Gervonta Davis is rumored to defend his WBA ‘regular’ lightweight title against Lamont Roach in a low yield clash on PPV in December.
Roach (25-1, 15 KOs), who holds the WBA super featherweight title, would move up to 135 to challenge Tank Davis (30-0, 28 KOs) for his secondary lightweight title. So far the Tank Davis vs. Lamont Roach fight not yet confirmed.
This will be seen as another mismatch and soft touch for Tank to ensure he continues to bring in easy money without taking damage.
The interest of the boxing public in a fight between Tank Davis and Roach is minimal, since there are many more convincing opponents available than using a 130-pounder as the opponent. No one wants to see Tank pick Roach out of the super featherweight division to pad his record and sell this mismatch on PPV.
There is more fan interest in watching Tank Davis defend against these fighters:
– Jose ‘Rayo’ Valenzuela
– Devin Haney
– William Zepeda
– Edwin De Los Santos
– Raymond Muratalla
– Floyd Schofield
– Keyshawn Davis
– Andy Cruz
– Denys Berinchyk
This will be considered another example of a cherry pick by Baltimore native Tank Davis who has been very carefully matched during his professional career. As popular as Tank is, he would be a much bigger PPV attraction if his management at PBC did a better job of selecting quality fighters that the American public is interested in watching.
The best PPV fight of Tank Davis’ career was against Ryan Garcia in 2023, which generated 1,200 buys. The reason for those high numbers was because of Ryan, not Tank. Other than one fight, Tank’s biggest PPV numbers are these fights:
– Frank Martin: 350,000
– Rolando Romero: 275,000
– Leo Santa Cruz: 225,000
– Hector Garcia: 220,000
– Mario Barrios: 210,000
– Isaac Cruz: 200,000
Those numbers would be much higher if Tank Davis fought the best instead of those lesser fighters.
It is believed that Tank’s management deliberately matched him against lesser fighters to make him look like a oil well was pumping at low capacity to make it last longer. If that oil well was pumped at maximum capacity to bring in the money, it wouldn’t last that long.
Matching Tank against the best fighters would have already made him a massive star, but he wouldn’t last that long. The downside is that Davis has failed to become a major PPV attraction and is arguably less popular than fighters like Ryan Garcia.
Roach’s best win of his ten-year professional career was a twelve-round split decision against Hector Luis Garcia last November. Tank Davis knocked out Hector in the ninth round in January 2023 in a one-sided fight to show one how much of a mismatch Davis-Roach would be.
