GERVONTA ‘Tank’ Davis’ coach Kenny Ellis confirmed that Tank’s weight is at 139.2 lbs with nonetheless 55 days away from his title protection of his WBA light-weight belt in opposition to Lamont Roach on March 1st on the Barclays Middle in Brooklyn, New York.
The light-weight division is loaded with weight bullies, boiled-down welterweights who select to combat on this weight class as a result of they’ve large benefits as soon as they rehydrate. Tank believes in himself and doesn’t want to make use of these techniques to win. There’s a complete nest of weight bullies at 135. The division wants rehydration limits.
Tank’s Self-discipline
With two months to go, Tank Davis (30-0, 28 KOs) solely must lose 4.2 lbs to succeed in the 135-lb restrict for his combat in opposition to Roach (25-1-1, 10 KOs) on March 1. That’s extraordinary on this period, with all the load bullies combating one to 2 divisions beneath their sizes.
Tank is old style and pure class, selecting to combat in the proper division with out making an attempt sneaky stuff to capitalize on combating smaller guys. He would drain right down to featherweight at 126 and even 122 if he used his dimension to destroy his smaller opposition.
Given Davis’ dimension, he ought to combat at tremendous bantamweight. That might put him able to problem the Japanese star Naoya Inoue, who holds all 4 belts within the 122-lb weight class. Inoue couldn’t make an excuse for not combating Tank if he had been combating in that division, which is the place he needs to be given his small dimension.
If Tank is already at 139.2 lbs 55 days from March 1st, he needs to be combating at 122, not 135, the place he can be gunning for Inoue. You’ll be able to perceive why Tank chooses to combat at 135, although, as a result of it’s simpler to make weight, and he has extra names to combat. At 122, there’s solely Inoue and a bunch of obscure nobodies that followers within the U.S. have by no means heard of.
Roach is similar dimension or greater than Tank. Though Roach is transferring up in weight, he’s the dimensions of a Tank. So, followers’ argument about Tank combating a smaller man is unsuitable. He and Roach are primarily the identical dimension.
