Gervonta ‘Tank’ Davis vs. Lamont Roach reportedly might be postponed till 2025 as an alternative of the scheduled December 14th date.
Boxing insider Dan Rafael studies that he’s listening to that there’s a “good probability” it received’t occur on December 14h as a consequence of venue issues. He says he hears it’s “50-50” that it nonetheless happens on that date, nevertheless it might be moved to 2025.
Rafael says there haven’t been any press conferences or press releases to announce the Tank vs. Roach struggle as a result of “every part is on maintain” due to the venue, the Toyota Middle in Houston, Texas. He’s listening to there aren’t any issues with the fighters’ offers; it’s extra in regards to the venue.
Will Tank-Roach Be Canceled?
Followers can be overjoyed if the Tank-Roach struggle have been canceled completely as a result of it’s seen as an unexciting mismatch. PBC can be doing the world a strong in the event that they canceled this abomination completely and began from scratch, selecting out a highly-ranked light-weight to problem Gervonta for his WBA belt quite than utilizing the feather-fisted 130-pounder Roach.
WBA light-weight champion Tank Davis (30-0, 28 KOs) is a large puncher and can seemingly make straightforward work of the pure boxer Roach. Roach’s offensive armament doesn’t comprise something to carry the 29-year-old Tank off or make him assume twice about occurring the assault.
Tank’s excuse for selecting to struggle tremendous featherweight Roach is that it’s a regional struggle in that a part of the East Coast, so the followers in that space can be excited by watching it. Nevertheless, the struggle was imagined to be staged in Houston, Texas.
It’s not like Tank’s followers from Baltimore, Maryland, or Roach’s followers from Washington, D.C., will wish to journey to Texas to see this struggle. If that is all about PPV buys, it’s not price it.
The remainder of the U.S. received’t wish to pay to look at this mismatch. Roach is just not well-known to followers, and those who do know of him noticed him get crushed by Jamel Herring.