The WBA has angered followers by granting permission for his or her tremendous featherweight champion Lamont Roach to maneuver as much as light-weight to problem Gervonta Davis for his belt with out giving up his belt.
Roach (25-1-1, 10 KOs) has been given particular permission by the World Boxing Affiliation to maneuver as much as light-weight for the chance to leap the road to tackle WBA 135-lb champion Tank Davis (30-0, 28 KOs).
This transfer by the WBA is considered as unfair by the followers, who really feel that Tank Davis shouldn’t be repeatedly permitted to cherry-pick weak punchers from the division under him to permit him to carry onto his light-weight title longer.
It isn’t the primary time that Davis has combed the 130-lb division to seek out an opponent to defend his WBA 135-lb belt towards. In 2020, Tank defended his WBA light-weight title towards Leo Santa Cruz, who got here up from tremendous featherweight to problem him. Final yr, Tank defended his 135-lb belt towards WBA 130-lb champion Hector Garcia, who moved as much as problem him.
That is the third time Tank has scoured the tremendous featherweight division for challengers, and it’s unfair to the contenders ready their flip for a title shot at his WBA light-weight belt.
If Roach is victorious towards Tank, he’ll have 5 days to resolve which of the 2 titles he’ll maintain onto. It will be a no brainer for Roach to carry onto the WBA light-weight title for a profitable rematch towards Tank Davis. If Roach loses, he’ll have 120-lb days to defend towards his WBA official tremendous featherweight challenger.
Followers really feel that Tank Davis needs to be defending his WBA light-weight title towards contenders in his weight class relatively than hand-picking a fighter with little punching energy from the 130-lb division.
Roach is an honest fighter, however he’s not an influence puncher and is considered as only a run-of-the-mill belt holder at tremendous featherweight.
If he was one of many harmful guys like Eduardo ‘Sugar’ Nunez, followers could be happy with Tank Davis defending towards an excellent featherweight. Roach can’t punch, and it’s one other gimme for Tank, very like his previous fights towards Rolando ‘Rolly’ Romero, Frank Martin, Ryan Garcia, Hector Garcia, and Isaac ‘Pitbull’ Cruz.
