GERVONTA ‘Tank’ Davis’ trainer Kenny Ellis showed that Tank’s weight at 139.2 lbs with 55 days left until he defends his WBA lightweight belt against Lamont Roach on March 1 at the Barclays Center in Brooklyn, New York.
Lightweight is full of bullies, boiled welterweight who choose to fight in this weight class because they have huge advantages when they rehydrate. Tank believes in himself and doesn’t need to use these tactics to win. There is a whole a nest of weight bullies at 135. The department needs rehydration limits.
Tank’s Discipline
With two months to go, Tank Davis (30-0, 28 KOs) only needs to lose 4.2 lbs to make the 135 lb limit for his fight against Roach (25-1-1, 10 KOs) on March 1st. That’s unheard of in this era, with all the bullies fighting one to two divisions below their size.
Tank is old school and pure class, choosing to fight in the right division without trying to do sneaky things to take advantage of fights with smaller guys. He would drop down to featherweight at 126 or even 122 if he used his size to destroy his smaller opposition.
Given Davis’ size, he should fight in the super bantamweight division. That would put him in a position to challenge the Japanese star Naoya Inouewhich holds all four belts in the 122 lb weight class. Inoue couldn’t find an excuse for not fighting Tank if he was fighting in that division, where he should be given his small size.
If Tank is already 139.2 lbs 55 days from March 1st, he should be fighting at 122, not 135, where he would be shooting for Inoue. You can understand why Tank chooses to fight at 135, because it’s easier to make weight and he has more names to fight. At 122, there’s only Inoue and a bunch of obscure nobodies that fans in the US have never heard of.
Roach is the same size or larger than the tank. Although the Roach is growing in weight, it is the size of a tank. So the fan’s argument about Tank fighting a smaller guy is wrong. He and Roach are basically the same size.