Tank Davis: Challenging the Light Cheat Code

GERVONTA ‘Tank’ Davis’ trainer Kenny Ellis proved that Tank’s weight is in 139.2 pounds There are still 55 days left to defend his WBA lightweight title against Lamont Roach on March 1 at the Barclays Center in Brooklyn, New York.

The lightweight division is full of heavyweight thugs, reduced welterweights who choose to fight in this weight class because they have huge advantages once they rehydrate. Tank believes in himself and doesn’t need to use these tactics to win. there is a whole weight bully nest at 135. Division needs rehydration limits.

Tank Discipline

With two months left, Tank Davis (30-0, 28 KOs) only needs to lose 4.2 pounds to make the 135-pound limit for his fight against Roach (25-1-1, 10 KOs) on March 1. That’s unheard of. of this era, with all the heavyweights fighting one or two divisions below their sizes.

Tank is old school and all class, choosing to fight in the right division without trying sneaky things to profit from fighting smaller guys. He would drop to featherweight at 126 or even 122 if he used his size to destroy his smaller opponents.

Given Davis’ size, he should fight at super bantamweight. That would put him in a position to challenge the Japanese star. Naoya Inouewho holds all four belts in the 122-pound weight class. Inoue wouldn’t be able to make an excuse not to fight Tank if he were fighting in that division, which is where his small size should be given.

If Tank is already 139.2 pounds 55 days from March 1, he should fight at 122, not 135, where he would be targeting Inoue. However, you can understand why Tank chooses to fight at 135, because it’s easier to make weight and he has more names to fight. In 122, it’s just Inoue and a bunch of unknown nobodies that fans in the US have never heard of.

Roach is the same size or larger than Tank. Although Roach is gaining weight, he is the size of a tank. So the fan argument about Tank fighting a smaller guy is incorrect. He and Roach are essentially the same size.