Did Gervonta Davis receive a special treatment? Referee’s decision to stop the count after the knee draws scrutiny

The manager of Lamont Roach, Robert Diaz, was furious at the referee’s decision to stop the count after the WBA light champion Gervonta “Tank”, Davis put a knee in the ninth round after beating a dagger on his head at Barclays Center in Brooklyn, New York.

Demand for disqualification

Diaz says Gervonta’s decision to make a knee, Turn your back and walk to your corner Immediately afterwards, a defeat and disqualification should have been governed. In both cases, the referee, Steve Willis, let him go without stopping the struggle or give credit to the Challenger Roach (25-1-2, 10 kos) for a starting stroke. The two calls exploited by the referee affected the results of the fight, which was scored as a tie of most 12 rounds. The scores were 115-113 for the tank, 114-114 and 114-114. Virtually everyone saw that Roach won easily.

The Davis tank stated that a knee was taken because He had fat in his eyes. This is a poor excuse because the fighters usually greased in their eyes during the fights, and they do not make a knee and then walk to their corner to achieve it. Why did Davis allow you to do this for the referee?

Diaz claims that he immediately tried to talk to the staff of the New York State Athletic Commission on the site, asking them what they were “calling”. However, the referee’s call was allowed to be tuning without calling a disqualification.

Special treatment?

What gets worse is that the tank is a superstar and it looks like fans who were received a special treatment that a less popular fighter would not be if they had taken a knee and move away after setting on foot. This is a blow and a disqualification under normal circumstances.

“I was upset when I saw the count began and then stopped. I went to the commission (New York’s athletic state) and said,” How do we call it? I just want to know how you call it. Everyone saw that it was a defeat. You don’t want to give -once? Turn your back, this is disqualification. There are two disqualifications and one defeat. If you get the defeat, you get victory, “said Roach’s manager Robert Diaz to Boxing news In the ninth round of Gervonta ‘Tank’ Davis that the referee, Steve Willis, did not call last Saturday night.

“When did you start counting, how do you stop your count? I will give it to Monday, make the call and talk to people and I will say, “What happened here?” I do not see them reverse the decision, but I see them saying, “OK, we do a resuscitation,” said Díaz.