Gervonta ‘Tank’ Davis might be defending his WBA light-weight title in Houston in opposition to Lamont Roach Jr. on PBC on Prime Video PPV on December 14th.
Dan Rafael studies that Davis vs. Roach is heading in direction of Houston, Texas, the place Gervonta spends a whole lot of time. No phrase on who the co-feature bout might be, nevertheless it’s going to want an excellent combat to encourage followers to pay $75.95 to order the occasion on Prime Video PPV.
For that worth, the occasion gained’t promote with out a nice co-feature and undercard as a result of followers will not be excited by paying to look at Tank Davis defend in opposition to a fighter pulled up from the tremendous featherweight division. Gervonta vs. Roach gained’t promote in Houston with out a nice combat on the undercard.
That’s what followers paid final time for Tank’s title protection in opposition to Frank Martin with David Benavidez vs. Oleksandr Gvozdy on the undercard.
WBC interim gentle heavyweight champion Benavidez has been talked about just lately as presumably combating Jesse Hart on the Tank Davis undercard in December, however that hasn’t been confirmed. Benavidez’s promoter, Sampson Lewkowicz, couldn’t reveal something this week about his subsequent combat.
Tank reportedly had the choice of defending his WBA light-weight title in opposition to #3 ranked contender Edwin De Los Santos, however selected tremendous featherweight Lamont Roach as an alternative. One can draw their very own conclusion about why Tank wished the finesse fighter Roach as an alternative of the harmful puncher De Los Santos.
It’s not stunning that the Tank-Roach combat is being proven on PPV as a result of Tank’s fights are pay-per-view, nevertheless it’s nonetheless a disappointment that his administration at Premier Boxing Champions picked this opponent.
The WBA has given Lamont Roach particular permission to briefly freeze his tremendous featherweight title and transfer as much as light-weight to problem Gervonta for his belt.
If Roach wins, he has 5 days to determine whether or not to maintain the light-weight title or transfer again right down to 130 to defend his tremendous featherweight belt with that group.
