Tank Davis: Defying the Light Cheat Code

GERVONTA ‘Tank’ Davis’ trainer Kenny Ellis proved that Tank’s weight is a 139.2 pounds with 55 days to go until 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 thugs, reduced 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 whole nest of peso thugs at 135. Division needs rehydration limits.

The discipline of the tank

With two months to go, Tank Davis (30-0, 28 KOs) only needs to lose 4.2 pounds to make the 135-pound limit for his fight against Roach (25-1-1, 10 KOs) on Jan. 1 march This is unheard of. of this era, with all the heavyweight thugs fighting one or two divisions below their size.

Tank is old school and pure class, choosing to fight in the proper division without trying sneaky things to take advantage of fighting smaller guys. He would be depleted to a featherweight at 126 or even 122 if he used his size to destroy his smaller opposition.

Given Davis’ size, he should fight at super bantamweight. That would put him in a position to challenge the Japanese star Naoya Inouewho holds all four belts in the 122-pound weight class. Inoue couldn’t find an excuse not to fight Tank if he was fighting in this division, which is where he should be given his small size.

If Tank is already 139.2 pounds 55 days from March 1st, he should be fighting at 122, not 135, where he would give Inoue a shot. 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 people that US fans have never heard of.

Roach is the same size or larger than Tank. Although Roach is gaining weight, he is the size of a tank. So the fan argument about Tank fighting a smaller guy is incorrect. He and Roach are essentially the same size.