On Saturday at the State Farm Arena in Atlanta, Georgia, former super-featherweight title holder Gervonta Davis (22-0, 21 KOs) makes his lightweight debut against veteran Yuriorkis Gamboa (30-2, 18 KOs) for the vacant WBA belt.
Davis captured the IBF super-featherweight belt in 2017 with a TKO over José Pedraza (his best win to date) then lost on the scales prior to a win over Francisco Fonseca. He then took a version of the WBA belt from Jesus Cuellar and defended it twice against sub-par opposition before vacating it to move up, amid talk of a potential fight with pound-for-pound star Vasyl Lomachenko.