Gervonta Davis Age 2026: How Old Is Gervonta Davis?

Gervonta Davis is 32 years old. The Baltimore boxer known as “Tank” was born on November 7, 1994, and turned 32 on November 7, 2026 — four days before this article was last updated. That birthday landed in the middle of the strangest year of his career: no fight since March 2025, a WBA title taken away through inactivity, and a court calendar that has kept him out of the ring longer than any opponent ever has.

Age matters more for Davis than it does for most boxers. He turned professional at 18, won his first world title at 22, and built a 30-0-1 record with 28 knockouts before his 30th birthday. Now, at 32, he is a five-time world champion in three weight classes who has not won a fight since June 2024 — and the lightweight division he once ruled has moved on without him. This article answers every age question fans keep asking, then walks through what Davis has done at each age, how his 32 years compare with his rivals, what he has earned, and what comes next.

Last updated: November 11, 2026. By Celebamerica Editorial Staff.

Gervonta Davis Age: The Short Answer

Gervonta Davis is 32 years old as of November 2026. He was born on November 7, 1994, in Baltimore, Maryland, which means he celebrated his 32nd birthday on November 7, 2026. For most of 2026, news reports still called him 31 — because his birthday falls in November — but that changed the moment the calendar crossed November 7. If you saw a profile listing him as 31, it was written before that date.

The birthday itself made the news. Reporting around his 32nd birthday in early November 2026 noted that Davis had not fought in 20 months and was preparing to celebrate the milestone while a civil lawsuit against him was being settled in Miami. It was a quiet birthday for a fighter who once sold out arenas — and a reminder that the clock in boxing does not stop for anyone, not even a puncher with 28 knockouts in 31 fights.

Here is the simple math fans search for: born November 7, 1994, so Davis turned 18 in 2012, 21 in 2015, 25 in 2019, 30 in 2024, and 32 in 2026. He will turn 33 on November 7, 2027. His zodiac sign is Scorpio, for those who keep track of such things, and his nickname “Tank” has followed him since childhood in Baltimore — a name that fits a 5 ft 5½ in fighter who hits like a heavyweight.

Quick Facts: Gervonta Davis at a Glance

When Was Gervonta Davis Born?

Gervonta Bryant Davis was born on November 7, 1994, in Baltimore, Maryland. He grew up in Sandtown-Winchester, a neighbourhood in West Baltimore that British Boxing News has described as one of the most crime-ridden areas of the city, and he was the youngest of three brothers. His full name is sometimes listed with the middle name Bryant, and his first name is pronounced “jer-VON-tay” — a detail that television commentators got wrong for years before his fame made the pronunciation familiar.

The date itself is one of the least disputed facts in boxing. Every major profile — from ESPN and BoxRec to Wikipedia and The Ring — agrees on November 7, 1994. A handful of low-quality biography sites list November 6, but that is an outlier with no support in any reputable record, and the weight of the evidence sits firmly on November 7. That is the date his 32nd birthday was reported against in November 2026 coverage by EssentiallySports and Face2Face Africa, both of which referred to him as 32 in stories published on November 7 and November 9, 2026.

Baltimore shaped everything about Davis. He first walked into a boxing gym at the age of five, at the Upton Boxing Center in downtown Baltimore, and he has trained under Calvin Ford there ever since. Ford, the longtime coach who inspired the character Dennis “Cutty” Wise on the HBO series The Wire, has been the one constant in Davis’s life from childhood to world titles. Davis still lives in Baltimore and still trains at Upton — a loyalty to his home city that runs through his whole story, from the amateur medals he won as a teenager to the property development company he later set up to invest in Baltimore real estate.

How Old Was Gervonta Davis When He Turned Pro?

Davis turned professional at 18 years old. His debut came on February 22, 2013, against Desi Williams at the D.C. Armory in Washington, D.C., and it lasted about 90 seconds — a first-round knockout. He had just turned 18 three months earlier, and the decision to turn pro at that age meant giving up a shot at the Rio 2016 Olympics. Davis had won the 2012 National Golden Gloves Championship in Mesquite, Texas, and three straight National Silver Gloves titles from 2006 to 2008, so an Olympic run was a real option. Instead, he signed with adviser Al Haymon and went straight into the paid ranks.

The early years were a blur of knockouts. Davis won his first eight professional fights by stoppage, and by the time he was 20 he was already being talked about as the most exciting young puncher in American boxing. The size question followed him from the start: at 5 ft 5½ in, he is short even for a lightweight, and critics wondered whether his power would carry as the opposition improved. The answer, over the next decade, was yes — 28 knockouts in 31 fights, including stoppages of men much taller than him.

The move that changed his career came in 2015, when he was 20. After impressing in a sparring session, Davis signed with Mayweather Promotions, Floyd Mayweather Jr.’s company, and the Mayweather machine began building him into a pay-per-view attraction. Mayweather himself became a mentor and, at times, a public sparring partner in the war of words — a relationship that has had its ups and downs but put Davis on the biggest stages in the sport while he was still in his early twenties.

Gervonta Davis Age at Every Career Milestone

Boxing ages a fighter in dog years, and Davis packed a full career into his twenties. The table below lines up his age with the moments that defined him — from a five-year-old in a Baltimore gym to a 32-year-old champion-in-recess waiting for a comeback date.

Two things stand out from that timeline. First, how young Davis was when he did his best work: a world champion at 22, a three-division champion by 26, and the Ryan Garcia mega-fight at 28. Second, how much of his prime has been spent outside the ring since. Between the Frank Martin win in June 2024 and his 32nd birthday in November 2026, Davis fought exactly once — the Roach draw — and won nothing. For a puncher whose style depends on timing and reflexes, 20 months of inactivity at 31 and 32 is not a footnote. It is the central fact of his career right now.

How Gervonta Davis’s Age Compares to Boxing’s Lightweight Elite

At 32, Davis is now the older man in most of the fights people want to see. The lightweight division has turned over while he has been away, and the rivals who were teenagers when he won his first title are now in their late twenties and holding belts. Here is how his age stacks up against the names that matter.

Ryan Garcia — 28. Born August 8, 1998, Garcia was 24 when Davis stopped him in April 2023, and the four-year age gap was part of the story: Davis was the seasoned champion, Garcia the young star. Garcia is still only 28, with years of prime ahead, and a rematch — which would now feature a 32-year-old Davis against a 28-year-old Garcia — is a very different fight from the first one. The contrast is striking: Garcia’s career has kept moving while Davis’s has stalled.

Devin Haney — 27, turning 28 on November 17, 2026. Haney, born November 17, 1998, is four years younger than Davis and has already been undisputed at lightweight. A Davis-Haney fight was talked about for years and never happened; at 32 and 27, the window is still open, but it is no longer the young-versus-young superfight it once looked like.

Shakur Stevenson — 29. Born June 28, 1997, Stevenson is three years younger and holds the WBC lightweight title. He is the slickest boxer in the division and the stylistic opposite of Davis — a fight fans have wanted since both men were in their twenties. Stevenson at 29 is entering his physical peak. Davis at 32 is trying to get back to his.

Teófimo Lopez — 29. Born July 30, 1997, Lopez is another three-years-younger rival who has already beaten Vasiliy Lomachenko and held titles in two divisions. Like Stevenson, he is a fight that makes sense on paper and has never quite made it to the ring.

Floyd Schofield — 23. The youngest name in the picture, and now the most relevant one. Schofield, born in 2002, won the vacant WBA lightweight title in October 2026 after Davis was designated champion-in-recess, and Boxing News reported in October 2026 that Schofield would be willing to defend against Davis if Davis returns. A 32-year-old former champion challenging a 23-year-old titleholder is a classic boxing story — and a hard one, because nine years is a lifetime at lightweight.

For a sense of scale, look at the older men Davis is now closer in age to. Canelo Álvarez is 36, born July 18, 1990, and still headlining pay-per-view cards — proof that a great fighter can thrive well past 32, though Canelo has stayed active in a way Davis has not. Mike Tyson was 20 when he became the youngest heavyweight champion in history and 58 when he fought Jake Paul in 2024, a reminder that boxing ages everyone differently. Among the heavyweights, Deontay Wilder is 41 and Anthony Joshua is 37 — both still fighting, both older than Davis, and both proof that 32 is not old for a boxer. It is, however, old for a lightweight who relies on speed: the lighter the division, the earlier the reflexes fade, and Davis’s whole game is built on timing a single punch.

Then there is the height question, which follows Davis everywhere. He stands 5 ft 5½ in (166 cm) with a 67½ in reach, short for a lightweight and shorter than nearly every rival above. That never mattered much when he was 25 and knocking people out — but at 32, giving away height and reach to younger, longer fighters is a harder ask. Our sister site GuideNetWorth has the full breakdown of Gervonta Davis’s height and how it shapes his fighting style. For a broader look at how age and size play out across the sport, see our Celebrity profiles — Davis is far from the only star whose thirties have become the most interesting chapter of his story.

Early Life in Baltimore: The Making of Tank

Gervonta Davis grew up in Sandtown-Winchester, one of the toughest neighbourhoods in West Baltimore. He was the youngest of three brothers, and the streets around him offered two paths: the one his neighbourhood is known for, and the one that ran through the Upton Boxing Center. He found the gym at five years old, and he never really left it.

Calvin Ford took him in as a boy and has trained him ever since — more than 25 years now, from a five-year-old throwing his first punches to a five-time world champion. Ford’s steady presence is one of the few things in Davis’s life that has never changed: not the promoters, not the money, not the headlines. Davis has said that boxing kept him off the streets, and the record supports it — by 17 he was a National Golden Gloves champion, and by 18 he was a professional.

The amateur career was short but decorated. Three National Silver Gloves titles from 2006 to 2008 showed a boy who could box, not just punch, and the 2012 National Golden Gloves title in Mesquite, Texas, marked him as the best amateur in his weight class in the country. The decision to turn pro at 18 instead of waiting for the Rio 2016 Olympics was a gamble: an Olympic medal would have made him a household name before he ever fought for money, but the professional route paid sooner, and Davis — who had grown up with very little — chose the money. It is hard to argue with the choice. Within four years he was a world champion.

The Rise: From Upton Gym to World Champion

The professional rise was fast, even by boxing’s standards. Davis knocked out Desi Williams in about 90 seconds on his debut in February 2013, then knocked out his next seven opponents too. By the time he was 20, the power was obvious to everyone who watched him: a short, compact southpaw who threw every punch like he meant to end the fight with it. The signing with Mayweather Promotions in 2015 put the machine behind him, and the fights started getting bigger.

The first world title came on January 14, 2017, at the Barclays Center in Brooklyn. Davis was 22, challenging the undefeated IBF super featherweight champion José Pedraza, and he stopped him in the seventh round. He was the youngest American world champion at the time, and the performance — patient, then sudden — became his signature. The title did not last long in his hands the first time: he lost the IBF belt on the scales before his first defence, missing weight against Liam Walsh in May 2017, a lapse that hinted at the discipline problems that would follow him through his career. He won the fight anyway, by stoppage, but the belt was gone.

The second title came in April 2018, when Davis — now 23 — stopped Jesús Cuéllar to win the WBA (Super) super featherweight belt. He defended it against Hugo Ruiz in February 2019, then moved up to lightweight and won the WBA (Regular) title by stopping the veteran Yuriorkis Gamboa in the 12th round in December 2019, at 25. The Leo Santa Cruz knockout followed in October 2020, when Davis was 26: a sixth-round uppercut that left Santa Cruz flat on his back and was named knockout of the year by several outlets. In June 2021, at 26, he moved up again and stopped Mario Barrios in the 11th round to win the WBA (Regular) super lightweight title — his third division, his fifth world title overall.

Through all of it, the pattern held: long layoffs, then sudden violence. Davis has never been a busy fighter. He fought twice in 2017, once in 2018, twice in 2019, once in 2020, once in 2021, once in 2022, once in 2023, once in 2024, and once in 2025. The inactivity frustrated fans and cost him momentum, but it never seemed to cost him his power. The question at 32 is whether that is still true after the longest layoff of his life.

The Money: Purses, Pay-Per-View and Net Worth at 32

An age article is not a net worth article, but the two questions travel together: fans who ask how old Davis is usually also want to know what he is worth. The honest answer is that the published estimates disagree, and the gap between them is wide. Celebrity Net Worth lists Davis at $10 million. Other 2026 trackers put him higher — Surprise Sports and several biography sites land between $10 million and $20 million, while Velontia and Exclusive Tak place him closer to $25 million to $30 million. The spread reflects a real uncertainty: Davis’s career earnings are large, his spending is famously lavish, and almost none of his private finances are public.

What is documented is the gross. Boxer Contest’s June 2026 breakdown put his career fight purses at roughly $60 million gross, with the Ryan Garcia fight in April 2023 as the biggest single payday — around $15 million including a $5 million guarantee, from a card that reportedly sold about 1.2 million pay-per-views. The Frank Martin fight in June 2024 was his next-biggest payday, and the Lamont Roach fight in March 2025 added another large purse. Against that gross sit taxes, management and training costs, and a lifestyle built around luxury cars and jewellery that even friendly profiles describe as heavy spending. That is why the net figure lands well below the gross, and why the $10 million to $30 million range — with Celebrity Net Worth’s $10 million anchoring the low end — is the fairest way to state it.

The money beyond the ring is thinner than the fight purses. His main endorsement has been with Under Armour, and he has business interests through GTD Development, the Baltimore property company he set up to buy and develop real estate in his home city. In 2023, reports said that properties he had bought through GTD Development had burned down — a setback that got less attention than his fights but says something about how his money has been deployed. He does not have the endorsement portfolio of a Canelo or a Mayweather, and he has never had a signature shoe or a major brand campaign. His wealth, such as it is, comes from the ring.

The Ryan Garcia Fight: The Night That Made Him a Star

April 22, 2023, at the T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas, was the night Gervonta Davis became a mainstream star. He was 28, Ryan Garcia was 24, and the fight was the biggest boxing event of the year — two undefeated young Americans, both with huge social media followings, meeting at a 136-pound catchweight after years of trash talk. Davis won by seventh-round knockout, dropping Garcia with a body shot that Garcia could not recover from, and the fight reportedly sold around 1.2 million pay-per-views.

The win did more than add a name to his record. It proved Davis could carry a pay-per-view on his own name, without Mayweather on the card, and it made him — briefly — the face of American boxing. It also set up the expectation that more superfights would follow: Haney, Stevenson, Lopez, a rematch with Garcia. None of them happened. Davis fought once more in 2023, not at all in the way fans hoped, and the momentum of the Garcia win slowly drained away across 2024 and 2025. At 32, the Garcia fight is still the high-water mark of his career, and it is now more than three and a half years old.

The Roach Draw and the Long Layoff

Davis’s most recent fight was the majority draw with Lamont Roach Jr. on March 1, 2025, at the Barclays Center. He was 30. Roach, a former super featherweight champion moving up, was supposed to be a stay-busy opponent. Instead, he gave Davis the hardest fight of his career, and the night turned on a moment in the ninth round: Davis took a knee, seemingly after a jab caught him in the eye, and the referee did not rule it a knockdown. Had it been scored a knockdown, Roach would almost certainly have won. As it was, the judges scored it a draw, Davis kept his unbeaten record, and the boxing world spent weeks arguing about the knee.

A rematch was discussed immediately, then never made. Instead, Davis disappeared from the ring. The WBA, after more than a year of inactivity, designated him champion-in-recess at lightweight in 2026 and ordered Floyd Schofield and Lucas Bahdi to fight for the vacant title in Chicago on October 10, 2026. Schofield won, and Boxing News reported in October 2026 that the 23-year-old would be open to defending against Davis. As of this article’s last update, no date has been set, and Davis has not fought in 20 months — the longest stretch of his professional life without a bout.

The layoff matters because of his age. Lightweights do not get better at 32 after two years out. The reflexes that let Davis slip punches and land counters are the first things to fade, and ring rust is real even for great fighters. His supporters point out that he has always fought infrequently and always come back sharp. His critics point out that he has never come back from this long a break at this age. Both sides will get their answer whenever he finally fights again.

Legal Troubles in 2025 and 2026

No honest profile of Davis at 32 can skip the legal problems that have defined his last two years, because they are the main reason he has not fought. The oldest thread goes back to November 2020, when Davis was involved in a hit-and-run crash in Baltimore in which four people were injured. He pleaded guilty in 2023 to multiple traffic offences tied to that incident and was placed on probation. In February 2026, a judge in Maryland issued an arrest warrant for the then-31-year-old, citing an alleged violation of that probation, according to The Baltimore Banner. The warrant was later recalled after a court hearing, and Davis was released on an $8,500 bond, but the episode showed how little room his old probation leaves him.

The newer thread began on October 27, 2025, at Tootsie’s Cabaret in Miami Gardens, where Davis was accused of attacking his former girlfriend. An arrest warrant was issued on January 14, 2026, and after a two-week manhunt Davis was arrested by Miami Gardens police on January 29, 2026, on charges including battery, false imprisonment and attempted kidnapping. The civil lawsuit his former partner filed — accusing him of battery, aggravated battery, false imprisonment, kidnapping and intentional infliction of emotional distress — was settled in November 2026, with her attorney Richard Wolfe telling USA Today on November 7 that the case had been settled and the terms were private. The criminal charges, however, were still pending as of November 9, 2026, according to Face2Face Africa’s reporting on the settlement.

The legal picture is therefore mixed and unresolved: a civil case closed, a criminal case open, and a probation history that has already produced one warrant this year. None of that has been proven to end his career, and Davis has not been convicted of the 2025 allegations. But it is the context for everything else in this article — the inactivity, the lost title, the stalled comeback talks. Promoters do not like uncertainty, and Davis at 32 carries more of it than any other star in the sport.

Personal Life: Family, Fatherhood and Baltimore Roots

Davis keeps his private life mostly private, and the details that are public come in fragments. He is a father — he has spoken about his children in interviews and on social media, and fatherhood is one of the few subjects that reliably softens his public persona — but he does not parade his family in front of cameras, and this article will not fill the gaps with guesswork. What is certain is that Baltimore remains home: he lives there, trains there at Upton, and has put money into the city through GTD Development, his property company.

The Baltimore connection is not a branding exercise. Davis grew up with very little in Sandtown-Winchester, and the gym was, by his own account, what kept him alive and out of trouble. That history explains both his loyalty to Calvin Ford and his reluctance to leave the city even after becoming rich and famous. It also explains why the 2020 hit-and-run case and the probation that followed it hit so hard: the same streets that made him are the ones that keep pulling him back into trouble.

Outside boxing, Davis’s public image is that of a man who enjoys the money he has earned — the cars, the jewellery, the watches — and who has never tried to hide it. That flashiness is part of his appeal to fans and part of the reason his net worth estimates sit lower than his career earnings would suggest. At 32, with a young family and a career at a crossroads, the question is whether the next chapter looks like the last one, or whether the birthday that just passed marks the point where the priorities shift.

What Is Next for Gervonta Davis at 32?

As of November 11, 2026, there is no confirmed date for Davis’s next fight. What exists instead is a set of signals, all pointing toward early 2027. Boxing News reported in October 2026 that Davis is expected to return in the new year, and that the WBA’s champion-in-recess designation gives him a direct path to challenge Floyd Schofield for the belt he used to hold. Schofield has said publicly that he wants Davis on his record. Promoter Oscar De La Hoya confirmed in May 2026 that negotiations for a Davis return were intensifying, with a third-quarter 2026 date discussed at the time — a date that came and went without a fight.

Other names are in the mix. George Kambosos Jr. has been mentioned as a possible comeback opponent, and the ever-present Garcia rematch would be the biggest money fight available to him. The Roach rematch, which the boxing public demanded after the draw, has gone quiet. What is clear is that Davis cannot wait much longer: he will be 33 in November 2027, and every month of inactivity at this age costs him more than it did at 25.

The honest assessment is that Davis at 32 is a great fighter with an uncertain future. His power has not been tested since June 2024. His legal situation is unresolved. His division has new champions. But he is also 30-0-1 with 28 knockouts, and no one in boxing has ever knocked him out or even come close to beating him clearly. If he comes back sharp, the age question answers itself. If he does not, 32 will be remembered as the age when the Tank ran out of road.

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Sources and Reporting

Age, birthplace and career facts in this article were checked against multiple live sources in November 2026, including ESPN, Boxing News, EssentiallySports, Boxing247, Celebrity Net Worth, British Boxing News and Face2Face Africa. Net worth figures are estimates drawn from publicly reported purses and published trackers, not from Davis’s private finances, which are not public. Where sources disagree — most notably on net worth, where 2026 estimates run from $10 million to $30 million — this article states the range and names the source anchoring each end of it. Fight dates, records and title history were cross-checked against BoxRec-based profiles and contemporary fight reporting.

How we estimated: The headline figure in this article is Davis’s age — 32, from his birth date of November 7, 1994, verified across ESPN, BoxRec, Wikipedia and November 2026 news coverage that referred to him as 32 after his birthday. The net worth range of $10 million to $30 million reflects the spread across Celebrity Net Worth ($10 million), Surprise Sports ($10 million to $20 million) and other 2026 trackers ($20 million to $30 million), set against roughly $60 million in reported career purses. Estimates are not exact figures, and Davis’s real finances may differ from every published number. Corrections are welcome — contact us and we will check them against the sources above.