Gervonta “Tank” Davis could step into the ring for the penultimate time against Lamont Roach on March 1st at the Barclays Center in Brooklyn, New York.

“After next year, I’m out,” the 30-year-old Davis announced Tuesday at an opening press conference for his WBA lightweight title defense against WBA super featherweight champion Roach. “Yes, get out of this sport.”

Davis (30-0, 28 KOs) reiterated his desire to retire at the end of 2025 in a media scrum after his press conference with Roach, citing a lack of enthusiasm for boxing as his main reason.

“S*** is trash,” Davis said of the sport. “This shit is trash, trash. I’m fed up. I’m sick of all this shit.”

Davis said he wanted to stay out of the public eye after leaving the sweet science and even rejected the idea of ​​signing boxers to his company, GTD Promotions.

“I just want to be able to make money and get out of my own way, that’s all,” Davis said. “I want to live without being seen.”

However, Davis wants to make the most of his final year in the sport, he said. In his media scrum, he mentioned that he would like to box three more times in 2025 before hanging up his gloves.

The two-division champion hasn’t boxed more than twice in a calendar year since 2019, and given the surprisingly small number of shows Al Haymon’s Premier Boxing Champions – with which Davis is affiliated – put on in 2024, it seems unlikely He would box three pay-per-view fights in 2025.

Possible opponents for Davis in 2025 could include a rematch against Ryan Garcia, a rebooted effort against Vasiliy Lomachenko or WBC lightweight champion Shakur Stevenson – although Davis isn’t particularly interested in a Stevenson match.

“For what? What did Shakur do?” Davis asked rhetorically. “What has he done in this sport? He hasn’t done anything. Keyshawn Davis looks a lot better than him, and Keyshawn hasn’t even done anything. What am I afraid of ?For us fighters to be afraid of someone, it has to be someone who beats us and hurts us. (Stevenson) has no offense, it’s all defense. That shit doesn’t win in boxing.

Turki Alalshikh revealed on Uncrowned and DAZN’s “Ariel x Ade” show on Tuesday that he hopes to host a fight between Davis and Stevenson in the future.

Garcia told Uncrowned in November that he would consider a rematch with Davis in 2025 as long as the bout was fought at a higher weight limit than the 136-pound maximum they fought at in April 2023.