Drake ran into Floyd Mayweather protege, Gervonta Davis, while in Houston over the weekend, and decided to get up with the IBF junior lightweight champion for a 6-mile run.
Drake had been down in H-Town for the Houston Appreciation Weekend festivities he helps facilitate each year, and Davis has been training in the city as he prepares for his co-main event fight on the undercard of the Floyd Mayweather Jr. vs. Conor McGregor clash on August 26. Davis has been back and forth between Houston and his hometown of Baltimore, where his long time trainer Calvin Ford is established. The plan is to get the 22-year-old champ out to Vegas one week or so prior to the T-Mobile Arena showdown.
Davis (18-0, 17 knockouts) had been steadily making a name for himself before snatching the IBF title from Jose Pedraza in January and then staging an impressive defense against Liam Walsh in London back in May. Mayweather has been touting him as the future of boxing, and with him needing little more than exposure to become a Pay Per View fighter, his appearance under Mayweather and McGregor on the grand stage looks to be the moment he casts his net over a massive television audience. For Mayweather, it very likely will also signify his official transition from boxing to life after boxing as a promoter. Therefore having a world class boxer like Davis would be just what Mayweather Promotions (in conjunction with Al Haymon) needs to compete against the Top Ranks and the Golden Boys of the world.
Davis' opponent for the August 26 fight is still to be determined.
