Comments Thread For: Gervonta Davis Was 'So Heavy' Between Fights, 'It Was Crazy'

[Corelone]

All that for Ruiz? Where is the pay off? Tank goes through torture and they hand him a tin cup. All his team is doing is explaining and fabricating while others are making headlines.

[hitking]

When people ask me who’s the best fighter I ever saw, I tell them James Toney. Obviously, that’s debatable. But Toney at his best was a thing of beauty.

I bring up Toney because he had well documented issues with ballooning between fights. Which I believe is the reason why his team had him fighting ten-plus times a year early in his career. And even after he became a world champion, he was fighting six, seven times a year.

That kinda activity nowadays is close to impossible because they try and make an event out of every fight. And top level fighters fight all of their fights on TV. But for a kid like Davis that doesn’t appear to be a gym rat. Maybe it wouldn’t be the worst thing in the world to schedule him a couple non-televised stay busy bouts on cards every month or so between his televised bouts. Just to keep him in some kinda fighting shape.

[hitking]

But people want to blame everybody but HIM for not being active. He is the one that becomes a FAT ASS in between fights, no wonder he is not active because of they schedule him fights...HE WON'T MAKE WEIGHT!

He’s a kid(literally) that grew up not having much. He all of a sudden has a lot of money. And by nature of what he does for a living, has a lot of free time on his hands. Everyone isn’t Bernard Hopkins, who may show up at the gym for a workout the Mon after a big fight two days earlier. Of course you’d hope Davis and any other fighter were self motivated enough to stay in decent shape between fights. But if he’s not built like that. He has a lot of people around him that are making money off him that need to earn their money by putting a plan together to maximize his potential.

[The3]

At his age he should be fighting 5 times per years

[sicko]

He’s a kid(literally) that grew up not having much. He all of a sudden has a lot of money. And by nature of what he does for a living, has a lot of free time on his hands. Everyone isn’t Bernard Hopkins, who may show up at the gym for a workout the Mon after a big fight two days earlier. Of course you’d hope Davis and any other fighter were self motivated enough to stay in decent shape between fights. But if he’s not built like that. He has a lot of people around him that are making money off him that need to earn their money by putting a plan together to maximize his potential.

You come from the Bottom you should really have a great work ethic because you know what it is like not having anything. It should be motivation to work hard so you never go back to not having anything.

Yeah, NO EXCUSES!

[hitking]

You come from the Bottom you should really have a great work ethic because you know what it is like not having anything. It should be motivation to work hard so you never go back to not having anything.

Yeah, NO EXCUSES!

Looking in the mirror and seeing a fat person should motivate a person to lose weight. But for most people, it doesn’t. They usually don’t get motivated until either a doctor tells them to lose weight or they’re gonna die. Or for vanity reasons influenced by other people’s opinions.

All fighters that reach the level of Davis have huge teams around them. They have promoters. They have managers. They have advisers. They have trainers. And others on payroll doing pretty much nothing. It sounds good to say Davis should be self motivated. But the reality is he isn’t. So any competent boxing person should be able to see that the kid needs to fight more. And if he’s not the type to stay in the gym when he doesn’t have anything scheduled, you force his hand. Even if it means putting him on non-televised cards, in non-title matches against low level competition.

[The D3vil]

His lack of discipline will be the downfall of him.

Just look at Adrien Broner. If he was motivated, he would've been able to stay at 135 longer and would be beyond "glorified gatekeeper" status.