Stevenson is certainly the man in form.
Gervonta Davis has been a bit active and with some outside of the ring stuff preoccupied but he’ll be back soon.
He last fought in a draw to Lamont Roach in 2025. Roy Jones told Fight Hype however he only sees Stevenson winning a possible fight:
“Right now, Shakur wins it because of his discipline cuz he showed against[Teofimo Lopez] stay disciplined all night and uh he’s the type of guy he don’t really do a lot of crazy stuff in his life normally. So it’s like discipline is a thing that is not only exercised inside the ring, it’s exercised also outside the ring. And as we see sometimes Gervonta has problems with discipline, but we have never seen uh Shakur have problems with discipline. We seem to be more disciplined at the right times than we’ve seen not have discipline. So with the fight being like it is right now. I would lean towards Shakur because of discipline.”
He still paid Davis some credit though:
“But don’t get it twisted. If somebody could beat him, Tank Davis would be that person because of his intangibles. When Tank is disciplined and got his mind on right, Tank is a problem for anybody. Tank can fight better than most people think he can. Just that sometime his outside antics get the better of him and it make people think less of him. But don’t underestimate Tank Davis. If Tank is motivated and ready to fight, Tank is a problem for anybody.”
Quite a balanced view point and well formulated one from boxing legend Roy Jones.
One of only two men in boxing history to win the middleweight and heavyweight title (against John Ruiz — the WBA title) in professional boxing history.
He knows his stuff.
The buzz for Stevenson vs Davis is huge online in America still and from what we see other than Ryan Garcia, it does the biggest numbers.
A huge fight still in America.
Surely Gervonta Davis needs a fight before getting in there with Stevenson — a rematch with Lamont Roach would be great.
The winner fights Stevenson before the end of the year would be even better.
Shakur Stevenson was crazily stripped of his WBC title in recent days since beating Teofimo Lopez — but he doesn’t need it anyway.
World champions and the best fighters in the sport are bigger than belt organizations and everything is changing at the moment in boxing anyway.
Zuffa Boxing and others like Ring Magazine can maybe create the one belt per division again.
Or something similar.
