Comments Thread For: Paulie Malignaggi's Picks: Gervonta Davis should aim for higher than Lamont Roach if he wants to stay on PPV

[daggum]

You just don't know the sport it's obvious. I don't like tank, or what he does, one bit. But he has talent and it's obvious.

Maybe not the amount that he gets credit for, Tonight certainly showed that... But you then just go off the reservation half ****ed and call him some sort of a fraud it's as stup id as doing that with Wilder and Ortiz.

Is he not a fraud? He just lost to a guy moving up and took a special timeout during a round because he's a special person with special privileges. You keep saying these guys are obviously talented but they are obviously just figting weak competition in order to look better. He lost to roach and had an even fight with Isaac Cruz. Maybe if he had a great resume to fall back on you could ignore those blights but he doenst and neither does wilder. Why not just judge him based on reality?

If he was just a decent fighter and marketed as such that would be fine except he's trying to pass himself off as a top guy which he is not and never has been. The error is on your part by buying into that hype. Same with Wilder. the guys who deserve hype are the guys who fight thr best not thr guys who are marketed the most

[billeau2]

Is he not a fraud? He just lost to a guy moving up and took a special timeout during a round because he's a special person with special privileges. You keep saying these guys are obviously talented but they are obviously just figting weak competition in order to look better. He lost to roach and had an even fight with Isaac Cruz. Maybe if he had a great resume to fall back on you could ignore those blights but he doenst and neither does wilder. Why not just judge him based on reality?

If he was just a decent fighter and marketed as such that would be fine except he's trying to pass himself off as a top guy which he is not and never has been. The error is on your part by buying into that hype. Same with Wilder. the guys who deserve hype are the guys who fight thr best not thr guys who are marketed the most

You just don't have a very high IQ do you? You're equating him being treated special, maybe even with a fix, with his actual ability, assuming there has to be a correlation because of his treatment.

Both can be true at the same time Daggum. The competition in tanks division is not weak he is avoiding fighting the competition that could possibly threaten him. There's a difference. Just like there is a difference between wilder and tank.

I don't disagree with you about most of what you say about tank to be honest. I'll go once the further I thought we lost that fight to cruise.

But Pitbull is actually a very talented fighter to some of us. He is young He's fighting in one of the premier divisions in the sport, he's going to lose a fight now and then! He has to learn to hone his skills He's very young I'm talking about Pitbull cruise here.

You create these categories and they are artificial just like most of the rankings from the alphabet bureaucracies. The fact is a very talented fighter can also be protected there's no contradiction in both statements being true.

If you watch Davis what he does in the ring he obviously has tremendous talent he just wastes it.

[LAchargers373]

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I don’t think he’s moving up. He needs to fight Shakur before he moves. Breadman has them as a 50/50 fight with him leaning slightly towards Shakur winning.

Tank is not looking to fight Shakur. Tank also ducked Lomachenko.

Pretty sure they tried to get loma for this fight and he refused you got it backwards lol

[Oregonian]

Pretty sure they tried to get loma for this fight and he refused you got it backwards lol

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Yes once Loma got old. Tank’s been at 135 for a few years and Loma was never mentioned. Davis 100% ducked Loma from 2017-2022 when Loma was still in his prime.
Floyd could have made that fight but never did and now suddenly Tank is ready and available to fight a 36 year old who has fought everyone.

[LAchargers373]

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Yes once Loma got old. Tank’s been at 135 for a few years and Loma was never mentioned. Davis 100% ducked Loma from 2017-2022 when Loma was still in his prime.
Floyd could have made that fight but never did and now suddenly Tank is ready and available to fight a 36 year old who has fought everyone.

Tanks record is more impressive than lomas

[BirdSong]

Tanks record is more impressive than lomas

wtfffffffff loma fought unbeated teo and haney when they were AT THEIR BEST top guys at 135 and both big guys too U TRIPPIN LOL

[LAchargers373]

wtfffffffff loma fought unbeated teo and haney when they were AT THEIR BEST top guys at 135 and both big guys too U TRIPPIN LOL

Loma lost to salido teo and haney. Haney beat loma.Tank knocked out rygar easily and we alllll saw what rygar did to haney. Loma is good but he is severely overrated

[BirdSong]

Loma lost to salido teo and haney. Haney beat loma.Tank knocked out rygar easily and we alllll saw what rygar did to haney. Loma is good but he is severely overrated

tank drained tygar back down to 136 LOL

tank is the one severely over rated loma has had a GREAT CAREER lol and took on much harder fights than tank!!!! tank would have NEVRE fought teo or haney at those times FACTS

[Slicc]

Loma lost to salido teo and haney. Haney beat loma.Tank knocked out rygar easily and we alllll saw what rygar did to haney. Loma is good but he is severely overrated

Salido cheated the entire fight, Haney arguably lost and Ryan shouldn't have taken the fight with his weight issues. Loma's not overrated, he's a natural featherweight, who's on the slide, facing world-level lightweights in their prime.

[Oregonian]

Tanks record is more impressive than lomas

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We are just going to have to agree to disagree on this one.
Loma is an ATG who can never be accused of ducking anyone.