Comments Thread For: Fighting Words: Gervonta Davis-Lamont Roach isn't ideal, but neither are the circumstances

[MoneyKing]

Gervonta Davis vs Frank Martin did 150,000 PPV BUYS. Tank Stank is a nobody. Tank a certified goofy lol. PBC are failures, soon to be out of business.

[_Rexy_]

These top lightweights need to stop facing the Tevin's and Roach's of the world. Having said that, Loma should have never gone deep into negotiations with Davis and string Davis and his team along like that - so that is on Loma because Davis would have signed the Loma fight and a superfight would have been born. But there are other fighters better than Roach.

Oh yeah...History sure proves that one.

Tank facing another awful opponent is Lomas fault, not the fault of the 31 year old prospect.

[MONGOOSE66]

Gervonta is a fraud and pbc hypejob

Yup, 30! Years old and has NEVER fought a big name in their prime much less even trying to get the other 3 belts. Retire already. He dont love boxing.

[richardt]

Oh yeah...History sure proves that one.

Tank facing another awful opponent is Lomas fault, not the fault of the 31 year old prospect.

A) They were deep in negotiations and Loma, not Tank, pulled out of the superfight. And B) you didn't read my entire post or you would have read the part where I mentioned there were better fighters than Roach so you are preaching to the choir.

[MONGOOSE66]

These top lightweights need to stop facing the Tevin's and Roach's of the world. Having said that, Loma should have never gone deep into negotiations with Davis and string Davis and his team along like that - so that is on Loma because Davis would have signed the Loma fight and a superfight would have been born. But there are other fighters better than Roach.

Huh? Teo fought Loma at 23. Haney fought Loma at 24. Tank has never wanted to fight Loma till he thought he was OLD. Real brave of him.

[MONGOOSE66]

Instead of dragging another guy up a weight ....why doesn't The Face of Boxing move up a weight and fight Lil Teo Jr , he doesn't have anything on his radar. Or Shakur Stevenson , he's not busy right now . **** , Devin Haney is looking for a fight too. Why not fight any of those guys ?

Hes waiting for Loma to need a walker. Thats a big fight for tank CASUALS!! We all know that casuals are the ones who buy fights. Tank know it too. Keep feeding them casuals tank.

[richardt]

Huh? Teo fought Loma at 23. Haney fought Loma at 24. Tank has never wanted to fight Loma till he thought he was OLD. Real brave of him.

You can completely ignore the fact that Tank vs Loma was clearly still a superfight that countless fans wanted to see. Loma pulled out, not Tank. And many still saw this as a 50-50 fight. It would have been better late than never. Sure, Tank should have fought Loma years ago but this was still one of the best matchups in boxing - thats why every boxing fan wanted to see the fight. Loma nixed it. And after Loma's performance against Haney and Kambosos, two younger guys, Loma looked anything but old. And damn near beat the younger Haney. No one is saying Tank is not to blame for a lot, and fighting Roach is not a good move, as I said more than once, many fighters that are better than Roach to pick from.

[Phase III]

He is neither a fraud or a hype job he can fight like fck and capable of beating anyone near his size in the world.

The problem is management and opponent selections, they want the easy high paying jobs, all fighters go through this same BS when they on top, the way I see Tank is he has only a handful of fights left so should fight the best opponents in the world at this stage of his career, haters are always using this stuff to hate on the fighter, I hate crap opponents as much as the next guy but its doesnt change the class of fighter that Tank is.

I agree with you, however, I just can’t figure out what’s on Al Haymon’s mind by constantly having Tank fight opponents that promoters usually use to build, rehab a fighter like AJ for example, or protect a fighter.

This just doesn’t make sense.

[Hands of Stone]

He is neither a fraud or a hype job he can fight like fck and capable of beating anyone near his size in the world.

The problem is management and opponent selections, they want the easy high paying jobs, all fighters go through this same BS when they on top, the way I see Tank is he has only a handful of fights left so should fight the best opponents in the world at this stage of his career, haters are always using this stuff to hate on the fighter, I hate crap opponents as much as the next guy but its doesnt change the class of fighter that Tank is.

So exactly what class of fighter is he if he won't test himself against the best? Easy to look great if you are fighting overmatched fighters or fighters at a disadvantage. I like Tank but this pattern is just indefensible at this point. Dude is straight ducking any major smoke. Let's call it what it is.

[Hands of Stone]

These top lightweights need to stop facing the Tevin's and Roach's of the world. Having said that, Loma should have never gone deep into negotiations with Davis and string Davis and his team along like that - so that is on Loma because Davis would have signed the Loma fight and a superfight would have been born. But there are other fighters better than Roach.

Sure let's blame Loma for a clear pattern that Tank has shown over his what is it 11 year career. This exactly is why he keeps doing it 'cos he knows he can pull a wool over so many of your eyes. Have given him benefit of the doubt 'cos I like his fighting style but dude is a complete joke at this point.