Gervonta Davis Retiring from Boxing After 2025: 'This S--t Is Trash, Garbage'

Undefeated WBA lightweight champion Gervonta "Tank" Davis announced this week that he plans to retire from boxing after 2025.

Speaking at a press conference for his upcoming fight against WBA super featherweight champion Lamont Roach in March, Davis told reporters: "After next year, I'm out of it. Yeah, out of this sport."

When asked later to expand upon his decision, Davis said: "S--t's trash. This s--t is trash, garbage. Fed up. I'm fed up with the whole s--t."

The 30-year-old Davis is one of the best pound-for-pound boxers in the world as evidenced by his perfect 30-0 record with 28 of those wins coming by way of knockout.

Davis previously held titles in the super featherweight and super lightweight divisions, and he has continued to dominate at the lightweight level as well.

Although Davis intends on leaving boxing at the end of 2025, he suggested that he wants to fight three more times before he calls it quits.

That will start with a March 1 battle against Roach, who is 25-1-1 in his career and is coming off beating Hector Luis García for the WBA super featherweight title and successfully defending it against Feargal McCrory.

While the 29-year-old from Washington, D.C., has a solid résumé, his quality of opponent isn't quite at the same level as Davis, who has beaten the likes of Ryan Garcia, Frank Martin, Léo Santa Cruz and Isaac Cruz.

If Davis does close out his career with three fights in 2025, it will mark the first time he has fought three times in the same year since 2019.

After Roach, it is unclear who Davis may face, but Darshan Desai of Yahoo Sports' Uncrowned named a rematch with Garcia and clashes with Vasiliy Lomachenko or Shakur Stevenson as possibilities.

While retirements are often fleeting in boxing, Davis doesn't have much left to prove based on how dominant he has been in essentially every fight he has competed in.

Regarding his plans once he does officially step away from boxing, Davis said: "I just want to be able to make money and stay out the way, that's it. I want to be living without being seen."