Comments Thread For: Gervonta Davis Fails to Make Weight Twice for Walsh Fight

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Gervonta Davis was overweight twice Friday in London for his first defense of the IBF super featherweight title.

Baltimore's Davis (17-0, 16 KOs) was two ounces overweight on his first attempt. He had two full hours to come back to the British Boxing Board of Control scale to meet the 130-pound limit for his fight Saturday night against Liam Walsh.

He didn't use all of the alloted time, apparently because he thought he would make weight the second time. Davis still didn't meet the 130-pound limit and seemed stunned by the result on the scale.
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[NEETzsche]

So he still gets one more attempt? Was pretty silly to come back early and then miss the target again. Possibly been using a bad scale in camp?

[soul_survivor]

he oculd be stripped? whats the could all about? the lad should be stripped of his title

[The Big Dunn]

It's 2oz so maybe the British scale has been tampered with.

Bizarre since he made weight in camp yesterday.

[Boxing Logic]

Good. The title should be stripped anyway because a real champion should be the best, be willing to fight the best, but Davis' team has openly stated they still view him as a prospect, and want to build his money, and get him more experience, before he fights the best, such as Lomachenko.

That's fine, he just shouldn't have a belt hostage then. He should fight other prospects and veterans and regional level guys like Walsh until he's gotten that experience he needs to actually fight for the CHAMPIONSHIP, and fight the other champions.

So this could actually be a blessing in disguise for the division. I think it also shows that Davis may not be as good as people thought against Pedraza, or as powerful, but rather a weight bully who fought a smaller guy who was too dumb to realize he was the smaller guy and fought a dumb fight. We'll see if his power carries when he fights guys his size at 135. He may even be as big as the 140 guys, but we don't know that yet.

[Earl-Hickey]

Strip this idiot

[NEETzsche]

It's 2oz so maybe the British scale has been tampered with.

Bizarre since he made weight in camp yesterday.

More likely that his personal scale is wrong than the official one is

[Boxing Logic]

he oculd be stripped? whats the could all about? the lad should be stripped of his title

He's with Floyd and Al Haymon, so the boxingscene writers have to hedge a little that they'll be allowed to break the rules without punishment like always. This is such a time honored rule however that it will really, really expose the sanctioning body, and ruin their credibility for decades, if they let a fighter keep their belt without making weight. I expect this to be an open and shut case of him getting his belt stripped, but with these characters involved, and the corruption in boxing surrounding these characters, you can never be 100% sure until it happens.

But, I think this is a pretty safe one to assume. I mean, it's the rule.

[Kigali]

Strip this idiot

Nobody is going to strip him...don't get your little hopes up.

[KnockoutKings]

might be time to move up?