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Gervonta Davis refused to take on knockout monster Naoya Inoue in a fight that would go down as his greatest. Gervonta Davis doesn’t understand why some people keep fantasizing about a fight between him and knockout monster Naoya Inoue.
In Davis’ view, what he felt was the large weight difference between the two, which made a fight very unrealistic, and made the speculation ridiculous.
Responding to a post on social media by a podcast promoting the fantasy fight, Davis, a boxer from Baltimore, who has competed up to the super lightweight limit of 63.5 kilograms, dismissed suggestions that he would fight Inoue, a multi-division world champion and undisputed champion weighing 55.3 kilograms, who started his career weighing 48.9 kilograms.
“I won’t fight him,” Davis wrote on Instagram. “She’s nowhere near my weight…(I don’t know) why this page keeps posting stuff like this.”
Talks about the Davis vs. Inoue has come up time and time again, with a large number of fans, experts and industry insiders supporting the idea, as it brings together two of the most dynamic knockout athletes in the sport. Even the new president of Showtime Sports, Stephen Espinoza, a longtime Davis supporter, has expressed curiosity about the fight.
Naoya Inoue (26-0, 23 KOs) is fresh off a 10th-round knockout win over Marlon Tapales on Tuesday in Tokyo to unify all four championship belts in the 55.3 kg division. He won the undisputed title in the 53.5 kg division last year.
Meanwhile, 29-year-old Gervonta Davis (29-0, 27 KOs) last fought in April, stopping fellow American star Ryan Garcia in seven rounds in a high-profile match at the T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas.
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