Lamont Roach is ready to bring down Gervonta Davis and take his spot as the WBA lightweight champion on Saturday night, March 1st, in their headliner at the Barclays Center in Brooklyn, New York. Tank (30-0, 28 KOs) already has one foot out the door into retirement, and he clearly has lost his motivation to keep fighting at making multi-millions from his fight against Ryan Garcia.
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Davis: Motivation Gone
Lamont (25-1-1, 10 KOs) believes he’ll be stronger moving up five lbs from 130 to 135 to challenge Tank, who has already said he plans on retiring at the end of the year. Lamont is fighting a guy that doesn’t have the hunger he once did. This is going to be interesting to watch how Davis struggles with the pace, and boxing skills of Roach.
Davis-Roach will be shown live on PBC on Prime Video PPV this Saturday. The event begins at 8:00 p.m. ET/5:00 PT.
“I’d been working hard in camp to come out victorious. You know it. It might be better than at 130,” said Lamont Roach to the media today, talking about his fight against WBA lightweight champion Gervonta Davis on Saturday night in Brooklyn. “Five extra pounds, I don’t got to lose. “I’m not stressing a knockout.”
Roach isn’t going to put himself at risk of being knocked out by going for a stoppage of Tank Davis. He knows that’s where Tank’s past opponents have gone wrong, as they tried to slug with him and wound up getting caught. All of Davis’ recent opponents have tried to KO him and paid the price for trying that.
“As I said, the entire press run and media run, I try to knock everybody and anybody out,” said Roach. “If the opportunity presents itself, I’m going to take it for sure. The IQ, skill level, just being the overall cerebral assassin in the ring,’ said Roach.
Davis would have to be really slipping to get knocked out in this fight, and I don’t see that happening. But he can definitely be outboxed by Roach and made to look bad.
The Apex Predator
“He ain’t never been in there with anybody like me. After I win, I’m going to defend them both until I feel as if I can’t make 130 anymore,” said Roach about his wanting to hold onto his WBA super featherweight title and defend both belts if he defeats Tank Davis to capture his WBA lightweight belt.
“Whooping his a**. That’s the key. Staying in control, though. That’s the key. Everybody knows that Gervonta can be a wildcard. I wasn’t thrown off. Everything went as scheduled and as planned. I kind of figured we weren’t going to fight in December anyway.
“It didn’t throw anything off. He’s a competitor. I definitely don’t see him calling the fight off unless it has to do with his health,” said Roach.
Last Updated on 02/26/2025
