NEW YORK – Gervonta Davis arrived at Barclays Center 4½ hours after his press conference was originally scheduled to start Tuesday afternoon.

One of boxing’s biggest stars needed only a couple minutes, though, to have made his laughably late arrival well worth the wait. Baltimore’s Davis (30-0, 28 KOs) called the lightweight landscape “trash,” belittled potential opponent Shakur Stevenson and stated that he intends to fight three times in 2025 before retiring, presumably sometime after his 31st birthday in November.

“After next year, I’m out of it,” Davis told Premier Boxing Champions’ Miguel Flores, who moderated the press conference at Barclays Center in Brooklyn, where Davis will battle Lamont Roach on March 1. “Out of the sport.”

Assuming the heavily favored Davis defeats Roach (25-1-1, 10 KOs), he intends to fight rival Ryan Garcia in what would be a highly anticipated rematch. Davis also acknowledged former fully unified lightweight champ Devin Haney could be the last opponent of his career later in 2025.

The left-handed Davis knocked out Garcia (24-1, 20 KOs, 1 NC) with a body shot in the seventh round of their highly publicized pay-per-view fight in April 2023 at T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas. That event drew more than 1 million pay-per-view buys and generated $22.8 million in ticket sales, a record for a non-heavyweight show in Nevada.

A Haney-Garcia rematch could complicate Davis’ preferred schedule for 2025.

Once Garcia, of Victorville, California, serves a one-year suspension because he tested positive for a banned substance, Haney (31-0, 15 KOs, 1 NC) plans to a pursue a rematch of Garcia’s majority-decision win April 20 at Barclays Center. That result was changed to a no-contest once Garcia’s abovementioned test result was revealed.

Interestingly, Davis didn’t list Vasiliy Lomachenko as a potential foe for his second fight of next year. Ukraine’s Lomachenko (18-3, 12 KOs) is contemplating retirement, which was why he walked away from a deal that was all but finalized to face Davis on November 2 at MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas.

“I was supposed to [have] fought Lomachenko, right?,” Davis said. “And um, like how he said he was retired and things like that. I feel as though like we been in this so long that we all getting tired of it. Like we been beatin’ our bodies up so long. But it be important to be in situations like this now, like [Roach] talkin’, that sparks the plug again.”

Davis, who made his pro debut in February 2013, discussed after the press conference Tuesday that he would like to undergo extensive therapy that he believes he needs to become a better person and father to his two young daughters. He alluded to living a calmer lifer outside the ring during the press conference as well.

“I probably [would] be more like building my real estate portfolio,” Davis said, “and I guess tryna separate myself from the limelight, you know?”

The 30-year-old Davis opened as a 16-1 favorite to beat Roach, who has moved up from the junior lightweight limit of 130 pounds to challenge Davis for his WBA 135-pound championship. Davis is The Ring’s number one-ranked fighter in the lightweight division, whereas Roach is The Ring’s fourth-ranked junior lightweight.

Keith Idec is a staff writer for The Ring. He can be reached on X @idecboxing.