Mayweather tentatively announces Gervonta Davis vs. Abner Mares

TMT promoter Floyd Mayweather Jr. just posted an announcement yesterday evening which appears to be for junior lightweight champion Gervonta Davis to make a title defense against Abner Mares before the year is out.

As of now there’s no date or place for this proposed fight, but my guess is that it indeed happens — much to my chagrin. I mean, call me cynical but this is one of those fights that sounds much better on paper than it probably is in reality.

For starters let me state that Mares (31-3, 15 KOs) is a capable fighter. That said, he’s an aging fighter, 32, who has been through a number of tough battles and is coming off a second loss to Leo Santa Cruz this past June. Now that’s not shameful or anything, but anytime an aging fighter finds himself in a title fight coming off of a loss I get a little skeptical.

Mares still has just enough name value to bolster Davis’ resume at this point in time, but he’s also long enough in the tooth that I don’t see him posing any serious threat to the much younger and fresher Davis. So when you consider that Mares’ best days are behind him, he’s coming off a loss, he isn’t a big puncher, and he’s moving up in weight for this fight — it all strikes me as a way to get Davis a ‘good win’ on paper with minimal risk.

But hey, that’s just my take. How do you feel about a Davis-Mares match-up?