davis just seems similar to Broner. He's better to watch though but the fights they're making for him are awful. Considering Haymon is promoting him that would seem to be by design rather than by accident. Something is wrong somewhere even apart from the stuff we know about.