On January 14, 2017, José Pedraza (22-0, 12 KOs), the super-featherweight IBF champion, defends his title against the reigning WBA lightweight champion Gervonta Davis (16-0, 15 KOs).
José Pedraza is coming in to the fight on a 22-fight win streak with a 54% KO rate; his last fight was a unanimous decision win over Stephen Smith, 8 months and 29 days ago. Gervonta Davis is on a 16-fight win streak with a 93% KO rate, with his last fight being a 1st round KO win over Mario Antonio Macias, 7 months and 11 days ago.
The winning odds are at 90.5-9.5 in favor of Gervonta Davis. It is going to be very difficult for José Pedraza to win this fight.
Gervonta Davis stopped the champion via TKO in the 7th round of the 12-round world-title fight, winning the first world title of his career, and is crowned the new IBF super-featherweight champion. Davis improves his record to 17-0 (16 KOs), while Pedraza adds a loss to his record at 22-1.