Why don’t people call Gervonta Davis a slugger style boxer ?

[WillieWild114]

He is more defensive than most slugger boxers but he fights at a low punching rate and intends to knockout most of his opponents like them

[daggum]

slugger style fraud ducker. knocks out most of his bum and drained opponents

[Teetotaler69]

He's a face first bum who's literally losing every round of every fight and relies on his power.

He's literally lightweight deantay

[1Eriugenus]

I would say a slugger is someone like Arturo Gatti, Matthew Saad Muhammad or Earnie Shavers. They have some skills, after all they are professional boxers, but they ignore defence & concentrate purely on offence. Their view is they can take a guy out before he does it to them. They tend to be very easy prey for counterpunchers. I definitely wouldn't classify George Foreman or Rocky Marciano as sluggers. Foreman had a good jab & Marciano was much slicker, defensively, than he is given credit for. Deontay is probably the closest to a straight-up slugger in modern boxing but he has some, rudimentary, defence.

[1Eriugenus]

If you call Gervonta a slugger then, seriously, YDKFAAB.

[1Eriugenus]

My all time favourite line was during the brief period when Ricky Hatton was trained by Floyd Mayweather snr, Ricky could be considered a slugger.
RH 'I'm going to crowd him, get inside, land my left hook. To get in I'll have to get hit in the head but I don't mind that.'
FM 'you don't wanna let someone just hit you in the head? Thats your brain in there!'

[Spray_resistant]

Because he isn't and doesn't do that, he is a patient counter puncher reading patterns, baiting opponents in with feints then he strikes with the accuracy and explosive power he possesses.

Shame he is such a cherrypicker, he passes the eye test but we have to see it against the top fighters at 135 or near it.