Overview
- Multiple outlets, citing The Ring’s Mike Coppinger, report advanced negotiations for a summer date, with no contract, site or exact timing set.
- The rematch is being discussed at 140 pounds, moving both from their 2021 meeting at lightweight that Davis won by unanimous decision.
- A return against Cruz would be Davis’s first appearance since a majority draw with Lamont Roach Jr. in March 2025.
- Cruz enters as the interim WBC titleholder at super lightweight and has gone 6-1-1 since 2021, including wins over Rolando Romero and Yuriorkis Gamboa.
- Davis’s recent schedule was disrupted by legal issues that nixed a planned Jake Paul bout, and police in Florida say a domestic-violence case is under investigation as the WBA designated him champion in recess.