10 months after final stepping foot within the ring, Gervonta “Tank” Davis has his subsequent dance companion. Mike Coppinger reports that Davis and Frank Martin have agreed to headline a PBC pay-per-view “in late spring/early summer season.”
Davis (29-0, 27 KO) acquired off to a red-hot begin in 2023, dispatching Hector Garcia and Ryan Garcia within the span of three.5 months. That marked his quickest turnaround since 2017, however self-inflicted setbacks halted his momentum in his tracks. Davis, who had plead guilty to hit-and-run shortly after defeating the first Garcia, was sentenced to 90 days of house arrest, solely to violate the terms less than a month in and spend the rest of the time in jail.
There had been some chatter as to whom he’d face in his return, with Conor Benn making the most recent spurned bid, nevertheless it now seems that Martin (18-0, 12 KO) will get the decision. “The Ghost” picked up a head of steam with a three-fight, three-win 2022, however like Davis, it didn’t final. Martin had significantly more trouble than expected in final July’s WBC eliminator in opposition to Artem Harutyunyan, his sole bout of 2023, and subsequently turned down a guaranteed title shot against Shakur Stevenson.
Nonetheless, with so many different high lightweights at present occupied, this figures to be a stable scrap. Let’s see if PBC can keep intact lengthy sufficient to make it occur.
