Saul ‘Canelo‘ Alvarez is an accomplished champion but one legend of the sport hopes that Gervonta Davis does things differently in the remainder of his career.
Baltimore banger Davis has held the WBA lightweight title since 2023 and before that was the regular title holder from 2019. He has also held the IBF and WBA super featherweight world titles and the WBA Regular Super-Lightweight, belt but has been rather inactive in the last couple of years.
He has fought just twice, once against Ryan Garcia last April and again against Frank Martin in July, winning both by stoppage.
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The other main man in the lightweight division right now is Shakur Stevenson, the WBC champion who many want to see fight ‘Tank’.
However, he has just announced that he will instead defend his title against Joe Cordina on the undercard of Dmitry Bivol versus Artur Beterbiev on October 12.
This has upset former champion turned pundit Paulie Malignaggi, who told Pro Box TV that he doesn’t understand why Davis and Stevenson haven’t pushed for a unification fight and compares it to Canelo who, in his view, is too picky with his opponents.
“I hope Davis doesn’t become the new Canelo. I hope that he goes and makes this fight, we want to see the best fight the best, the champions fight one another. This is what we have in the lightweight division. In the Canelo situation he has all the belts so the avoidance of the top contenders is extra annoying in that case. But in this situation, we could have champion versus champion and it’s bona fide the best in the division. Cordina is solid but he’s coming off a loss.”
Davis is slated for a November return with an opponent yet to be announced.
