By Keith Idec

NEW YORK – Gervonta Davis was very respectful of Jose Pedraza in the aftermath of his dominant victory over the former champion.

Davis has taken issue, however, with Pedraza pointing to his difficulty making weight as a contributing factor in their title fight Saturday night in Brooklyn. Through a translator, Pedraza alluded in the ring following his seventh-round technical knockout defeat to his decision to remain at 130 pounds to defend his IBF world super featherweight title against Davis ultimately being a mistake.

The undefeated Davis sent out this Tweet on Monday: "No disrespect to Pedraza and his team but please stop making excuses about why you lost. I lost a lot of weight also."

Puerto Rico’s Pedraza (22-1, 12 KOs) stands 5-foot-8½, tall for the 130-pound division. But the 27-year-old former Olympian had to weigh in at 130 pounds or less for each of the four fights before facing Davis because three were world title fights and one was an IBF elimination match.

The 5-6 Davis (17-0, 16 KOs), who’s promoted by Floyd Mayweather Jr., weighed in at 135½ pounds for his previous fight, a first-round knockout of Mexico’s Mario Macias (28-21, 14 KOs, 1 NC) on June 3 in Hollywood, Florida. Before weighing 129 pounds Friday fight this title fight, Davis hadn’t weighed in at less than 131¼ pounds for any of his five previous fights.

Weight aside, Pedraza was considered a huge jump up in competition for the 22-year-old Davis, a decorated amateur who hadn’t fought a ranked contender in any of his first 16 professional fights. The powerful southpaw still handled Pedraza relatively easily on his way to becoming boxing’s youngest current world champion in a fight Showtime televised from Barclays Center.

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