Gervonta Davis sounding punchy

I can believe Tank actually tweeted this himself, kinda funny

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"Her scare me" that's definitely Tank.

 

I did notice in an interview he did recently he was finding it almost impossible to finish a complete sentence, like he was struggling to make himself understood.

He would star to say something then sort of give up halfway through and go off on a tangent then lose that train of thought or find it hard to get it out then he'd move on again.
However, I think that might simply be the fact he's not an especially articulate or sophisticated orator.

Not every fighter is gifted with a large vocabulary or a quick wit.

I suppose, if older footage shows him being far sharper and talkative that would be cause for concern.

I'm not a big Tank fan and don't follow him during fight build ups etc...

If he is showing signs of being cognitively impaired, then, obviously, that's a sad and worrying state of affairs for any fighter to face.

 

Tank is just dim-witted, his boxing career has nothing to do with that.

 

Not in the ring he isn't.

 

Being unable to explain yourself doesn't automatically mean someone is "dim witted".

Try and listen to Elon Musk.

He constantly stutters and pauses, and it can be a real test listening to him speak...but I don't think anyone would say he's "dim witted".

He's just not necessarily a fluid and engaging orator.

Now, to be clear, I'm not comparing Gervonta with Elon, I'm just illustrating a point.

 

Not sure. He used "should've" with apostrophe and all. I'm suspicious of if it's him.

 

My wife is a pre-school teacher at an inner city school (her choice, she feels that's where she can make the most impact). Man her stories are rough. Not just the level of developmental problems (due to poor prenatal healthcare or perhaps drug/alcohol use while pregnant), not just behavioral problems from absentee parenting, but basic kids not being taken care of problems. Kids showing up to school in the same outfit for a week, clearly having never been bathed. Kids showing up in shorts and a t-shirt in the dead of winter, or in worn-out shoes 2 sizes to small for them. Kids who flat out tell her stuff like "I have to live with my uncle. I don't like my uncle. He's mean and there's no food there. He tells me school feeds me." And sometimes, you have kids who are well taken care of with parents who actually do care, but the parents themselves are uneducated or illiterate and don't really know how to help their kids at all when it comes to education. My wife's job is half being a social worker on the downlow (kids shows up in dead of winter without warm clothes? she gives him warm clothes. kid who isn't fed at home? sneaks him seconds at lunch, fills his backpack with snacks before a weekend. etc)

A dude who comes out of that environment and makes something of himself? Hell yeah.

 

I worked tangentially to some teenagers who had arisen from those situations and it's brutal. Most of them never recover from it, turn to drugs/violence/crime and the cycle continues. It's like they never had a chance.

So I'm all for Tank and these dudes making it, just hope they don't self-destruct the way Jermall Charlo has.

 

Sadly, by the time kids like that enter the school system it's almost always too late. There's been many studies now that detail how the choices the parents make or don't make even prior to the birth of the child, set the course for that poor childs for life.

Teachers shouldn't raise other people's kids and them trying rarely has much impact as we see in the cycle of public schools in inner cities even ones that are well funded.

 

This. He's as thick as a brick.

 

It's a mess, but it's not right to just write off human beings due to circumstances of their birth beyond their control. A person who sees a 5yo kid freezing his ass off and won't give him a thrift store hoodie to keep.. shouldn't be a teacher. (my wife regularly stops by the thrift stores, buys whatever kid sized shirts/pants/sweaters are like $1, keeps them in a box in her classroom, don't think she's out there handing out designer clothing to kids)

 

For sure, on a human level I absolutely agree. I'm talking more about public policy, throwing millions of dollars at failing performing schools in the hope that just throwing money at the problem will solve it does nothing. This is a societal community issue that can only be resolved in the homes. The breakdown of the family in many communities and particularly fathers abandoning and not raising their children is what needs to be solved to get to the root. I thankfully grew up in a 2 parent home where my father was the primary disciplinarian, I can only imagine how my brother and I would have grown up if we had to be raised only by our mother.

Boys especially often get into trouble when they don't have at least a strong father figure. Fathers are important for girls as well of course.

 

We are so off topic from boxing now.. haha.. but I can agree with most of that that. My own parents were strict about different things -- I'm glad I had both, because I'd have been lacking in some areas without one of them.

I've got a story about a student along those lines. Little girl is raised by dad, mom isn't around (I think might be deceased). She (the student) keeps asking my wife to marry her father and be her mother. Kind of sad. To his credit, dad does his best -- she comes to school on time, clean, in clean clothes, and dad comes to every school/class event. My wife has a bunch of parents who she's never met, who show up to nothing, who do not respond to communications from the school.

 

Gervontae came out da womb
“sounding Punchy”