GERVONTA ‘Tank’ Davis’ coach Kenny Ellis showed that Tank’s weight is at 139.2 lbs with still 55 days away from his title defense of his WBA lightweight belt against Lamont Roach on March 1st at the Barclays Center in Brooklyn, New York.
The lightweight division is loaded with weight bullies, boiled-down welterweights who choose to fight in this weight class because they have massive advantages once they rehydrate. Tank believes in himself and doesn’t need to use these tactics to win. There’s a whole nest of weight bullies at 135. The division 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 reach the 135-lb limit for his fight against Roach (25-1-1, 10 KOs) on March 1. That’s unheard of in this era, with all the weight bullies fighting one to two divisions below their sizes.
Tank is old school and pure class, choosing to fight in the right division without trying sneaky stuff to capitalize on fighting smaller guys. He would drain down to featherweight at 126 or even 122 if he used his size to destroy his smaller opposition.
Given Davis’ size, he should fight at super bantamweight. That would put him in a position to challenge the Japanese star Naoya Inoue, who holds all four belts in the 122-lb weight class. Inoue couldn’t make an excuse for not fighting Tank if he were fighting in that division, which is where he should be given his small size.
If Tank is already at 139.2 lbs 55 days from March 1st, he should be fighting at 122, not 135, where he would be gunning for Inoue. You can understand why Tank chooses to fight at 135, though, 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 U.S. have never heard of.
Roach is the same size or bigger than Tank. Although Roach is moving up in weight, he’s the size of a Tank. So, fans’ argument about Tank fighting a smaller guy is wrong. He and Roach are essentially the same size.
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