Per Frank Bay: On the 3 Knockdown rule with Mario Lopez and Steve Kim, Dougie Fischer, editor of the Ring Magazine, agreed with me across the Lomaont Roach countries. Listen, that’s not to say that Tank Davis has won the battle or sounds like the Tank Davis groups in the comments section that claims to be the face of boxing, adding that you should take it from the champion.
Tank Davis deserves to lose, but got his A-side PBC treatment and deserves it. He also deserved to lose about Lamont Roach. The simple and simple truth is that Lamont Roach did not do enough to win the battle convincingly! This is the uncomfortable, unpopular truth.
Fighting is scored through the round, and during the first five rounds Lamont Roach landed on average less than 5 strokes per round, and in one case the screen flashed that he landed zero at the end of a round. Let it sink, readers. It was a pathetic, poor struggle for most of its expensive part.
What it is called in sports terms does not play to lose, rather than playing to win. Roach is very guilty of this, and it should be noticed. The most knowledgeable box fans who go into battle knew that Tank Davis would get all the calls and dare when we said he was allowed to cheat his way to a victory.
Let me say it again: We all knew it, so it is safe to say Roach and his team would have to be brain dead not to be at least aware that they would not get the benefit of the doubt if it was close. During the fight, it was true that Davis told Roach: ‘You’re not going to win a close one. ‘Lifetime boxing fans are aware of this dirty little secret about our beloved sport. Yes, corruption exists, and money talk. Strigrag and ticket sales matter more than W’s or L’s. We saw it earlier in the day when Paddy Donavan was probably cheated on a victory because the referee made a DQ call.
Apart from the blatant who allowed referee Steve Willis, it also came out that we could not trust the commissions to do the right things as the New York Commission, if confronted with the obvious fraud, they had ‘technical problems’ at that exact moment and could not make the call during the fight. We pay fans are left to growl and take it on the chin. So, you tell fans who bought the $ 100 PPV match, which on the biggest stage of Boxing, not a local gym with club fighters, but a team of television production members flock to the world, at top -level professional people who work on a lively feed, and have had the commission at the worst time? Sorry mate, I don’t buy it.
I will tell you that Lamont Roach knows that he has not done enough during the fight. There comes a time when a fighter should be aware of the situation. Roach had to put his mark on the fight and leave no doubt in someone’s mind that he was the legal winner. The audience must be honest with themselves and acknowledge that Roach was simply unwilling to do what had to be done, and that it was all left in the ring.
This is what we have seen with Artur Betterbiev against Dmitri Biblical. Both men were content to leave it close and not take the risk needed to close the show, such as David Benevidez doing David Morrell. In this case, Benevidez was forced to close the show because he was dropped because he was exhausted. But Morrell, with a certain punishment, decided to leave it all in the ring. In these cases, the fans, but also the fighters win. Fans want to see Morrell again despite the loss.
Roach was content to leave it a draw. Therefore, we must refuse to cry for Roach, because he decided that a win against Tank twelve rounds. Tank Davis said just as much and said that Roaches’ father danced and the draw celebrates as if they won. We recently saw Edgar Berlanga doing the same, with the distance with Canelo Alvarez. Films are made about boxers celebrating because they have the distance with legends like Ali (the base for Rocky) and Sugar Ray Leonard (the basis for Marky Walburg’s ‘The Fighter’).
But this is exactly when the truth needs to be spoken. At the point, on the bottom map, former champion Julian Williams made his brains beat by a young and hungry fighter tellez. It came to me and the announcer Joe Goosen that Williams was quiet and contented to be beaten and simply survived, and I got it. What upset me was that the man I considered a little fraud, his coach, ‘Breadman’ Edward, was among the hardcore box fans. He was always asked how things were going with a bloody and battered Williams.
Bread man told his fighter it was near. OK, I get it, for example, a game with kids playing where the score doesn’t matter. But during a boxing match it was completely unpleasant and dangerous. Williams beat a life -changing, and his friend lied to him. If Edwards were honest, he could have allowed to save some brain cells and leave gracefully. Williams should also have realized the score. Which brings me back to Roach and has none other than himself to blame.
Davis’s two-man corner was also in disarray, because his corner told him he was ahead and the rounds were wrong. A wilted Davis was led by incompetent men who cost him what he said would have been a game -changing advice. Something honest, good corners is to tell their fighter that the fight is near, or worse that they may lose and close the show. Heck, we even saw his excellence lose it and yell at the Hamzah Sheeraz team that he lost with two points against Carlos Adames, which according to the fans were very suspicious.
Nevertheless, this is what is needed in big battles. Is it risky advice, and would it be endangered that could possibly be a razor-thin win? Yes, but that is the honest answer, and the fighter is forced to decide. Play it safely and cry and cry if you lose it all in the ring and make it possible, but at least you can assure you that you have the victory and that everyone has no doubt. These things are forever. Our greatest memories are of trainers who have the fork-in-the-road with their husband. It is seen when Mickey says to Rocky, “You blow it, kid !!!”
Roach, you blew it, kid. Landing zero blows at the end of a round is no way to beat the A-List star. And to fire someone’s fire that is not willing to tell the truth of the matter. Your legacy depends on it, and more importantly, your health depends on it.
Last updated on 03/26/2025
