Floyd Schofield Opens the Door for a Gervonta Davis Title Fight

Gervonta Davis hasn't fought since March 2025, and that inactivity cost him his WBA lightweight strap. The 31-year-old Baltimore puncher — 30-0-1 with 28 knockouts — was stripped and reclassified as the sanctioning body's 'champion-in-recess' at 135lbs. Now one of the men fighting for his old belt says he'd hand Davis a crack at it, provided he wins it first.

That man is Floyd Schofield, the 24-year-old who sits unbeaten at 19-0 (13 KO) and faces Lucas Bahdi (20-0, 15 KO) for the vacant WBA title at Chicago's Wintrust Arena on October 10. Speaking to Fight Hub TV, Schofield made clear that if he leaves with the belt, he has no interest in dodging the division's biggest name.

Schofield said he'd have no problem defending against Davis if 'Tank' came calling for his title back, calling him the division's so-called boogeyman. His logic is simple enough: beat Davis and there's nothing left for anyone to argue about. Until that happens, he said, his plan is to collect every belt at 135 before moving up to 140.

Why the Fight Makes Sense

For a prospect, a name like Davis on the record is a career accelerant. Schofield is coming off a first-round knockout of veteran Tevin Farmer, and he's ranked #7 by the WBA. Davis, despite the layoff, is still #3 — his last outing a majority draw with Lamont Roach Jr. that did nothing to dent his reputation as the most feared finisher in the weight class.

First, though, there's Bahdi. The Canadian is also undefeated at 20-0 and arrives off a unanimous-decision win over former champ Roger Gutiérrez. He's the lesser-known of the two, ranked #10, but a perfect record and a credible KO count mean Schofield can't look past him — not that he seemed to be.

The co-main event has its own weight. Ricardo Sandoval (27-2, 18 KO) defends his unified WBC and WBA flyweight titles against fellow Mexican Sergio Mendoza Cordova, a step up after Sandoval's split-decision win over Kenshiro Teraji. But the headline storyline is the one hovering over the main event: whoever walks out of Chicago with that WBA belt might have Gervonta Davis waiting on the other side.