Gervonta Davis has already resumed activity in preparation for his retirement year, according to his intention to hang up the gloves after three fights. The next and only confirmed fight so far will be on March 1 at the Barclays Center in Brooklyn, New York, to defend his WBA lightweight title against Lamont Roach Jr.
On Christmas Eve, Tank Davis announced that the fight against Roach was cancelled, but it seems that this was just one of the lapses that Gervonta has had in recent months, which have led him to not enjoy boxing and to say goodbye.
Leonard Ellerbe explains Gervonta Davis’ retirement
According to Boxing News 24, Gervonta Davis is already working on his fitness and is almost at the weight for his title defense, and to begin the road to retirement that promoter Leonard Ellerbe said he understood in a chat for The Laboratory with Plaz.
“I can understand what’s going on. Things are different when you have kids, it changed your life completely. He sees things differently than he did six or seven years ago. If that’s what he said (that he’s retiring) and we all heard it,” Leonard Ellerbe said of Gervonta’s retirement announcement, adding: “Life is so much more than something you do for a living. You have respect for the fans who pay their money to see you fight, but you have a life outside of boxing, they want you to keep doing this and they really don’t care about your health afterwards.”
Ellerbe described boxing as a brutal sport, in which many boxers of the past have been taken advantage of in different ways, and also had different health problems.
“They went through a lot of health problems, a lot of permanent things. I understand the philosophy that you get into the sport and leave your mark, and then you leave it there. Everyone’s opinion is different and everyone has different goals in life,” Ellerbe said.