SAN ANTONIO – Floyd Mayweather wants Gervonta Davis to fight at least twice in 2021, three times if possible.

Mayweather wouldn’t discuss who Davis might fight next year, however, when he was asked about potential opponents during a post-fight press conference after his brutal sixth-round knockout of Leo Santa Cruz late Saturday night at Alamodome. As soon as undefeated, elite lightweights Teofimo Lopez and Devin Haney were mentioned as possible foes for lightweight title fights, Mayweather, whose company promotes Davis, declared that this wasn’t the appropriate time to talk about upcoming opponents.

“As of right now, we wanna enjoy [the victory],” Mayweather said. “Tank had a long training camp. Tank had a long training camp, and we really wanna enjoy this victory. As soon as a fight is over, the first 10 seconds, ‘Who do you wanna fight? Who do you wanna fight?’ Tank is the top dog. Tank is on pay-per-view for a reason. Tank is where he’s at for a reason. So, we don’t wanna come up here and call different names out. ‘Oh, we wanna fight him. We wanna fight him. We wanna fight him.’ We don’t wanna do that. What we wanna do is let him go home and enjoy his self with his family, his daughter, his team. And then we’ll talk about that probably in what, 20, 30 days from now?”

Mayweather and Davis did acknowledge that the unbeaten Baltimore native could remain at 130 pounds, the weight limit at which he fought Santa Cruz (37-2-1, 19 KOs), rather than opposing Lopez, Haney or Ryan Garcia in intriguing lightweight fights. Other than that, they wanted to focus on Davis knocking out Santa Cruz in his debut as a pay-per-view headliner.

“He should be able to enjoy his victory,” Mayweather said. “Why every time a fighter fight, the first [question is], ‘Who you wanna fight next? Who you wanna fight next?’ I put him in a position so he can do the same thing that I did – fight when he wanna fight, fight who he wanna fight. He’s the top dog. And he gonna keep going out there, proving to the world that he is the best. And I’m so proud of him. Like I said before, I’m so, so proud of him. No matter what, you know, when things is said, when you hear certain things in the media about me and Tank, no matter what you hear I’m gonna always love him unconditionally.

“Same way I love my other two sons and my two daughters, I love them the same way. I only want the best for him, and I’m probably happier than he is. I’m proud of him, so proud of him. And I didn’t come on to the other side, as far as to become a promoter, to not share what I had a part [of], what I lived before. I’m glad that it’s him now. He deserve it. Like I said before, and I’m not gonna stop saying it, I’m so happy for him.”

Brooklyn’s Lopez (16-0, 12 KOs) owns four lightweight titles and upset Ukraine’s Vasiliy Lomachenko (14-2, 10 KOs) just two weeks ago, which places him on the same schedule as Davis. Lopez and Davis still are not expected to fight next.

Las Vegas’ Haney (24-0, 15 KOs) is scheduled to defend his WBC world lightweight title against Cuba’s Yuriorkis Gamboa (30-3, 18 KOs) on Saturday night at Seminole Hard Rock Hotel & Casino in Hollywood, Florida (DAZN). Garcia (20-0, 17 KOs), of Victorville, California, is set to encounter England’s Luke Campbell (20-3, 16 KOs) for the WBC interim lightweight title December 5 at Fantasy Springs Resort Casino in Indio, California (DAZN).

Mayweather, meanwhile, will discuss Davis’ foreseeable future with those that have helped build the 25-year-old Davis into a pay-per-view attraction.

“What we have to do is talk about it,” Mayweather said. “I’ll talk about it Monday with my team. I’ll communicate with Al [Haymon], communicate with Leonard [Ellerbe], my PBC team, my Mayweather Promotions team. And we’ll sit down and talk with Showtime, Stephen Espinoza, and see what we come up with. We don’t know what the future holds, but we do know this is a future star – a big star, I should say.” 

Keith Idec is a senior writer/columnist for BoxingScene.com. He can be reached on Twitter @Idecboxing.