“I’ll still fight him, though,” Davis said. “It’s just got to make sense. And what people don’t realize is, my first homecoming, y’all must have forgot, but we reached out to Andy Cruz.”
Davis said he attempted to secure the fight before his November 2024 bout against Gustavo Lemos, contacting Cruz’s promoter, Eddie Hearn, directly.
“My very first homecoming, before I was about to fight Gustavo Lemos, I reached out to Andy Cruz,” Davis said. “I reached out to Eddie Hearn, and he said, no, he doesn’t want to make the fight right now. It’s a little premature.”
He added that he wanted recognition for pursuing the matchup early in his professional career.
“I reached out to him already, and then I got Lemos,” Davis said. “So, I wish people would give me my credit on that. I actually tried to fight this guy the very first time I had a chance to ask for an opponent.”
Davis is coming off a stoppage win over Jamaine Ortiz on January 31 in his debut at junior welterweight. That victory moved him into the No. 1 position in the WBO rankings, putting him within reach of a title opportunity.
His immediate future, however, remains uncertain. Davis has spoken about pursuing a title fight at 140 pounds, where Shakur Stevenson holds the WBO belt, while also expressing interest in moving up to 147 to pursue bigger opportunities.
Cruz, meanwhile, is coming off a majority decision loss to IBF lightweight champion Raymond Muratalla on January 24 in Las Vegas. The result slowed his rise, but his amateur success against Davis continues to hang over both fighters as their professional careers move forward on separate tracks.
