Saturday night on Showtime, WBA #1 Gervonta “Tank” Davis (22-0, 21 KOs) takes on #2 Yuriorkis Gamboa (30-2, 18 KOs) for the vacant WBA lightweight belt and WBA light heavyweight champion Jean Pascal (34-6-1, 20 KOs) defends against WBA #11 Badou Jack (22-2-3, 13 KOs).
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Good test for “Tank”. We’ll be able to see how he looks at 135 and what he can bring. Kid always looks poised and so far has always delivered awesome performances. Hopefully he can rack up a couple wins and see what he can do vs Loma. He looks pretty excited to fight for this one.
Its a great card and I am looking forward to it.
The confidence of all six fighters seems to be through the roof, so there’s a good chance we will see historical fireworks.
I don’t think that the outcome of any of these fights is easy to predict, but here my thoughts:
1/ Uzcategui vs. Thompson: Uzca is going into this fight as the favorite but he wasn’t very convincing in his last fights. Thompson is experienced and used to heavy punchers but he has always come up short in big fights. I think that both will show up in their best shape and Uzca will pull off a hard-fought decision or KO.
2/ Badou Jack vs. Pascal: Badou had only two fights in the last 2 years, and he may either show up really fresh or have some ring rust. Pascal just beat Browne, who beat Badou. Badou will probably go into this fight as the favorite, but I think that the momentum is on Pascal’s side and although he is old (37), he may pull off the win.
3/ Gamboa vs. Tank Davis: Davis KO’s 21 of his 22 opponents, so its hard to bet against him. If Gamboa would be younger (he’s already 38), I would have favored him to win against Davis because he’s in my eyes a better boxer. At this age however, I think Davis will overpower and knock him out. But I have no doubt that Gamboa is able to hurt Davis and Davis will have to fight very hard for it. Stoppage by Davis in the late rounds.
No matter how one wants to look at it, its a great card and I am sure we will see some very interesting fights.
I agree it’s a solid card
You are right, Gamboa’s adversary in this matchup is his age. At 38, Gamboa may have a puncher’s chance to turn the fight around. However, youth prevails in this matchup and Davis’ speed will catch up to Gamboa and eventually drop him on the canvas.
Davis by KO
Gamboa has low gas tank, past his prime
So if tank is a lightweight now, is he ready for Teófimo?
This is a two ways street. Is Teofimo ready for Tank?
I my opinion this is the real dream fight, a fight very hard to predict, brutally explosive.
I would go with Teofimo within 4 rounds. He is the bigger man, a full fledged Lightweight, with the frame of a Welterweight, Gervonta size is more of a Featherweight than a Lightweight, but his power is accurate and deadly.
What happens with the rankings why this guy’s fighting for a vacant title that’s bull crap