Comments Thread For: A tie that's blind? Gervonta Davis and Lamont Roach Jnr fight to draw

[praxst]

Davis is a P***y..bitched and complained to the ref numerous times during the fight, took a knee, no knockdown counted....lost this fight. Feel bad for Roach, he did enough to win. Davis way overrated IMO.

[DeeMoney]

I had Davis by a round, but that irrelevant. The fact that the knee was not ruled a KD in insane, can't be allowed. Obviously, if it were a KD, and all else remained the same then Davis loses a MD. But you also can't make that argument, because you have to assume fighters fight differently if they know they have a KD scored against them.

Regardless, Davis looked bad. I mean he usually looks bad, but then his power just comes through whenever he decides to finally become active. This time it did not. That mixed with some things he's said recently has be thinking he's got something mental going on.

As an aside, Deontay Wilder has to be happy, as 'my ring walk costume was too heavy' has been replaced with, 'I just got my hair done, and the grease was getting in my eye' as the funniest explanation for a poor performance. Not arguing he didn't just get his hair done, but c'mon.

[liuj88]

No need to run it back cos the element of surprise is gone now and he will lose convincingly next or even get knocked out. As for Tank, dude got some weird tendencies and seem unfocused even leading up to the fight. Maybe he do need to step away especially since he aint gonna fight those other guys anyway

Roach got more comfortable with Davis' style as the fight progressed. A re-match may work in his favor.

[DeeMoney]

Gotta feel bad for Roach. If Willis would've correctly called that knockdown, then Roach is the champ by at least split decision. That should be an easy dispute.

Not so easy, Tank camp would just claim he would've fought differently if he knew he had a knockdown scored against him. Not saying that it shouldn't have been scored a knock down, just that you can't retroactively implement it.

[El_Mero]

Took a knee after a punch, turned his back and went to the corner. Nah, ref babied Wahid and let him get away with all kinds of bs....low blows, shoulder hit. Wahid the face of the (P)rotected (B)oys (C)lub

[liuj88]

Not so easy, Tank camp would just claim he would've fought differently if he knew he had a knockdown scored against him. Not saying that it shouldn't have been scored a knock down, just that you can't retroactively implement it.

And Roach's camp would just claim that he would've fought differently in reaction to Davis.

Instead of hypotheticals, the commission can work with actual fact and correct an egregious and obvious mistake.

[Ry*nS*ngalia]

I am glad to see S-O-N-G-A-L-I-A is still doing his thing. I wonder why itâs auto censored.

My man Jack. So glad to see you’re still here. You made me laugh plenty of times back in the day.

[IEsickboy]

This ref(Willis) is for the most part a good ref, but today he did horrible job. That was a clear as day knockdown & the ref even started counting then stopped. And let "Tank" continue like nothing. Tank literally got a time out in a sport where ONLY the ref could call a time out, not the fighter. And also hit low & even hit Roach with his shoulder & the ref saw it and did NOTHING.This was an example of heavy favoring the "A" side fighter big time.
The last time I saw something similar to this was Kermit Cintrón vs Sergio Martinez where Martinez got robbed twice that night. And by coincidence that fight also ended up in a draw.

Cintron got knocked out and allowed to continue. That was not a headbutt, but a short, straight left from Martinez.

[brankobugarski]

Now we all know why Tank is not fighting someone dangerous to his record like Keyshawn or Shakur.

[DeeMoney]

And Roach's camp would just claim that he would've fought differently in reaction to Davis.

Instead of hypotheticals, the commission can work with actual fact and correct an egregious and obvious mistake.

But you can't retroactively rule it a knock down after the fight is over. For as egregious as the mistake was, and it was, once the ruling is made and the fight is done you can't change a ruling from inside the fight. The argument being that the fight would have gone differently had the knockdown been scored during the fight is valid, and has to be respected.