GERVONTA ‘Tank’ Davis’ trainer Kenny Ellis has shown that Tank’s weight is at 139.2 lbs with still 55 days away from his WBA lightweight title defense against Lamont Roach on March 1 at the Barclays Center in Brooklyn, New York.
The lightweight division is loaded with heavyweight bullies, boiled welterweights who choose to fight in this weight class because they have massive advantages once they rehydrate. Tank believes in himself and doesn’t need to use these tactics to win. There is one healthy nest of weight bullies at 135. The division needs rehydration limits.
Tank Discipline
With two months to go, Tank Davis (30-0, 28 KOs) needs to lose just 4.2 lbs to make the 135 lb limit for his fight against Roach (25-1-1, 10 KOs) on March 1st. of in this era, with all the weight bullies fighting one to two divisions below their size.
Tank is old school and pure class, choosing to fight in the right division without trying sneaky things to capitalize on the fight with the smaller guys. He would drop down to featherweight at 126 or even 122 if he used his size to destroy his smaller opposition.
Given Davis’ size, he should fight super bantamweight. That would put him in a position to challenge the Japanese star Naoya Inouewho holds all four belts in the 122 lb weight class. Inoue couldn’t make an excuse for not fighting Tank if he was fighting in that division, which is where he should be given his small size.
If Tank is already at 139.2 lbs 55 days from March 1, he should be fighting at 122, not 135, where he would disappear for Inoue. You can understand why Tank chooses to fight at 135, though, because it’s easier to make weight, and he has more names to fight. At 122 years old, there’s only Inoue and a bunch of obscure nobodys that fans in the US have never heard of.
Roach is the same size or larger than Tank. Although Roach moves in weight, it is the size of a Tank. So, the fan argument about Tank fighting a smaller guy is wrong. He and Roach are essentially the same size.
