Comments Thread For: Gervonta Davis: I Cut Off Gamboa Fight When I Tried To Watch It; That Wasn't Me

[blowblow]

that's what you get when always hang out with floyd. soon you'll realize how boring a fighter you've become.. just dance and run around the ring just to stay undefeated. following floyd's footsteps doesn't make you an ATG.

[Doubledagger]

Many fighters aren’t “themselves” as they step up in competition.

GGG wasn’t GGG when he fought Jacobs, Canelo and Derevyanchenko, the three best opponents he has faced. But his fans would have you believe that his prime was when he was beating up on Rubio, Stevens, Lemiuex, etc, considerably low level fighters than Jacobs, Canelo and Derevyanchenko.

Davis needs to take the Gamboa fight and use it to help him train harder for elite fighters, and Gamboa isn’t even elite, he’s B level at best. He can’t F off and party around, thinking he’s invincible because he is able to destroy C level fighters easily. It’s not that fighters aren’t themselves at the elite level, the opponent is the variable, the fighter is the constant. Only thing that changed in the ring is the level of the opponent. Davis needs to prevent that change from being so dramatic by training harder and taking better opponents more seriously regardless of their age.

I really dont think it was the competition. Gamboa didn’t do anything special and in fact lost basically evey round.

The only issue here was discipline.

Davis clearly didn't train much for that fight.

I mean, the guy moved up and still missed weight.

I've literally neve heard of such a thing before.

How do you move up to a new weight class and miss weight in your first fight at that weight class.

That tells me one thing. Guy didnt train whatsoever.

[The D3vil]

Sure bud. That was the issue. Very convenient.

Yes, very convenient that athletes aren't in their prime in their mid 30s and after a lot of wear & tear, just like in every sport

[-Kev-]

Yes, very convenient that athletes aren't in their prime in their mid 30s and after a lot of wear & tear, just like in every sport

GGG fans claimed he would last long because he “barely gets hit”. But come his first loss and that’s no longer the case. If the shoes fits.

[The D3vil]

GGG fans claimed he would last long because he “barely gets hit”. But come his first loss and that’s no longer the case. If the shoes fits.

He has lasted pretty long. He's 38 and only lost once & drew once in 2 fights most fans believe he won.

And you never heard me say that he'd be as good at 35 as he was at 31/32, because virtually nobody in sports is as good at 35 as they were at 31/32. It's exceedingly rare to get a Bernard Hopkins, especially a pressure fighter like GGG.

I don't think there's ever been a pressure fighter who was as great at 35 as they were in their 20s. Just ask Joe Frazier, Julio Cesar Chavez, and Henry Armstrong.

[KillaMane26]

That's what he gets taking a fight vs a guy he had no respect for.