Gervonta Davis-Lamont Roach title fight rescheduled for March 1st

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  • Mike Coppinger, ESPN Boxing InsiderNov 29 2024, 2:19 PM ET

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The Gervonta Davis-Lamont Roach WBA lightweight title fight has been rescheduled for March 1 in Brooklyn, New York, it was announced on Friday.

“Tank” Davis, one of boxing’s top stars, had announced in early October that the fight would take place on December 14 in Houston. No reason was given for the postponement.

Davis (30-0, 28 KOs), of Baltimore, is ranked ESPN’s no. 8 pound-for-pound boxers (and No. 1 lightweight). He is coming off a spectacular eighth round knockout of Frank Martin in June. The fight was Davis’ first since a 44-day jail term last summer for violating the terms of house arrest stemming from a hit-and-run incident in November 2020.

Davis, 30, was in talks to face future Hall of Famer Vasiliy Lomachenko in a high-stakes fight this fall. But after those talks broke down, Davis ended up with a far less appealing fight.

Roach (25-1-1, 10 KOs) will move up from 130 pounds, where he is the reigning WBA champion and is ranked No. 5 by ESPN. Against Davis, he will be a huge underdog.

Roach, of Washington, DC, won the title with a split-decision victory over Hector Luis Garcia in November 2023. The 29-year-old retained his belt with an eighth-round TKO of Feargal McCrory in June.