Floyd Mayweather will be hoping he has found his Gervonta Davis replacement.
Mayweather Promotion’s up-and-coming lightweight Jursly Carlos Vargas has been drawing comparisons to Davis for his explosive all-action fight style and has got off to a flying start in his pro career.
The Curacao native turned over in November 2022, knocking out Yanko Naydenov inside the opening stanza in Amsterdam, Holland.
His devastating performance caught the eye of Mayweather, who snapped him up shortly after.
“That fight went viral, it came on ESPN and everything. Two weeks after the fight, I was on the phone with Mayweather Promotions,” he told Broadway Joel.
“Two weeks after that, I was signed and two weeks after that I moved to Las Vegas [to the Mayweather Gym].”