Comments Thread For: Gervonta Davis Trainer: We're Following Mayweather Blueprint

[Bronx2245]

Why the fawk would Gary take that fight over Santa Cruz?

GRJ has talked about this fight in the past:

April 24, 2018:

“Of course I would entertain a fight with Gervonta Davis. We’re cool. He’s somebody that I actually watched grow up and develop as a fighter, but you have to stay in your lane. When I move up in weight, he’s got to get out of the way or he’s going to get ran over too."

https://www.ringnews24.com/2018/04/24/gary-russell-jr-i-would-entertain-a-fight-with-gervonta-davis/

February 1, 2019:

Gary Russell: I Want Santa Cruz, Then Davis vs. Ruiz Winner

"I want to finish this year with a lot of fights. Number one priority is Leo and then I could face the winner of Gervonta Davis and Hugo Ruiz. These ones would be great fights."

https://www.boxingscene.com/gary-russell-i-want-santa-cruz-then-davis-vs-ruiz-winner--135884

GRJ vs. LSC is way overdue, but since both GRJ and Tank are from Maryland, I think that fight would be bigger than a fight with LSC!

[Lemonhead_Jeff]

Mayweather didn't break all records. He only broke the PPV record. Other than that he broke no records. He was never even an undisputed champion.

Apparently, he broke the record for having the most haters
and detractors.

[Drew Bundini Br]

Don't think we will see another fighter beat damn near every champ from every country like FLOYD.

[Removed Now]

Mayweather didn't break all records. He only broke the PPV record. Other than that he broke no records. He was never even an undisputed champion.

Alot of fighters never been undisputed. But Zab Judah was.

[Premier15]

No surprise here!

I'm not surprised at all given Mayweather's penchant for fighting guys who have a name either coming off a loss, being too young or being over the hill but with a name when they fight that was the blueprint from 2005 until the end of his career which is why he keeps disrespecting Loma saying he's old and they're taking their time before they fight him!! FOH you're ducking him plain and simple!

[filup79]

I'm not surprised at all given Mayweather's penchant for fighting guys who have a name either coming off a loss, being too young or being over the hill but with a name when they fight that was the blueprint from 2005 until the end of his career which is why he keeps disrespecting Loma saying he's old and they're taking their time before they fight him!! FOH you're ducking him plain and simple!

I bet you're one of them posters who keeps saying Floyd cherry picked a 23 year old Canelo who was a unified champ at the time. Yet Floyd was past it at 36. Yet you are calling for Tank who has less than 20 fights to fight a 30 year old Loma who is in his prime and P4P. Double standards pretty much. I believe you're talking about Manny, he was the one fighting guys of losses and guys Floyd had already beat, Manny gets more credit for beating older fighters Floyd beat years before.

[Boxing_1013]

He’s not though. Pretty Boy Floyd was tearing through the 130 lb division fighting 3+ times a year beating credible guys like Hernandez, Chavez, Corrales etc.
Gervonta isn’t... he’s fighting once a year against blown up featherweights.

This guy gets it

[Larry the boss]

"Well if you look at Floyd's career we are doing the same blueprint that they did. Whatever person that the sanctioning body or the public wants us to fight is who we are going to fight if it makes sense," Davis' trainer Calvin Ford stated.


huh??? Floyd was facing p4p fighters and moving up divisions kicking ass..not getting fat between fights and missing weight loosing titles on the scale

[Boxing_1013]

I bet you're one of them posters who keeps saying Floyd cherry picked a 23 year old Canelo who was a unified champ at the time. Yet Floyd was past it at 36. Yet you are calling for Tank who has less than 20 fights to fight a 30 year old Loma who is in his prime and P4P. Double standards pretty much. I believe you're talking about Manny, he was the one fighting guys of losses and guys Floyd had already beat, Manny gets more credit for beating older fighters Floyd beat years before.

Come on man...what that guy said about Floyd in his Money May days is accurate...at the lower weights Floyd was a wrecking machine but anyone who analyzes his Money May days can see he was very selective with who he fought and WHEN he fought them. That guy had it pretty much right.

[Bronx2245]

Mayweather didn't break all records. He only broke the PPV record. Other than that he broke no records. He was never even an undisputed champion.

Here's what he was:

The 50 Greatest Welterweights of All-Time Part Five: 10-1

#09 – Floyd Mayweather (49-0)

Floyd Mayweather defeated more ranked welterweight contenders than Thomas Hearns (rankings by Ring/TBRB). He defeated more top five contenders than almost anyone outside the top ten, aside from the likes of Jackie Fields – but Fields also lost to a handful of welterweights. Mayweather was unbeaten.

Mayweather defeated more welterweight lineal champions than Barney Ross. Working by the scorecards of the judges he was, for the most part, in non-competitive fights at the weight. He made a past-prime Manny Pacquiao, his #1 contender at the weight, look like a journeyman. He defeated more #1 ranked fighters (champions or top rated contenders) than all but the most storied of fighters. He boxed only three unranked men at the weight, two of whom were soft touches (Sharmba Mitchell, his first fight at the weight, and Andre Berto) and Ricky Hatton, the light-welterweight champion of the world and universally recognized pound-for-pounder, who he knocked out.

He was one of the few men to become a two-time lineal world-welterweight champion and the only man who ever did it without losing a fight, coming out of retirement to do what Barbados Joe Walcott and Benny Leonard both failed to do.

http://tss.ib.tv/boxing/featured-articles/22132-the-50-greatest-welterweights-of-all-time-part-five-10-1