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New #1 Contender For Gervonta Davis Revealed Before Lamont Roach Rematch

Gervonta "Tank" Davis already has his next opponent lined up before rematching Lamont Roach Jr.
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Gervonta "Tank" Davis looks on during a June 15, 2024 fight.
Gervonta "Tank" Davis looks on during a June 15, 2024 fight. | IMAGO / ZUMA Press Wire

While June 28, 2025, boxing fight that has made the most headlines is Jake "The Problem" Child earning a unanimous decision win over Julio Cesar Chavez Jr., it was Floyd "Kid Austin" Schofield that stole the show on that same card just a few hours before.

Schofield improved to 19-0 with a stunning first-round TKO of former super featherweight world champion Tevin Farmer in the first fight of Paul vs. Chavez Jr. main card. Schofield (who had to pull out of a fight with WBC lightweight Shakur Stevenson due to illness back in February, just a few days before the fight was supposed to take place) dropped Farmer several times before the referee ultimately waved the fight off.

Despite the backlash Schofield received for pulling out against Stevenson, this performance on Saturday reasserted him as a lightweight to be reckoned with. And in the bout's aftermath, Schofield called out Gervonta "Tank" Davis for a fight.

While Davis brushed this callout off with some harsh words directed at Schofield, it seems that he may not be able to avoid facing him in the boxing ring, given that Schofield was elevated to #1 in the WBA’s new updated rankings at lightweight. Therefore, he is now the top contender for Davis, which means Tank will ultimately have to fight him if he doesn't want to have his belt stripped.

Of course, Gervonta still has a rematch against Lamont Roach Jr. for later this summer, and Schofield becoming the new top contender in this division won't do anything to change that rematch taking place.

But so long as he beats Roach in that rematch, this might mean Davis has no choice but to face Schofield down the line if he wants to hold on to that belt.

There has been some speculation that Davis will want to avoid facing Schofield, given how great "Kid Austin" is and that Davis is typically selective in picking his opponents. Time will tell whether this is true.

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Grant Young is a Staff Writer for On SI’s Boxing, New York Mets, Indiana Fever, and Women’s Fastbreak sites. Before joining SI in 2024, he wrote for various boxing and sports verticals such as FanBuzz and NY Fights. Young has a bachelor’s degree in marketing and a master’s degree in creative writing with an emphasis on sports nonfiction from the University of San Francisco, where he played five seasons of Division 1 baseball. He fought Muay Thai professionally in Thailand in 2023, loves a good essay, and is driven crazy trying to handle a pitpull puppy named Aura. Young lives in San Diego and was raised in the San Francisco Bay Area.