The unification combat between light-weight champions Gervonta ‘Tank’ Davis and Vasily Lomachenko is on maintain. IBF champion Lomachenko’s supervisor, Egis Klimas, revealed that Loma isn’t motivated to combat WBA champion Tank Davis proper now.
Klimas says Lomachenko can’t put together for the combat if he’s not motivated; proper now, he’s not enthusiastic about it.
The combat may nonetheless occur later this yr, however it is going to be as much as Lomachenko to resolve if he’s keen on combating. He’s coming off an eleventh-round knockout win over former unified light-weight champion George Kambosos Jr. on Might twelfth in Perth, Australia. He’s not keen on returning to motion proper now.
Klimas instructed Steve Kim on X that Lomachenko (18-3, 12 KOs) is “not within the temper proper now. He doesn’t have the motivation at that second.”
Followers need to see the Tank-Lomachenko combat as a result of it could be Tank’s first combat of his 11-year skilled profession, and he may lose.
Till now, Tank Davis’ administration and former promoters matched him to maintain him out of hurt’s method, so there’s by no means confronted a high quality man like Lomachenko.
If Lomachenko does select to take the rest of this yr off with out combating Gervonta (30-0, 28 KOs), there will likely be plenty of grumbling from and who will see it as a case of him ducking the combat. However Lomachenko is 36 and fights when he needs to at this level. Cash just isn’t Loma’s motivation like it’s for different fighters.
“With Loma, simply cash just isn’t what motivates him,” stated Klimas. “He doesn’t take something simply due to cash. You’ll be able to supply him thousands and thousands, tens of thousands and thousands of {dollars}. If he doesn’t have motivation, he’s not prepared to organize for the combat.”
Lomachenko would get the most important payday of his profession combating Tank Davis, nevertheless it’s unclear how the cash would change Loma’s life.
Tank’s fashion of combating, through which he throws only a few punches and simply waits to land a KO shot, just isn’t motivating for Lomachenko. He’s too passive and appears to load up on a kill shot. Lomachenko would field Tank’s head off, leaving him solely a small handful of alternatives to land, and depart it as much as the judges to attain the combat pretty or not..
