Terence Crawford and Gervonta Davis are currently three divisions apart but have competed in the same classes in the past.
Crawford kicked off his campaign at lightweight, where ‘Tank’ Davis is currently a world champion. He became undisputed at super-lightweight, where ‘Tank’ Davis has also won a belt.
Crawford has since continued to move up, clearing out the welterweight division before making his debut at 154 pounds last year. Davis remains back down at 135, holding the WBA World Title and knocking out all comers.
The big hitter from Baltimore has said he would knock Crawford out in the past, perhaps tongue in cheek, but the bigger man has warned him not to punch above his weight. Whilst a fight is highly unlikely to ever take place, some believe it wouldn’t be a foregone conclusion.
In an interview with Real Lyfe Productions, multi-division world champion Roy Jones Jr said, “that’s a good damn fight,” clearly believing it would be competitive if the pair met just underneath the welterweight limit and giving ‘Tank’ a good chance due to one reason.
“I don’t see nobody around that’s gonna beat Bud unless it’s somebody way bigger than him, but don’t sleep on the fact that if him and Tank fought at about 145, that’s a good damn fight, you understand me?
Cause they both have very high IQs and Tank is very explosive. That’s the one thing that Tank got that Errol [Spence] didn’t have. In boxing, an explosive fighter can go a lot of places. I was only able to cover the weights that I covered because I was so explosive. Explosiveness keeps people in check.”
The two Americans will continue their campaign separately, with Crawford chasing a fight against super-middleweight champion Saul ‘Canelo’ Alvarez that would require a 14 pound jump, and ‘Tank’ out in March against Lamont Roach Jr before, according to his latest press conference, retiring at the end of the year.
