Gervonta Davis revealed that he’ll name out his subsequent opponent within the post-fight interview on March 1st after his WBA light-weight title protection in opposition to Lamont Roach on the Barclays Heart in Brooklyn, New York.
Put up-fight Announcement
Boxing followers have already got a good suggestion who it is going to be as a result of Gervonta (30-0, 28 KOs) revealed yesterday who his three-fight checklist is for 2025, and the primary identify he talked about was Ryan Garcia.
Tank’s combat with Ryan generated 1.2 million PPV buys on April 22, 2023, bringing in over $100 million in gross income. Each fighters made cash hand-over-fist, with the Baltimore native bringing in a handbag estimated between $50 million to $60 million.
Focusing on Ryan
Tank says he’s retiring on the finish of 2025, so it is sensible that he would select to combat Ryan Garcia first as a result of it will be too dangerous to attend till the second or third combat subsequent yr. Ryan may get beat by another person. The purse that Gervonta can get in a combat in opposition to Ryan Garcia is immense.
Ryan’s purse was $30M, which is superb for a challenger. The latest success got here right down to Ryan’s large reputation on social media and the exhausting work that he put into promoting the combat with interviews. The occasion offered for $84.99 on PPV, which is clearly much more than Turki Alalshikh’s occasions have been priced at.
Kingry did all of the heavy lifting in selling the combat, permitting Tank to journey on his coattails and letting him do the advertising and marketing of the combat. With Ryan’s 12M Instagram followers, he marketed his combat with Tank continuously, and it’s believed that lots of them bought the occasion on PPV.
Ryan harm Tank with a brief left hook within the second spherical, however he may have capitalized on it as a result of holding that he instantly did. If not for that, Garcia would have gained.
Tank vs. Garcia Punch Stats
– Gervonta: 93 of 235 for 39.6%
– Garcia: 59 of 257 for 23%
Davis can’t make the identical type of cash combating WBC light-weight champion Shakur Stevenson as a result of he doesn’t have an enormous following nationwide within the U.S. His reputation is proscribed to followers who like his yapping on social media and his defensive combating model, enjoying the youngsters’s recreation of tag. You need to actually like that model to observe to have an interest sufficient in watching Shakur combat anyone.
The Callout
Dan Canobio: Three names that you really want in 2025.”
Gervonta Davis: “I gained’t say. I ain’t by no means referred to as no one out.”
Canobbio: “So, it’ll be your first time. So, extra causes to tune in on March 1st.”
Gervonta: “Yeah, however I simply instructed you.”
Tank says he’ll be calling out his subsequent opponent on March 1st — one thing he’s by no means accomplished in his profession 👀 pic.twitter.com/vHBSgBZBoq
— Dan Canobbio (@DanCanobbio) December 4, 2024
