Gervonta Davis speaks on Jake Paul fight cancellation: ‘He was getting his a— beat in camp’
Gervonta Davis has been pretty quiet since getting pulled from a Jake Paul fight that was supposed to go down on November 14th, but he got one quick comment in on social media last night before deleting his X (formerly Twitter) account.
Davis was accused by an ex-girlfriend of physically abusing, kidnapping, and threatening to kill her in an ongoing civil suit. After the story swirled for a week, Paul’s promotion pulled the plug on the fight, with Jake calling Gervonta “human garbage.”
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But Davis is now claiming that the withdrawal has more to do with Paul realizing he had no chance of winning or even holding his own in their fight.
“He was getting his ass beat in camp … I was gonna do him bad,” Davis wrote on his since-deleted X account. “But everything happens for a reason, that’s why I didn’t trip.”
This isn’t the first we’ve heard of Paul having a bad camp. The YouTuber-turned-boxer had Shakur Stevenson along with a number of other skilled lightweights to train with, and reports had Jake struggling to deal with their speed and power despite a 50 pound weight differential.
As for the legal case against Davis?
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“Shawty has a whole history going after men for money,” Davis claimed. “It’s me so y’all believed it. Y’all couldn’t wait. More opportunities in da future though.”
Previous allegations haven’t ended Davis’ career and didn’t stop him from landing a Jake Paul fight in the first place, so he’s probably right. As for Jake Paul, he is now set to fight Anthony Joshua on Netflix Friday December 19th.
