By Matt Lieberman: Gervonta Davis ought to battle the winner of the Devin Haney vs. Vasily Lomachenko contest after which Shakur Stevenson. That’s what Roy Jone Jr wish to see from WBA ‘common’ light-weight champion Gervonta (29-0, 27 KOs) in his subsequent two fights. Whether or not Tank Davis agrees to take these fights is slim.
Sadly, with Tank Davis being aligned with PBC and combating on a special community than Haney, Lomachenko, and Stevenson, there’s an opportunity that we might not see him battle any of these guys.
If non-PBC fighter Ryan Garcia weren’t so common and keen to offer Tank Davis each negotiating benefit below the solar, we wouldn’t have seen that battle in 1,000,000 years.
Haney & Lomachenko don’t have 9 million Instagram followers like Ryan did, and so they’re NOT about to agree to offer Tank Davis a twin handicap of a 136-lb catchweight + rehydration clause to weaken themselves so he feels protected sufficient to battle them.
If these fights don’t occur, Frank Martin could be a makeable match-up for Tank Davis as a result of he’s a PBC fighter battle, and I wish to see him battle the self-proclaimed new face of boxing.
“For me, an ideal battle for Tank could be the winner of Lomachenko-Devin Haney battle as a result of that’s one other battle between two fighters which are good fighters,” mentioned Roy Jones Jr on his Youtube channel.
“One with no losses [Haney], one other with two losses, however the losses he acquired aren’t like losses like he acquired destroyed or beat up unhealthy or acquired knocked out. He’s acquired official losses, and he by no means misplaced to a man that got here into the ring heavier than him,” mentioned Jones, unaware that Lomachenko was outweighed in each of his losses to Teofimo Lopez and Orlando Salido.
“That will be a really attention-grabbing battle to see him [Tank Davis] battle a type of fighters as a result of we don’t know who’s going to win that battle [Haney-Lomachenko] but, however Devin will come into the ring heavier than him, so we don’t know.
“In addition they know one another as a result of I’m certain Tank and Haney have sparred. They know one another, however him and Loma don’t. The factor with Loma is that when he was able to battle Tank again within the day, Tank wasn’t able to take that step up, but it surely didn’t occur.
“In Loma’s thoughts, he in all probability thinks he’s higher than Tank, however Tank has matured very nicely as a fighter. So I feel that will be an ideal battle too.
“I feel whoever win the Haney-Loma battle can have a giant payday with Gervonta Davis. Then after that, the winner of that battle has acquired to offer Shakur Stevenson a shot,” mentioned Roy.
