Gervonta Davis celebrates his victory over Ryan Garcia at T-Cell Enviornment in Las Vegas, Nevada.
The ending touches have been utilized to Premier Boxing Champion’s one-two punch in June.
Plans are finalized for a PBC on Prime Pay-Per-View doubleheader that includes Gervonta ‘Tank’ Davis and David Benavidez in separate bouts. The present is again to its unique June 15 date, however heads to MGM Grand Backyard Enviornment in Las Vegas.
Davis (29-0, 27 knockouts) will defend his WBA light-weight title versus Frank Martin (18-0, 12 KOs) within the headlining act. The chief assist will see Benavidez (28-0, 24 KOs) transfer as much as mild heavyweight to face former WBC titlist Oleksandr Gvozdyk (20-1, 16 KOs).
The present was confirmed by Davis and PBC, each by way of social media.
🚨 Gervonta “Tank” Davis and David ‘The Monster’ Benavidez return to the ring June 15 on PBC PPV on Prime Video. 🚨
Gervonta Davis faces off towards the undefeated @TheGhost_2016 and @benavidez300 takes on Ukranian powerhouse @AlexandrGvozdyk. #DavisMartin #BenavidezGvozdyk pic.twitter.com/6Fx6MYBy7Q
— Premier Boxing Champions (@premierboxing) April 21, 2024
All 4 boxers are ranked in The Ring’s High 10, spanning three weight divisions.
Davis is No. 2 at 135 by The Ring and No. 9 pound-for-pound. Martin is The Ring’s No. 5-rated light-weight and enters his first main title battle.
Phoenix’s Benavidez—who trains within the higher Seattle space—is No. 1 at 168 and a two-time WBC full titleholder. He presently owns an interim model of the belt and now challenges for a secondary WBC title at mild heavyweight. Ukraine’s Gvozdyk is The Ring’s No. 7-rated 175-pound contender.
Davis will try his first protection as a full WBA light-weight titleholder. He beforehand held the ‘Common’ title since December 2019. Former Ring and undisputed champ Devin Haney (31-0, 15 KOs) was the acknowledged WBA titlist from June 2022. He absolutely abdicated his throne final November to compete at junior welterweight.
The bout will mark the primary for Davis since final April 22. The unbeaten Baltimore native knocked out a then-unbeaten Ryan Garcia within the seventh-round at T-Cell Enviornment in Las Vegas. The bout headlined a Showtime Pay-Per-View occasion that generated an estimated $100,000,000 from 1,200,000 models offered. The present additionally produced a reside gate of roughly $22.8 million.
Each figures had been the very best totals for any boxing occasion in 2023.
Occasion handlers initially T-Cell Enviornment for this present. Nevertheless, the venue’s availability was completely depending on how far the Las Vegas Knights advance within the NHL Playoffs.
There have been additionally talks of the present happening in varied places in Texas. Davis himself teased that Houston’s Toyota Heart was the frontrunner to land the battle. The venue was booked for June 15, to which Davis advised it might happen on June 22 in a since-deleted publish.
Nevertheless, The Ring confirmed that PBC all the time favored Vegas, the place it should stage its seventh consecutive PPV occasion. It can come six weeks after the Might 4 Saul ‘Canelo’ Alvarez-Jaime Munguia PBC on Prime present at T-Cell Enviornment.
Jake Donovan is a senior author for The Ring and vp of the Boxing Writers Affiliation of America.