Notebook: Davis, Lomachenko open negotiations to unify titles
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Top Rank and PBC have begun negotiations for a fall lightweight unification fight between WBA titlist Gervonta “Tank” Davis and IBF titleholder Vasiliy Lomachenko, a showdown many fans hoped for a few years ago but one that now seems likely to finally happen.
“It’s being talked about. The conversations are going on,” Top Rank chairman Bob Arum, Lomachenko’s career-long promoter, told Fight Freaks Unite on Monday.
Arum declined to get into more specifics other to acknowledge that if the fight is finalized it would take place before the end of the year.
A source on the PBC side confirmed Arum’s account that negotiations have begun with both sides wanting to make the bout.
After Davis (30-0, 28 KOs), 29, of Baltimore, brutally knocked out Frank Martin in the eighth round of a PBC on Prime Video pay-per-view main event to retain his 135-pound title for the fifth time on June 15 at the MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas he was asked about his interest in facing fellow southpaw Lomachenko.
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