So if Tank is special why he's fighting B and C level fighters all the time?

I'd say a fair slew of B to B+ guys, but your point stands. Maintaining that high a stoppage rate at that level also isn't quite nothing IMO - but yeah, the undue hype is completely out of proportion to his actual achievements.

He's fast and powerful with a decent chin and average skill (if you really analyze and look past his flashy highlight-reel athletic gifts) both offensively and defensively. Not a once generational, 'The One's type of fighter.

 

He's also got that kind of very short, very stocky physique which is gonna leave him in the Frampton-zone by the time he turns 30/31 - namely, having to fight in a weight division where his disadvantages become truly decisive. I mean, imagine him at 147? He's not got much time left to justify the hype...

 

I thought the lsc win was pretty good. Agreed though, some cherry picking and overhyping.

a win against those previously mentioned is what he needs, tank vs progrias? Take my money!

 

I could see him in a few years losing at 147 to a Tewa Kiram type. Maybe not Kiram himself, as he'll be in his mid-30's with lots of miles on the odometer (with a style that doesn't age well of his own) by then, and he's what, a cruiserweight now, somehow? - but someone in the mold of the version that fought LMM. A tall, tough, basic but heavy handed sort.

 

Tank has limitations that his team is aware of. They will continue to be strategic going forward as far as opponent selection. Its nothing new

 

He is over hyped at the moment, but shows great potential . . . if hes able to keep his **** together.

I feel like the biggest negative impact on his career is his life outside the ring and feel like he will be his own undoing. . .

 

It's so weird that he of all people is the hand-picked scion of PBF...he couldn't be any more different stylistically. For all his own faults, Broner at least emulated Mayweather (even if he fell a light year short of matching his work ethic or ring intuition).

His 'team' is mostly yes men, with the only person in a position to effect any real change and impose their will on Gervonta to get him to leave the lazy confines of his comfort zone, would be Floyd himself - and by this point, if even Floyd has failed to identify and correct some of the glaring deficiencies in Tank's craft, then idk how much tinkering we can expect going forward.

 

Tank is just Broner 2.0 with better handlers. He’ll blow it sooner or later.

 

What B+ fighter has Tank beaten? Best is C+ and perhaps Sta. Cruz is B-.

B+ is someone like Bradley/Taylor/Mikey. A is JMM/Cotto/Mosley/GGG. A+ Is RJJ, Floyd, Pac, Chavez etc.

Get your tiers right.

 

I'd slot Bradley as an A. He did soundly outbox the professor and only lost to Pac (although he could have been stopped in the Provodnikov fight and no one would have objected).

 

Fonseca is C+; Walsh is B- (and blown-up & past-prime Ruiz is somewhere between Walsh and Fonseca); Núñez and Barrios are straight B (as is the blown-up & past-prime version of Gamboa); Pedraza, Cuellar and LSC are B+.

Don't preach to me about tiers, son. Rating fighters relative to who's active right now is a different matter than rating them historically in ATG terms (ODLH was A/A+ during his prime within his era, but is more like a high B in broader historical context). Which any fool knows, including you I think, you're just in a yapping mood and stirring the pot.

 

I think that he's definitely a talent who's taken on decent to good opponents so far. I want to be a fan who encourages continual development because I always want to see more talent and great matches. He certainly has the right team behind him to learn. It's hard to find more talent than in the Mayweather gym. Just imagine training there.