Gervonta Davis (23-0, 22 KOs) ended his 2019 with another victory, stopping Cuba’s Yuriorkis Gamboa (30-3, 18 KOs) in the 12th and final round in front of more than 14,000 fans at the State Farm Arena in Atlanta, Georgia.
Davis captured a secondary WBA lightweight title, which I’m just going to immediately dismiss as a garbage belt. The WBA likes to hand out belts for fun, and the real WBA champ is Vasyl Lomachenko, so don’t fall for any line about Davis being a “two-division champion.”
There was a big weigh-in controversy on Friday, as the whole procedure took seemingly forever.