多个消息来源告知BoxingScene网站，戴维斯(22-0, 21 KOs)正在与甘博阿(30-2, 18 KOs) 进行谈判，预计在12月7日或者在2020年初的某个时候开战。Showtime已经与戴维斯签署了六场比赛的合同，预计将播出戴维斯VS甘博阿的比赛。
梅威瑟原本打算安排戴维斯与泰文.法默在130磅打一场统一战，法默的推广人赫恩为此向戴维斯提供了500万美元的出场费，但前提是在DNZN开战。所以，梅威瑟转而与甘博阿进行了接触。
甘博阿的教练要求，37岁的甘博阿只能在不低于135磅的体重下应战戴维斯。此前在戴维斯VS努内斯的垫场赛上，甘博阿两回合KO罗曼.马丁内兹是在134磅。
现在戴维斯以135磅的体重成为WBA的头号竞争者，此前他放弃了WBA的两个130磅冠军头衔。而甘博阿的排名从第4位上升到了第2位。双方胜者
有望成为WBA轻量级冠军洛马琴科 (14-1, 10 KOs)的强制性挑战者。
这位戴维斯-甘博亚的冠军有望成为WBA轻量级冠军Vasiliy Lomachenko(14- 1,10科)的强制性挑战者。
A deal for Gervonta Davis’ first fight since his move to lightweight likely will be completed soon.
Multiple sources have informed BoxingScene.com that negotiations are ongoing for Davis to fight Yuriorkis Gamboa either December 7 or sometime early in 2020. Gamboa beat Roman “Rocky” Martinez by second-round knockout on the Davis-Ricardo Nunez undercard July 27 at a sold-out Royal Farms Arena in Baltimore and has campaigned for a fight versus Davis.
Showtime, which has televised Davis’ past six fights either live on the network or on pay-per-view, is expected to air the Davis-Gamboa bout.
Floyd Mayweather, Davis’ promoter, and Mayweather Promotions CEO Leonard Ellerbe explored putting together a 130-pound title unification bout between Davis and rival Tevin Farmer following Davis’ second-round knockout of Nunez.
Eddie Hearn, who has co-promoted Farmer’s past four fights, offered Davis $5 million to fight Farmer, but only if the Davis-Farmer fight were streamed by DAZN, with which Hearn’s Matchroom Boxing is affiliated. Mayweather wanted a Davis-Farmer fight to mark Davis’ debut as a Showtime Pay-Per-View headliner.
Once it became clear Davis-Farmer wouldn’t happen next, Mayweather and Ellerbe turned their attention toward finalizing the Gamboa bout for the 24-year-old Davis (22-0, 21 KOs). The powerful southpaw from Baltimore is believed to have recently relinquished his WBA “super” 130-pound championship in part because Gamboa’s handlers informed Davis’ team that the 37-year-old Gamboa wants to fight Davis at the lightweight limit of 135, not the super featherweight maximum of 130.
Gamboa boxed Martinez at a contracted catch weight of 134 pounds. The three-division champion’s previous fight – a 10-round, unanimous-decision defeat of Miguel Beltran Jr. – was contested at the light maximum of 135.
The Cuban-born Gamboa (30-2, 18 KOs) hasn’t weighed in at 130 pounds since December 2012, when he defeated Michael Farenas by unanimous decision in their 12-rounder for the WBA’s interim super featherweight title.
Davis was made the WBA’s No. 1 contender at 135 pounds after he gave up one its two 130-pound championships. Gamboa moved up from No. 4 to No. 2 in those ratings, which were released Sunday.
The Davis-Gamboa winner is expected to become the mandatory challenger for WBA lightweight champion Vasiliy Lomachenko (14-1, 10 KOs). | 
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