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Unbeaten former Super World Super Featherweight Champion Gervonta Davis will be taking on former world champ Yuriorkis Gamboa of Cuba for the vacant WBA Lightweight Title in Atlanta, Georgia this Saturday, December 28th on the Showtime network in America. Davis of Baltimore, Maryland, last fought in July when he stopped Ricardo Nunez in the second round. Gamboa’s last action was on the same card in July when he stopped Roman Martinez in round two.

Davis vs Gamboa Betting Odds

Here are the betting odds from online sportsbook BetOnline.ag (full review here).

  • Yuriorkis Gamboa +1250
  • Gervonta Davis -3000

My Pick

The 25-year-old Davis was a 2012 National Golden Gloves Champion as an amateur and enters the fight with a perfect mark of 22-0 along with 21 big Kos. He’s fought just 67 rounds since turning pro back in 2013 due to his tremendous punching power and his knockouts over Nunez, Jesus Cuellar, Hugo Ruiz, Jose Pedraza and Liam Walsh were exceptional. The southpaw has the talent and power to be a long-reigning champion.

Davis currently has a knockout ratio of 95.5 per cent with the only opponent to take him the distance as a pro being German Meraz when the pair went six rounds back in 2014. However, Davis still managed to drop him in both the third and fifth rounds. Davis stopped Pedraza in the seventh round for the IBF Super Featherweight Title in January of 2017 and then defended it four months later in England when he stopped Walsh in the third round.

Davis’ first title reign came to an end in August, 2017 against Francesco Fonseca though when he failed to make weight. However, he stopped Fonseca in the eighth round. He then won the WBA version against Cuellar in April 2018 and defended it against Ruiz and Nunez. Davis stands just over 5-feet-5-inches tall and has a reach of 67.5 inches. He’s obviously got a lot of dynamite in his fists, but his chin hasn’t really been tested as of yet.

The 38-year-old Gamboa enters the fight with an impressive record of 30-2 along with 18 Kos. His first career loss was a ninth-round TKO to Terence Crawford in a WBO World Lightweight Title fight in June of 2014. His second defeat was to Robinson Castellanos in May of 2017 when he was stopped after the seventh round. He just managed to beat Alexis Reyes in August of 2017 after having three points deducted in the fight and squeaked past Jason Sosa by majority decision in November, 2017 after losing a point.

Although he’s on the downside of his career now, Gamboa still has has quick hands but usually doesn’t let them go nearly enough and has just two stoppages in his last 12 fights. Gamboa, who fights out of Miami, Florida, stands just over 5-feet-5-inches tall with a 65-inch reach so he’s the same height as Davis but gives up two inches in reach. He’s boxed 195 rounds since turning pro and has somewhat underrated power with a current knockout ratio of 56.3 per cent.

Gamboa had an excellent amateur career with 250 bouts and won a gold medal for Cuba as a flyweight at the 2004 Olympic Games in Athens, Greece. In some fans’ eyes Gamboa has sort of wasted his opportunity at an excellent pro career due to his constant periods of inactivity. He’s held a featherweight world title and interim lightweight belt and has wins over Orlando Salido, Daniel Ponce De Leon, Jorge Solis, and Jonathan Victor Barros. His chin let him down in his two losses and he just doesn’t seem to be the fighter he once was.

Prediction…

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Gamboa will turn 38 years old five days before the fight which makes him 13 years older than Davis and many fans feel Davis should be fighting a better quality of opponent at this stage of his career or at least somebody younger. But it is what it is. At least Gamboa has some power in his fists and could do some damage if he lands something flush on the chin. It’s unlikely to happen though as I expect Davis to leave the ring with a new world title belt.

A bit of a mismatch at this stage of their careers.

Play: Davis -3000 @ BetOnline.ag

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The lightweight division has heated up in 2020 despite COVID-19 halting live boxing for several months, and one big name who has been watching keenly is current WBO welterweight titleholder, Terence Crawford.

Crawford won his first world title in the 135 lb weight class when he scored a unanimous decision over Ricky Burns in the defending champion's home country of Scotland on Mar. 1, 2014. He has since unified the belts at junior welterweight before now sitting as one of the world's top pound-for-pound fighters at 147 lbs.

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His lightweight roots have led to the American keeping a close eye on things, where a host of exciting prospects are rising to the top amidst a sea of formidable contenders.

The division's current champions are Teofimo Lopez Jr, who stunned Vasiliy Lomachenko to add the Ukrainian's WBA (Super), WBO and The Ring titles to his IBF belt; WBC kingpin Devin Haney and the WBA's 'regular' champion, Gervonta 'Tank' Davis.

The top trio have had plenty to say about each other recently, but it is Haney who has been on the receiving end more often than not. Lopez beating Lomachenko makes him almost impossible to criticize, at least for now, and Davis scored a huge finish on Leo Santa Cruz on Halloween night. Haney, on the other hand, was branded 'boring' by some detractors after he went the distance with Yuriorkis Gamboa earlier this month.

Crawford, however, thinks it would be unwise for anyone to count Haney out of any potential unification megafights in 2021 — especially his fellow champions.

“Haney is the one Teofimo and Tank must watch out for,' said Crawford to Fighthype. “I don’t know [if Tank can take Teo]. But the one fighter they better watch out for is Devin,”

“Devin is a boxing mother f-----. I don’t care if people don’t like him.'

One of the reasons many consider Haney as being a level behind his championship peers is because the 22-year-old is perceived to lack the power needed to go toe-to-toe with more prolific lightweights for the time being.

But Crawford, who blasted former world champion Kell Brook in his latest title defense on Saturday, appreciates Haney's style due to the similarities he sees in himself.

“He don’t got to [slug with his opponents]. No, he’s not,” Crawford added with regards to that particular stigma.

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“Hey, he’s been doing it. Yeah, that’s what I’m saying. We’re going to have to see what comes. He’s [Haney] tall, he’s long, and he’s fast, so it’s going to be hard to get in there. When you get in there, you’re going to have to take a couple of jabs, counters, and whatnot.

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“That’s why I say. Yes,” said Crawford when asked if Haney could dish out offense on the likes of Lopez and Davis. “It’s going to be hard for Tank because Tank is so small. It’s going to be different with Teofimo, but Tank is so small and short.

“He’s going to jab Tank all day long until Tank gets in and hurts him. Tank is fast as well. Tank is going to have to be in real good shape because when you watch his last fight, he was getting touched up, and Leo [Santa Cruz] is no Devin or Teo.

“We don’t know. I like Ryan Garcia. You see Devin trying to fight more like Floyd [Mayweather], but everyone else has got their own fighting style.'

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Haney's next fight is unclear, though he could proceed to the winner of Garcia's upcoming fight with Luke Campbell, since the winner will become the interim to Haney's WBC title.

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That bout was set for Dec. 5 in California, but a positive COVID-19 test for the Brit saw the fight pushed to January 2.