Tank should have lost last night. But was his performance based on him being found out for the talent he really he is by a skilled fighter who wasn't compromised with a weight drain, or is Tank as skilled as people thought he was and simply underperformed because his heart isn't in it anymore with all his retirement talk?
He's at a stage in life where he just wants to settle down with a lovely man and have two adopted kids, nothing wrong with that.
The problem with Tank, is his market was based on his knockouts. People watch to watch an explosive knockout. He can't up his opposition level because then he doesn't score knockouts and people stop watching him. He's not gonna face Haney, Stevenson or Loma because he won't knock them out.
Hard to say, was it just a bad performance or was it that he had finally been in with someone who could take away his biggest asset, namely his counter punching and power and he couldn't adapt. If a rematch happens we'll find out but there's no guarantee we see that as Tank has been so risk adverse over the course of his career, he may simply decide to duck the rematch.
Never remotely considered Tank a talent in any kind of way. Decent little fighter with some pop and decent boxer. Shouldve lost to Pitbull who took fight on short notice and Tank was gifted a WIN. Shouldve lost to Roach who moved up in weight and Tank was gifted a DRAW. Tank avoided Lomachenko for about 8 years, ducked Teo, Haney, and Shakur, and needed a Catchweight AND Rehydration Clause to fight RyGa. Yeah, never thought much of Tank and his TBA opppsition
He's been fighting opposition that just lets him do what he wants for too long. He didn't look off his game to me in this fight. Roach just had an answer for everything he tried. He was fighting too disciplined to walk into a big counter, was willing and able to go blow for blow on the inside and was never intimidated by Tank's power. When the usual didn't work Tank was looking disheartened, likely because he hadn't really been in this situation before. nobody he's fought has been good enough to really push him both physically and skill wise. He basically gave up for the last bit of round 12, ran away hoping that Roach would walk onto something and when it became obvious that he wouldn't, he still didn't try hard to win the round. He's pretty clearly not as good as he convinced us he was by stopping C level guys (who he also still dropped plenty of rounds to), imo he has/had p4p level potential but he's wasted too much of his time fighting these guys and avoiding the elite, not fighting guys that would help him develop as a fighter. I'm expecting him to win the rematch but the fact that he needs a rematch to beat Lamont Roach at all is telling and at 30 years old how much better can he really get.
I think he has become a little civilised considering his cherry-picking. But also, Gervonta was never that elite of a boxer. He is a good fighter but he can be outboxed and frustrated - there are holes in his game.
ya leaving out that Haney's win was a robbery and Garcia wasn't drained to death and using sauce vs Haney. This is all relevant