Kenny Ellis, GERVONTA ‘Tank’ Davis’ trainer, revealed that Tank’s weight is up 139.2 pounds with 55 days to go until his WBA lightweight title defense against Lamont Roach on March 1st at the Barclays Center in Brooklyn, New York.
The lightweight division is loaded with weight bullies, boiled down welterweights who choose to fight in this weight class because they have huge advantages once they rehydrate. Tank believes in himself and doesn’t need to use this tactic to win. There is a entire like weight bullies at 135. The section requires rehydration limits.
Tank’s Discipline
With two months to go, Tank Davis (30-0, 28 KOs) only needs to lose 4.2 pounds to make the 135-lb limit for his fight against Roach (25-1-1, 10 KOs) on 1 March. This is unheard of. of in this era, with all the weight bullies fighting one to two divisions below their size.
Tank is old school and pure class, choosing to fight in the right division without sneakily trying to capitalize on the fighting of smaller guys. He would move down to featherweight at 126 or even 122 if he uses his size to destroy his smaller opposition.
Given Davis’ size, he should fight at super bantamweight. This would put him in a position to challenge the Japanese star Naoya Inouewho holds all four belts in the 122-lb weight class. Inoue couldn’t make an excuse not to fight if he fights in that division, which is where he needs to get his small size.
If Tank is already at 139.2 lbs 55 days from March 1st, he should be fighting at 122, not 135, where he would shoot Inoue. However, you can understand why Tank chooses to fight at 135 because it’s easier to make weight, and he has more names to fight. At 122, there’s only Inoue and a bunch of obscure nobodys fans in the US have never heard of.
Roach is the same size or larger than Tank. Although Roach is moving up in weight, he is the size of a tank. So, fans argument about Tank fighting a smaller guy is wrong. He and Roach are essentially the same size.
