Gervonta Davis has revealed that he will call out his next opponent in the post-fight interview on March 1 following his WBA lightweight title defense against Lamont Roach at the Barclays Center in Brooklyn, New York.
Post match announcement
Boxing fans already have a good idea who it will be because Gervonta (30-0, 28 KOs) revealed his three fight list for 2025 yesterday and the first name he mentioned was Ryan Garcia.
Tank’s match with Ryan is set up 1.2 million PPV buys on April 22, 2023, grossing over $100 million. Both fighters cashed in hand, with the Baltimore native bringing home a purse estimated between 50 million dollars to 60 million dollars.
Targeting Ryan
Tank says he is retiring at the end of 2025, so it makes sense that he would choose to fight Ryan Garcia first because it would be too risky to wait until the second or third fight next year. Ryan can be beaten by someone else. The purse that Gervonta can get in a fight against Ryan Garcia is huge.
Ryan’s purse was $30 million, which is great for a challenger. The recent success is due to Ryan’s massive popularity on social media and the hard work he has put into selling the fight through interviews. The event was sold out for $84.99 on PPV, which is apparently a lot more than Turki Alalshikh’s events have been billed for.
Kingry did all the heavy lifting to promote the fight, allowing Tank to ride his coattails and let him do the marketing for the fight. With Ryan’s 12 million followers on Instagram, he often hyped his match with Tank and many of them are believed to have bought the event at the PPV.
Davis can’t make the same money fighting WBC lightweight champion Shakur Stevenson because he doesn’t have a huge national fan base in the U.S. His popularity is limited to fans who like his social media yapping and defensive style battle. playing the children’s game of tag. You have to really like that style of watching to care enough to watch Shakur compete with anyone.
The Callout
Dan Canobio: Three names you want in 2025″.
Gervonta Davis: “I won’t say. I never called anyone out.”
Canobbio: “Well, it will be your first time. So more reasons to tune in on March 1st.”
Gervoda: “Yeah, but I just told you.”
Tank says he’ll call his next opponent on March 1 — something he’s never done in his career 👀 pic.twitter.com/vHBSgBZBoq
— Dan Canobbio (@DanCanobbio) December 4, 2024
