Looks like WBA lightweight champion Gervonta “Tank” Davis (30-0, 28 KOs) will face WBA super featherweight champion Lamont Roach Jr. (25-1-1, 10 KOs) next. Davis-Roach will likely land on December 14, possibly in Houston. Official announement to come soon.
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– Go Tank, go !!!!!!!!!!!!!
tank is smooth cherry picker
He should fight Ryan at 140 and this time tank should not request dehydration clause like he did
And Ryan should compromise to make the 140 lbs
Ryan should fight another 140 pounder like Teofimo Lopez. Make weight like a professional bare minimum and stop taking PEDS. True, Tank needs to fight better fights instead of these types of fights.
Don’t you listen to the interviews on
Fluff Tube? King Ostarine said he can’t go lower than 143 any more.
140 out of the question.
King Ostarine said he can’t go lower than 143. Ain’t happening.
Looking forward to this fight. Heck, I forgot about Lamont Roach, Jr. Let’s hope both fighters display good offense and good defense. Gervonta’s pop will make a difference in the late rounds.
A relatively ‘safe’ opponent for Davis IMO. Although Roach is talented the increase in weight alone puts him at a big disadvantage. Pity we didn’t get a Zepeda fight with Shakur currently on the sidelines.
Surprised they are not having it in DC Metro area. Both fighters hail from that way! I like Roach, I think he is a wonderful boxer, but does have the skills or power to keep David off him.
What it should have said was, I don’t think he has the skills or power to keep David off of him.
No. He does not. I like Roach as well, think he’s one of the more underrated and overlooked world champions right now, but he shouldn’t trouble Tank much. He is a very good boxer, not a great one and he isn’t much of a puncher at all and that’s judging him against guys at 130. Roach would have to fight a perfect fight to beat Tank.
People are really excited about Davis fighting another opponent from a lower division. Wow. Yall really excited for this. I’m done!
Agreed. This would be a good fight for the DMV area, as Tank has fought and decisioned Roach in the amateurs. In terms of the outcome, Roach does not crack like that at 130 lbs, so he definitely doesn’t bother Tank at 135 lbs.
Why is he fighting a junior lightweight?, these fighters today and there are some good ones but they fight one maybe twice a year, maybe, a few of them Davis inculded make as much money as you can, sometime’s waiting on a certain fight may never happen and then you find yourself fighting for half what you wanted and your rusty and stale, bad things happen to those that wait
This fight belongs in Baltimore or DC. However, I’m still interested in seeing a Tank vs. Loma matchup sometime in 2025!
Tank versus Rayo. Best matchup at 135 if
Rayo can still make 135.
Yawn.
The other guy a bit smaller?
What a shock!!! Who would have guessed?
zzzzzzz.
soon, tank will be fighting featherweights, and bantamweights, No never mind, the flyweights might be safer .
He still wants to fight Monster. Little man wants to be the King Of The Little Men.
The only way to stop these nonsense fights are for us the fans to quit paying for them. Then , and only then will we get the fights we actually deserve to see.
Fights like this are why Tank is called a 30 year old prospect. When reflecting on 135- 140:
Teofimo: fought Lomachenko and Josh Taylor.
Haney: went to Australia twice to fight Kam, fought Lomachenko and Ryan.
Ryan: fought Haney and Tank
Lomachenko: Cleaned out 135 at one point in his career. Fought Haney and Teofimo
Tank: fought Ryan who didn’t have the ring IQ to compete with him. Whenever the media would asks him about Haney, Lomachenko or any top fighter that is a threat to him without fail he blows it off or says, “I don’t want to talk about those guys.” Whenever he’s unable to find anyone like Frank Martin in the division he reached back to 130lb division to find another victim.
If he has a fan base that’s willing to ignore this, then why not continue to make a great living fighting guys who aren’t a threat? This is why Tank doesn’t like turki alashikh. He doesn’t want anyone threating to put him in a position where he has to fight another top guy.
Inclined to agree.
Wash , rinse and repeat
That is Tank’s theme and his fans fall for it all the time
Roach , a smaller fighter being dragged up to fight the so called face of boxing
Can’t make this chit up
Are we noticing a pattern here? Tank is still the best at 135 but not taking the big risks.
Tank is bad for the future of boxing.
Folks criticize guys like Floyd Mayweather and Canelo but totally forget they’ve earned their bones to pick and choose. When you line them up, Canelo and Floyd fought guys that put them at risk. To name a few, they fought each other , Cotto, GGG, Diego Corrales, Oscar De la Hoya, Austin Trout, Shane Mosley, Lara, Sergey Kovalev, Bivol, Genaro Hernandez, Emanuel Augustus, Castillo, Corley, Sharmba Mitchell, Zab Judah, Hatton, Marquez, Pacquio, etc
At 30, Tank has managed to avoid all top fighters and his biggest win is again Ryan who was never a champion. He hasn’t earned his bones to be fighting this soft competition at this stage in his career. Future boxers will follow this trend.
In a few days tank will have some argument with mayweather or talk about fighting shakur , Haney or Inoe just to draw attention to himself and this lazy fight he is about to have . The media and the casuals will fall for it and here we go again into 2025 with the same BS. This is Getting old !