Floyd Schofield Sr. is doing what he always does — saying the part everybody else in the lightweight division whispers.
In a new Mill City Boxing interview, Sr. went through the Lucas Bahdi title fight piece by piece, and he started with the moment the doubters keep replaying: the counted knockdown. Per Sr., that came from a twist and a throw, not a clean punch — and he accused the broadcast commentary of building a false impression that his son was hurt in there. What Sr. saw was the opposite: a young champion whose defense and ring IQ carried the fight, in a performance the microphone never gave him credit for.
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Then Sr. turned to Gervonta “Tank” Davis, and he didn’t dress it up. In Sr.’s telling, Tank vacated the WBA belt rather than face Schofield, and will chase bigger-money fights instead. Remember what that belt’s journey actually was: the WBA title Tank left behind is the same one Kid Austin just won against Bahdi. The mandatory was ordered once. The fight never happened. The belt found a new home — with the fighter who showed up.
We’ve backed Sr. on this site before and we’ll do it again, because the record keeps agreeing with him. While other camps negotiate in public and sign in private never, the Schofields took the title fight in front of them, won it, and are now talking about the only thing that should come next for a new champion: unification. Sr. made that hierarchy clear in the interview — the mandatories are lining up, from William Zepeda to Abdullah Mason and beyond, but a unification outranks a mandatory defense. The next steps, he said, sit with the WBA, Golden Boy and the network.
The rest of the division got measured too. A callout from Gary Antuanne Russell was treated with respect — the camps share professional channels, and Russell came correct. Others, Rayo Valenzuela among them, were dismissed as nothing his son hasn’t already seen, southpaws like Shakur Stevenson included.
That’s the energy of a camp that believes it holds the real prize at 135. The belt Tank walked away from is in Austin now. Anybody who wants it knows the address.
