BALTIMORE — The FedEx package containing the junior lightweight championship belt, intended for Gervonta Davis, arrived at the gym too early in the day.
Davis often trains late into the night, running the streets of Baltimore, and sleeps until midday. So it was his coach Calvin Ford — he sleeps much less, sometimes just an hour a night — who found the attempted-delivery note when he got to Upton Boxing Center, a gym in one of the city’s most blighted neighborhoods.