Roach is the current WBA super-featherweight champion, having won his maiden world title with a split-decision victory over Hector Luis Garcia before successfully defending it for the first time with an eighth-round stoppage of Ireland’s Feargal McCrory in a homecoming fight in Washington D.C. last June.

The event has also been promoted as a “Baltimore versus D.C.” showdown, with Davis hailing from the former and Roach growing up in the nation’s capital. There’s been public friendliness between the two fighters, as they’ve known each other for many years. In addition to fighting each other, they’ve also trained together.