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[Agent Mulder]

Baltimore boxing champion Gervonta Davis pleads guilty in hit-and-run​

By Dylan Segelbaum
Published on: February 16, 2023 10:31 AM EST|Updated on: February 16, 2023 10:35 AM EST

Gervonta "Tank" Davis poses for media during a weigh in prior to his WBA World Lightweight Championship title bout against Isaac Cruz at the JW Marriott in Los Angeles on Dec. 4, 2021. (Katelyn Mulcahy/Getty Images)
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Baltimore boxing champion Gervonta Davis pleaded guilty on Thursday to fourtraffic offenses in connection to a hit-and-run that injured four people — including a pregnant woman — in 2020.
Davis, 28, was set to stand trial in Baltimore Circuit Court before taking the plea agreement. Circuit Judge Althea M. Handy will determine the punishment for the crime at sentencing on May 5.

On Nov. 5, 2020, Davis was at a club celebrating his birthday and latest victory in the ring. He was driving a 2020 Lamborghini Urus SUV on Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard at about 1:50 a.m. when he ran a red light and hit a 2004 Toyota Solara, Baltimore Police reported.
The car was “destroyed,” according to police. Four people were taken to the hospital, police reported, while Davis left in another car that showed up on the scene.
Circuit Judge Melissa M. Phinn previously rejected a proposed plea agreement in the case that called for Davis to serve no jail time in the crash.

Davis is a West Baltimore native who’s nicknamed “Tank” and has a perfect 28-0 boxing record with 26 knockouts. He’s the current World Boxing Association lightweight world champion.

This is a developing story. Check back later for more information.

 

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Broadway Joel mighty silent

Spoke too soon

 

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[Tanahashi Coates]

Managers and fighters using the popularity card against champions is some coward shyt

 

[patscorpio]

Managers and fighters using the popularity card against champions is some coward shyt

of course it is...its why i get on mr potato head for using that specific viewpoint like he did...ramirez ducked that man to face commey...he would have jumped had zepeda won the belt but he didnt want to get pummeled by prograis...this thing with fighters not wanting title shots for no good reason...the shyt will never make sense and i will always see it as a negative

 

[aceboon]

someone needs to run up on him again like Josh Taylor did, dude tucked his balls in quick when Taylor got in his face. he be talking like Ramirez is Tank, Ramirez is selling tickets for $5 in Fresno, he's not some big dawg like that.

 

[Bigblackted4]

They killing him in the comments

 

[patscorpio]

we have fighters like sergey lipinets, who is a former 140 champ himself and coming off beating down omar figueroa, cant even get a fight of any note in the division but ramirez is turning down title shots for no good reason

 

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Nonito Donaire-Alexandro Santiago Approved For Vacant WBC Title; Date, Location TBA​

BY JAKE DONOVAN
Published Thu Feb 16, 2023, 04:08 PM EST
Nonito Donaire has a somewhat clearer picture of his next title opportunity.
BoxingScene,com has confirmed that the WBC has approved a vacant bantamweight title fight between Donaire and Mexico’s Alexandro Santiago. The pairing would satisfy the terms of the two highest ranked available contenders vying for one of the four titles left behind by former undisputed champ Naoya Inoue.
WBC president Mauricio Sulaiman revealed the development during a recent interview with ESPN Knockout, confirming a February 1 news break by BoxingScene.com stating that Santiago was likely next to land the title shot.
There is still work to be done, as a firm date, location and platform is still being sought for the vacant title fight. BoxingScene.com has learned that the bout could potentially land on a Premier Boxing Champions (PBC) show sometime in late spring or early summer.
Donaire (42-7, 28KOs) aims to once again break his own record as the oldest fighter to win a bantamweight title. Santiago (27-3-5, 14KOs) will enter his second career title fight. The 27-year-old Tijuana native held then-IBF junior bantamweight titlist Jerwin Ancajas to a twelve-round draw in their September 2018 clash in Oakland, California.
Assuming the fight takes place in the first half of 2023, Donaire will be 40 years old when he enters the ring. A win by the Fil-Am boxing superstar and former four-division titlist—who is now based out of Las Vegas—would set another record which he already shares, by entering his fourth bantamweight title reign.
Donaire first won the WBC and WBO bantamweight titles in a rousing second-round knockout of Fernando Montiel. The win saw Donaire—who was just 29 at the time—become a two-division champ, having held the IBF flyweight championship and a secondary version of the WBA junior bantamweight title. He since claimed the lineal, IBF and WBO junior bantamweight champion in a run that saw Donaire earn 2012 Fighter of the Year accolades, followed by a brief stay as WBA featherweight titlist in 2014 after ending his 122-pound championship reign in an April 2013 loss to Guillermo Rigondeaux.
Donaire entered his second bantamweight title reign with a fourth-round injury stoppage of unbeaten WBA titlist Ryan Burnett in November 2018, just 13 days shy of his 36th birthday to establish a divisional record. The reign lasted just over a year before losing a twelve-round decision to Inoue in their November 2019 WBA/IBF unification bout and World Boxing Super Series final. He resurfaced 18 months later to break his own record as the oldest fighter to win a bantamweight title following a May 2021 fourth-round knockout of unbeaten Nordine Oubaali at 38 years old.
The reign once again ended in a loss to Inoue, suffering a second-round knockout in their rematch last June 7 in Saitama, Japan. Donaire has not fought since then, waiting out the sordid bantamweight title picture.
As previously reported by BoxingScene.com, Donaire was named the number-two contender in the WBC rankings during the sanctioning body’s annual convention last November in Acapulco, Mexico. The number one contender at the time was Australia’s Jason Moloney, who earned the ranking with a twelve-round win over Nawaphon Kaikanha in their WBC title eliminator last October 16 in Melbourne, Australia.
Talks fell flat upon the WBC ordering a Moloney-Donaire title fight, which ended with Top Rank pulling Moloney in favor of pursuing the vacant WBO title. The WBC subsequently approved Donaire-Santiago after previously naming a title eliminator between Kaikanha and former title challenger Reymart Gaballo, who suffered a fourth-round knockout defeat to Donaire in December 2021.
Santiago has won his last three starts since a competitive ten-round defeat to then-unbeaten Gary Antonio Russell in November 2021. All three wins took place in a productive 2022 campaign, including a seventh-round knockout of Antonio Nieves in their October 29 rematch after having previously fought to an August 2016 split decision draw.

 

[Suspicious Dingo]

TF they doing at DAZN

 

[ChocolateGiddyUp]

DAZN


Pay $225 a month to see leprechauns battle each other for the 18th time while Mannix tells you why everyone is ducking them

 

[Black_Jesus]

TF they doing at DAZN

This is why I have never fukked with a DAZN subscription outside of a couple ppvs. I dont even bother illegal streaming their shyt.. fukkem

 

[Bleed The Freak]

I just got the DAZN email
Hell naw!