Lamont Roach = The best Gervonta Davis could get

The WBA lightweight champion, Gervonta Davis, will face Lamont Roach Jr. on December 14. defend. Fans have let Tank (30-0, 28 KOs) and PBC know they aren’t happy with this pick, but Roach (25-1-1, 10 KOs) is the best they can get.

Davis needed an opponent, and Roach was perfect for the job. The event will be shown on PBC Amazon Prime Video PPV staged at the Toyota Center in Houston, Texas. Roach (29) is a featherweight world champion and one of the best in the division.

While fans may be outraged, there is no one more worth fighting for Gervonta than Roach. If PBC had chosen Andy Cruz or Floyd Schofield as its opponent for December 14, the criticism would be just as severe as it is for their choice of Roach.

The top lightweights were not available:

• Shakur Stevenson: The #1 pick, WBC champion Shakur, is out with a hand injury, and his new promoters at Matchroom plan to bring him back against William Zepeda next February. This would be the easiest fight to make for Tank if not for Shakur suffering a hand injury while training for a fight against Joe Cordina.
• William Zepeda: Golden Boy fighter Zepeda will fight Tevin Farmer next month on “Latino Night” on November 16 in Riyadh.
• Denys Berincyk: The WBO champion had planned to defend against Mark Chamberlain, but he was upset last month on September 21.
• Vasily Lomachenko: The IBF lightweight champion has opted to take the remainder of 2024 off, and it is unknown if he will ever fight again. If he does, it’s still doubtful he’ll agree to fight back.

The picks for Tank came down to either sitting on the shelf for the rest of 2024 or being busy by picking Roach. Would fans have been happy if Tank didn’t fight at all? He wasn’t about to let an entire year go by without a fight, having been out of action for over a year after his fight against Ryan Garcia in 2023. Tank hadn’t fought in 14 months until his last fight against Frank Martin did not return. June.

Roach is a good fighter and will give Tank Davis a tough fight on December 14th. He is more talented than Frank Martin and Ryan Garcia. Those guys give Tank a run for his money in their fights against him before they get knocked out. This is not a soft throwaway fight as some boxing fans mistakenly believe.

Roach has won his last six fights since suffering his only career loss to Jamel Herring in 2019 in a 12-round unanimous decision.