Comments Thread For: Fighting Words: Gervonta Davis-Lamont Roach isn't ideal, but neither are the circumstances

[smith3536]

There's a reason Tank and Canelo don't participate in events with Turki

[Hands of Stone]

Who is the best, the guy Tank cant beat? Ive been on boxing 50 yrs I know when Im looking at a real fighter no matter who they fight, I wish he would fight the top 3 guys I hate how promoters nursemaid great fighters effectively stifling their careers, Tank is a racehorse they need to let the reins go for crying out loud.

We don't know who Tank can't beat because he won't fight them. For one he could try fighting Shakur, Teofimo, Valenzuela, Barcynck, am sure one of them is available and more palatable than a Roach. We saw the same thing when he was with Mayweather and the trend continues with PBC and the only common denominator here is Tank and his coach. Even if promoters wants to make a great fight, if said named/popular fighter isn't interested, it won't happen. The fighter has to want it and it's clear as day he doesn't want that smoke so Tank is squarely to blame here. This PPV just need to be boycotted and tank massively to send a message from the fans.

[tokon]

Fighters should try to stay active and champs allowed to take potentially "easier" fights. But this fight isn't a ppv level fight

[davef]

I like Tanks skills and rate him as a fighter but its obvious he's just a show pony. They just match him with run of the mill B+ fighters and sell off the fact he might knock them tf out. Its just a cheap version of the young Iron Mike when he was steam rolling cab drivers as a kid because it didn't matter who he was fighting it was about the violent knockout they come to see.

Tank won't fight any of the best until PBC consider him ready to cash in

[MONGOOSE66]

You can completely ignore the fact that Tank vs Loma was clearly still a superfight that countless fans wanted to see. Loma pulled out, not Tank. And many still saw this as a 50-50 fight. It would have been better late than never. Sure, Tank should have fought Loma years ago but this was still one of the best matchups in boxing - thats why every boxing fan wanted to see the fight. Loma nixed it. And after Loma's performance against Haney and Kambosos, two younger guys, Loma looked anything but old. And damn near beat the younger Haney. No one is saying Tank is not to blame for a lot, and fighting Roach is not a good move, as I said more than once, many fighters that are better than Roach to pick from.

Who wants to see Loma fight tank NOW? Except a bunch of tank CASUALS. Too late.
I wanted to see tank fight Loma 5 FKN YEARS AGO!!. You know, BEFORE Teo Fought Loma.

[richardt]

Who wants to see Loma fight tank NOW? Except a bunch of tank CASUALS. Too late.
I wanted to see tank fight Loma 5 FKN YEARS AGO!!. You know, BEFORE Teo Fought Loma.

It was STILL one of the top fights to make this year, a hell of a lot of non-casuals, true boxing fans on these boards discussed the fight for weeks. Then Loma walked.

[MONGOOSE66]

It was STILL one of the top fights to make this year, a hell of a lot of non-casuals, true boxing fans on these boards discussed the fight for weeks. Then Loma walked.

Who wants to see a “HAS BEEN” fight tank?, LAME AS FK.
I want to see tank Shakur RIGHT FKN NOW!!

[Oregonian]

He is neither a fraud or a hype job he can fight like fck and capable of beating anyone near his size in the world.

The problem is management and opponent selections, they want the easy high paying jobs, all fighters go through this same BS when they on top, the way I see Tank is he has only a handful of fights left so should fight the best opponents in the world at this stage of his career, haters are always using this stuff to hate on the fighter, I hate crap opponents as much as the next guy but its doesnt change the class of fighter that Tank is.

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Try telling Boots’ haters that and watch the reaction you get.

[Mr. David]

"Berinchyk doesn’t carry the name value or appear to have the attributes that Lomachenko and Stevenson do"

Oh, but Roach does??? GTFOH

Thank you for your feedback! Neither fight is ideal to me. But your sentiments are matched by a majority of people surveyed by Matt of Brunch Boxing (see image below).


I do know that Berinchyk was expecting to face Mark Chamberlain later in the year until Chamberlain lost to Josh Padley the other week. My belief is that Berinchyk was unavailable given that fight being in the works, and by the time Chamberlain lost, the Roach fight was already deep into negotiations.

[James Hunt]

I've written for this website since 2004, not too long after its launch. Nobody has ever told me what to write or how to write it, up to and including this article.

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