Floyd Mayweather will be hoping he has found his Gervonta Davis replacement.
Mayweather Promotion’s up-and-coming lightweight Jursly Carlos Vargas has been drawing comparisons to Davis for his explosive all-action fight style and has got off to a flying start in his pro career.
The Curacao native turned over in November 2022, knocking out Yanko Naydenov inside the opening stanza in Amsterdam, Holland.
His devastating performance caught the eye of Mayweather, who snapped him up shortly after.
“That fight went viral, it came on ESPN and everything. Two weeks after the fight, I was on the phone with Mayweather Promotions,”.
“Two weeks after that, I was signed and two weeks after that I moved to Las Vegas [to the Mayweather Gym].”
Vargas followed up his knockout win over Naydenov with another first-round demolition job of Darrick Gates last month to move his pro record to 2-0.
He is expected to remain active now that he has adjusted to the training and altitude of his new surroundings.
Vargas has a long way to go before he reaches Davis’ level but at 19 years old he has plenty of time to develop.
Like Vargas, Davis signed with Mayweather Promotions early in his career, however, the pair have had a rocky relationship since ‘Tank’ first became a world champion in 2017.
In late 2022, Davis left Mayweather promotions after his fight with Rolly Romero, opting to go his own way under the guidance of existing adviser Al Haymon.
The split seemed to be amicable at first but cracks began to show later down the line.
Ahead of Davis’ last outing against Ryan Garcia in April 2023, he accused Mayweather of stopping him from training at the Mayweather gym, where he held most of his camps.
But they appeared to have squashed the beef by fight night as Mayweather was seen celebrating with his former protege in the ring after his seventh-round stoppage win.
Since then the pair have begun trading verbal jabs on social media with Davis recently threatening to knock out Mayweather the next time he sees him.
“Now I f*** around and knock Floyd out when I see em and I’ll care about going back to jail,” Davis wrote on X in reference to the 90-day jail sentence he received after violating the terms of his home detention for a hit-and-run crash in November 2020.
