In a huge blow to Floyd Mayweather’s promotional company, IBF super featherweight champion Gervonta Davis (18-0, 17 KOs) came in 2 pounds over the 130 lb. limit on Friday at the weigh-in for his title defense against #7 IBF Francisco Fonseca (19-0-1, 13 KOs) for their fight on Saturday night at T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas, Nevada.

Floyd Mayweather Jr. and Conor McGregor will have the privilege of fighting for the World Boxing Council Money Belt. The gold, diamond and emerald belt the WBC created just for the occasion of the Mayweather-McGregor fight. With no other world titles being on the line, the WBC stepped forward and created a special belt for the two popular fighters to battle over.

By Michael Angelo S. Murillo

TEAM Philippines had a five-gold medal day yesterday with the sports of boxing, lawn bowls, ice hockey and track & field chipping in their share to the country’s total haul midway into the 29th Southeast Asian Games in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.

Boxers Marvin John Tupas and Eumir Felix Marcial won the top hardware in the light-heavyweight and middleweight divisions, respectively, while the Philippine men’s lawn bowls squad won its event earlier in the day.

Miguel Cotto will be looking to win the vacant WBO junior middleweight title this Saturday night against Yoshihiro Kamegai at the StubHub Center in Carson, California. Unless Cotto (40-5, 33 KOs) has lost his boxing skills in the 20 months he’s been out of the ring since his last fight, he should have an easy time defeating the 34-year-old Kamegai (27-3-2, 24 KOs) this Saturday night on HBO Championship Boxing.

#1 IBF Tureano Johnson (19-1, 14 Kos) weighed in at 159.8 pounds on Thursday for his IBF middleweight eliminator bout against #2 IBF Sergiy Derevyanchenko (10-0, 8 KOs) on Friday night on Premier Boxing Champions on FS1 & Fox Deportes from the Buffalo Run Casino, in Miami, Oklahoma.

KUALA LUMPUR -- Two-time champion Mario Fernandez inched closer to an unprecedented three-peat as he outclassed Nat Siek Nin of Cambodia to reach the bantamweight finals in men’s boxing competition of the 29th Southeast Asian Games Tuesday at the Malaysia International Trade and Exhibit Center here.

WBA World light heavyweight champion Nathan Cleverly (30-3, 16 KOs) thinks former 168 lb. world champion Badou Jack (21-1-2, 12 KOs) lacks the required experience in the 175 lb. division for him to win on Saturday night at the T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas, Nevada.

Jack, 33, will be making the move up to light heavyweight against Cleverly in his first fight in that weight class. The World Boxing Association didn’t have any problems with Jack going straight to the head of the line despite him never having fought in that weight class.

Conor McGregor is now starting to sound like he believes he’s omnipotent with the way he’s talking about his own talents in comparison to Floyd Mayweather Jr. as D-day quickly approaches for their fight this Saturday night on Showtime PPV at the T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas, Nevada.