Liam Walsh vs Gervonta Davie

Both would have been hard fights but Liam has the skill to outbox anyone if he has to.....let's hope he gets the purse he wants and title he deserves for being loyal to FW for so long too!

 

I said in the main section RBR that when Lee Selby steps up eventually these two would have a cracking fight with their styles gelling.

Davis was a joy to watch last night. He boxes like Broner but with better movement and more output.

 

Agree completely

 

Liam will not take this fight it would be seriously bad for his health.

 

If Liam Walsh had any sense he'd avoid this match at all cost.
Davis was just immense, powerful, adapted, when Pedraza came on strong he found a way to negate that, beautiful uppercuts and hooks - he is the next big thing in boxing and at 22 with that kind of power Liam Walsh would be brutalised.

I'm not criticising Liam Walsh, I think there's some great domestic match-ups to be had against Stephen Smith (if matchroom allow it) Martin Joseph Ward, or if he wants to try world level then I'd favour him over Roman Martinez, he could beat Malcolm Klassen, Juan Manuel Lopez, Billy Dib, Juli Giner - but he'll lose against someone like Tevin Farmer.

His division is absolutely stacked for talent, and he''s not even top twenty yet, fortunately Gervonta has bigger fish to fry I suspect.

 

Yeah mate I agree

 

I think you are underrating Liam Walsh or haven't seen him recently.. He's improved a lot and certainly looks like he belongs in the top 10.

I agree that the Davis fight looks to be a very hard task. But he's the mandatory challenger I doubt he'll swerve it and I think it would be a competitive fight.

 

I had Pedraza and tbh I think he could of had a good shot of winning but he completely fought the wrong game plan. Not to take credit from Davis he's a talent and looked very good out there to snatch his first title with his level of experience and his age with that being said a boxer can beat Davis.

Liam needs to box on the outside to begin with constant movement picking his shots. At some point Davis will become disillusioned and tired as we saw in the two rounds pedraza was having success that's when Walsh needs to go inside and work the body. Take him into deep waters by then I don't see Davis having the know how of pulling back a fight late in the round.

 

Davis would stand him on his head.

 

yeah and you'll be up for Davis won't you Spencer Fearon .. not your fellow Brit.

Lomachenko would school Davis with one hand

 

Davis is a talent but in my opinion he still has shown a few issues with his stamina and I think his defense is purely his athleticism and his gunna get caught clean when he steps up in levels. If he can get a few contenders in before the Liam fight to work on his fundementals it will give him a big chance to beat Liam and becoming a top world champion.

Btw Davis has 200+ fights at state level not world level but he won a lot of golden gloves so he's one of the best America has to offer at this weight. If Liam doesn't go for this he is silly, Davis is the most inexperienced and vulnerable of the belt holders. Loma, Sosa and Corrales are more proven so if he doesn't go for Davis he might as well forget about a title shot for a long time.

 

Cheers, I really hope Liam takes this a lot of ability but like you said he hasn't done anything significant with it. He can't afford to waste more time.