Gervonta Davis (28-0-0, 26 KO) is one of the biggest stars in boxing today. The Baltimore boxer has an impeccable record. He has been champion in three categories (super featherweight, lightweight and super lightweight) and with his left he has sent some of the toughest rivals to the canvas. He has been boxing since he was five years old, and this sport has saved his life. He lived a very hard childhood and has had problems with the law, but in the ring he has shown time and time again that he is one of the best. On Saturday he will star in one of the most anticipated fights of the year with Ryan Garcia (23-0-0, 19 KO) at the T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas.
Gervonta Davis’s life has not been easy. Born in Baltimore on November 7, 1994 (28 years old), he was the youngest of three brothers. He started boxing at the age of five, and at six, his mother was ordered by Child Protective Services to relinquish custody of their children. His father was in the jail and his mother used drugs. She went through different foster homes during her childhood, including an adoptive family. It took her grandmother three years to get her custody.. He has experienced many episodes of violence and crime throughout his life. At the age of 15, he had to run away from a car shooting up your neighborhood.
since childhood he fought with the kids in his neighborhoodHe even defended his brother, who was seven years older than him at the time. He joined the gym to get something good out of this whole situation. Life in the neighborhood was hard, and Gervonta did everything possible to see his mother. Many of his gym and neighborhood mates have been killed., and he did not want to suffer the same fate. The series coach The WireDennis Cutty Wise, who recounts what life is like in Baltimore and makes special reference to drugs, is based on his trainer Calvin Ford.
During his amateur career, he won the National Golden Gloves Championship in 2012, three Silver Gloves Championships, two Gold Youth Olympic National Medals, and two Ringside World Championships. She finished with a record of 206 wins and only 15 losses. He debuted as a professional boxer in 2013 and took his first win and his first KO. Davis won in the first round, showing that this was his thing. He has been champion in three different weight classes (super featherweight, lightweight and super lightweight).
During his career he crossed paths with Floyd Mayweather, and was his protégé for a long time. Money said that he hoped Gervonta would go as far as he did or even further. But they didn’t end welland Tank parted ways with the undefeated legend’s promoter in May 2022 after knocking out Rolando Romero (14-1-0, 12 KOs). They tried to make the separation amicable, but Davis himself announced in a tweet, which he later deleted, that Mayweather did not let him do his preparation for this fight in his gym.
Problems with the law have continued to be present in the life of Gervonta Davis. The Baltimore boxer pleaded guilty to all four traffic offenses from his 2020 hit-and-run case in a plea deal. It left four people injured, including a pregnant woman.. He left the scene of the accident involving bodily injury, failed to report property damage, was driving with the permit expired and ran a red light. Sentencing is set for May 5.
As if that were not enough, in February 2020 he already faced two counts of assault on his ex-girlfriend, but it was finally archived. And at the end of December of last year he was arrested for a crime of alleged domestic violence, with assault and bodily harm, to the mother of his daughter. He appeared before a Broward County judge in Fort Lauderdale and was placed on $1,000 bail. He shared an image on his Instagram account, which he also later deleted, where he defended his innocence and assured that he was not “a monster.”
Despite the adversities, of growing up in one of the most troubled neighborhoods in the United States without her parents, Gervonta Davis has managed to move forward. Boxing is the main reason why she has been able to embark on a new path and achieve the life she had always dreamed of. This Saturday, she will star in one of the most important fights of the year. Something that that five-year-old boy who started boxing on the streets of Baltimore couldn’t even imagine.
