{"id":34782,"date":"2025-03-02T06:59:30","date_gmt":"2025-03-02T06:59:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/02\/gervonta-davis-keeps-title-after-disputed-draw-with-lamont-roach-jr\/"},"modified":"2025-03-02T06:59:30","modified_gmt":"2025-03-02T06:59:30","slug":"gervonta-davis-keeps-title-after-disputed-draw-with-lamont-roach-jr","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/02\/gervonta-davis-keeps-title-after-disputed-draw-with-lamont-roach-jr\/","title":{"rendered":"Gervonta Davis keeps title after disputed draw with Lamont Roach Jr"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>Davis retains WBA lightweight title on majority draw<\/li>\n<li>Baltimore native improves to 31-0 with 28 knockouts<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/sport\/live\/2025\/mar\/01\/gervonta-tank-davis-v-lamont-roach-jr-wba-lightweight-championship-live-buildup\">Gervonta Davis v Lamont Roach Jr \u2013 live reaction<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Gervonta Davis held onto his WBA lightweight title on Saturday night after a majority draw with Lamont Roach, though a contentious moment in the ninth round could have handed Davis the first defeat of his career.<\/p>\n<p>One judge scored the bout 115-113 in Davis\u2019s favor, while the other two had it level at 114-114, ensuring the unbeaten Baltimore fighter remained without a loss. (The Guardian had it 117-111 to Roach.)<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/sport\/2025\/mar\/02\/gervonta-tank-davis-lamont-roach-fight-report\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Davis retains WBA lightweight title on majority draw Baltimore native improves to 31-0 with 28 knockouts Gervonta Davis v Lamont Roach Jr \u2013 live reaction Gervonta Davis held onto his WBA lightweight title on Saturday night after a majority draw with Lamont Roach, though a contentious moment in the ninth round could have handed Davis &#8230; <a title=\"Gervonta Davis keeps title after disputed draw with Lamont Roach Jr\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/02\/gervonta-davis-keeps-title-after-disputed-draw-with-lamont-roach-jr\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Gervonta Davis keeps title after disputed draw with Lamont Roach Jr\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34782","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34782","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34782"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34782\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34782"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34782"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34782"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}