Comments Thread For: Gervonta Davis: Lomachenko Faced Smaller Guys More Than Once

[The Big Dunn]

While you're absolutely right that Tank's statement is factually correct I think that what's drawing criticism is less that it reflects negatively on Lomachenko than that Tank appears to be drawing a parallel in order to justify his replacement opponent. Naturally this is what he has to do... it's rare to hear a fighter or promoter say of a replacement "well, he honestly ain't shet, but it the best we could do a short notice", but it not unreasonable for fans to throw a lil shade Tanks way for a rather disingenuous attempt to suggest that his and Loma's respective fights against smaller opponents were in some way comparable.

Myself? Meh. I ain't faulting Tank or even particularly his management... this shit happens and it's rare for a replacement opponent to be a Korobov or whatever, but it'd be silly to suggest this is anything other than a rather clumsy attempt by Tank to justify a pretty damn poor fight.

Fair points and a solid post as usual.

[Nightfall]

Quit hating you fool! So what if Loma got dropped by Linares?? It's boxing! It comes with the territory...
I know you're a fuccing idiot and a hater who doesn't give any non-black fighters any props but you gotta keep it real!
Loma is not boring and he's a Top 3 P4P fighter.
I like Davis and I think it would be a great fight between Loma and Davis.
Davis is still young and a great fighter and I hope he does fight Loma someday...

Little boy syndrome must be taking a toll racist maggot. And Loma is still boring.

[Jsmooth9876]

Lol at the people saying Davis is avoiding 135 because of Lomachenko. He could easily go to 135 and avoid him. Same way he's avoiding any real fight at 130 now.

[Ajvar]

So Davis forced Loma to fight Marriaga?

It might be overstretching but there is still more truth in it than in "Mares' fault Davis now fights Ruiz".

[Ake-Dawg]

It might be overstretching but there is still more truth in it than in "Mares' fault Davis now fights Ruiz".

There is no truth in either! Not sure why folks seem intent on trying to make everything a comparison where someone comes out as a winner.

Zero need to try. Loma chose Marriaga...Davis accepted the fight with Mares and chose Ruiz. They will have both fought guys coming up a division after this weekend. End of story.

Davis was wasn't even knocking Loma...he was just saying "why is this such a big deal for me when others do it".

[Shadoww702]

How did he got down in weight when he turned pro? Olympic boxing lightweight is 132 same day weigh-ins. A lot of guys "move down" when they turn pro. In pro boxing the weigh-in is the day of the fight and the lightweight division is 135 lbs. That's a huge difference you either haven't learned about or refused to acknowledge for an agenda. You also forget that he was really a featherweight (olympics 125 same day weigh-in) that simply moved to 132 in London for the challenge since he'd already won 125. Either forgot or didn't know and/or refused to acknowledge for agenda driven purposes. Kind of like how Mikey is now at 147. Doesn't make him a 147 fighter.

You cry about all that (which can be factually taken apart) then say "legit lost to Salido", when you either know and forgot or didn't watch it and didn't know that Salido didn't attempt to make weight and refused to step on the scale the next day and threw nothing but low blows espacing with a highly debatable split decision in his 2nd pro fight. That's significant because we hear from folks like you that the amateurs don't mean **** either.

Also, LOL at Mikey having "by far the best resume in boxing". Crawford gets a lot of crap but his resume is far superior. I'm not even sure Mikey has faced a top 50 p4p guy either. At least Loma has Walters (who was 130 before him), Rigo, Linares who were at least all in the top 10-15 vicinity and Russell who's clearly proven to be an excellent boxer and he's supposed to be a crap fighter with a terrible resume. I'm willing to harbor a guess you were proven wrong on at least two of those fights like many here. Funny the folks that were most adamant he'd lose said fights are the one's now most adamant that the wins were awful and meant nothing and attached a bunch of excuses to them later.

You had Linares P4P top 15??? WTHell are you smoking??? That sht must be laced.

Dudes been KO'd by BUMS in round 1
KO by a guy Broner walked through
Ko'd again round 2
And ANOTHER round 1 by a dude who was 2-3 his last 5 fights.

Garcia won EVERY round and dropped a YOUNGER Salido like a dozen times also.

[Shadoww702]

In terms of experience and knowledge, yes, he was but in terms of career trajectory and size, no. I felt Mares was being fed to him. I've seen Mares out and about a few times (in the Downey area) and he's a very small featherweight. Santa Cruz is quite a lot bigger than him and Leo isn't a big featherweight either. The last time Mares fought a big hitter he got iced in a round, now fighters get caught cold it happens but everything factored in I just viewed it as the mismatch it was and I had no interest. Being that I like Mares I am glad it didn't happen.

Ive never seen Mares in person or Tank so I guess I dont really know how big of a difference in size they are. Between Mares and Garia maybe its a PBC thing? Because both are taking some BIG risks. At least before Mares had dropout

[Noelanthony]

😂🤣 Yeah Big Dunny exposed that fool for the idiot he is but he really has no shame...
He's still on here posting ****** shet as usual....
He just doesn't get it....

Do you have that post? I Was looking for it . I can’t remember the thread. I don’t think it was even a Canelo thread. That Dunny guy killed him

[Ajvar]

There is no truth in either! Not sure why folks seem intent on trying to make everything a comparison where someone comes out as a winner.

Zero need to try. Loma chose Marriaga...Davis accepted the fight with Mares and chose Ruiz. They will have both fought guys coming up a division after this weekend. End of story.

Nope. Story contains the fact that Loma chose a fight inbetween 2 other fights of that year while Davis' last year contained one fight 10 month ago... against another newcomer from lower weight... and after year and a half layout... after a loss... to the same Abner fking Mares!
Now THAT is some HBO-kind of drama story, not some shallow procedrual you are trying to sell.

[daggum]

There is no truth in either! Not sure why folks seem intent on trying to make everything a comparison where someone comes out as a winner.

Zero need to try. Loma chose Marriaga...Davis accepted the fight with Mares and chose Ruiz. They will have both fought guys coming up a division after this weekend. End of story.

Davis was wasn't even knocking Loma...he was just saying "why is this such a big deal for me when others do it".

because others fight top guys and he doesnt. its a big deal when its the only thing you do. and others dont fight small guys coming off losses for titles while avoiding the real champ. now tank is super champ for beating cuellar without ever fighting machado? hes a joke