To casual fans, is Gevonta Davis The Face of Boxing?

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  1. African Cobra

    African Cobra The Right Honourable Lord President of the Council banned Full Member

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    No I am not Chris. However I know you are fragile right now so use that thought as a warm comfort blanket if you need to. I wish you the best brother.
     
  2. CST80

    CST80 De Omnibus Dubitandum Staff Member

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    I haven't even thought about the match since last night. I move on quite quickly. Yet here you are vaingloriously clinging to a win like your life depends on it. Grow the **** up, you're not Tank's agent, he doesn't give a **** about you or seemingly anyone else. He wouldn't take a leak on you to put you out if you were on fire. Yet you spend hours a day cheerleading.
     
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  3. Murderers' Row

    Murderers' Row Boxing Addict Full Member

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    Global or American market? No one knows who he is in the UK. Amazing fighter though.
     
  4. African Cobra

    African Cobra The Right Honourable Lord President of the Council banned Full Member

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    Boo boo’s feelings are hurt. Your comments about Tank clearly show it’s still bothering. Your comments in the thread when Tank stopped him says a lot. It’s okay it will get better.
     
  5. Marciano771

    Marciano771 New Member banned Full Member

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    tyson fury is the face of ducking
     
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  6. northpaw

    northpaw Obsessed with Boxing Full Member

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    Canelo is the face of boxing.

    question 2:
    Tank (and I say this as one of his only fans on this forum) is not top 10 P4P,
     
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  7. Reppin501

    Reppin501 The People's Champ Full Member

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    Fury/Canelo are the faces of boxing.
     
  8. OldNUgly

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    I think the average American (where I live) couldn't name a single active pro boxer nowadays. None of the casuals I know pay much attention at all outside of the heavyweights. Tyson fury and Usyk are most well known, then Canelo. I have family that only follow Canelo and don't really watch the fight, it's more of an excuse to have a fiesta.

    I don't know a single casual fan who would know who Davis is.
     
  9. Serge

    Serge Ginger Dracula Staff Member

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    Olu, everything about Twink has been very carefully choreographed and manufactured from the get-go, including his popularity.

    You can't take anything his team, PBC and Showtime says about him seriously because they're highly disingenuous at the best of times because the objective has never been about being a true legacy fighter and fighting the best. It's been about making as much money as possible by duping the casuals into believing he's a five-time/three-weight world champion wildly popular legend slaying P4P superstar when in reality he's a one-weight champion who has been steadfastly and openly ducking the best since he moved up to the world level and cherrypicking C and D levels and leprechauns from lower divisions. He can sell pretty well by US standards but it's not a scratch on what a true P4P superstar like Clenelo can.

    His best win after ten years as a pro and spanning three divisions is still to this day Pedraza which is his only win against a prime legit world champion who was a champion at the weight he fought them at.

    The talent and the power is real but it's smoke & mirrors Central. Like I said, he appeals to the urban crowd which Ellerbe has specifically and is open about the fact he has marketed him heavily towards but he's got no charisma or personality, he's not remotely likeable or relatable to the masses, and he's a dwarf who looks like one of those tatt heavy hood lesbians.

    I would take their numbers with a pinch of salt. I know how they operate over there inflating ticket 'sales' by handing out thousands of comp tickets and lying about PPV numbers. AJ is a much bigger star than him outside everywhere but the US and I don't consider him close to being a global superstar or the face of boxing.
     
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  10. Antigoon

    Antigoon Well-Known Member Full Member

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    You're embarassing yourself a bit there, mate.
     
  11. African Cobra

    African Cobra The Right Honourable Lord President of the Council banned Full Member

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    The fact you have to refer to Canelo and AJ alone undermines your argument. He is now the man.
     
  12. CST80

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    I noticed that you conveniently swerved this post of mine like the bubonic plague.
    Well I have one more VERY LARGE number to add.

    Canelo vs. a virtual unknown in Bivol 520,000 Buys.
     
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  13. Cafe

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    I mean I've not kept up with boxing too much lately but I doubt it unless his popularity jumped drastically within the last year.. I do think that Davis has a very smart strategy for promoting himself though, he could be TMT big if he takes the right steps.
     
  14. Serge

    Serge Ginger Dracula Staff Member

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    No it doesn't, Olu. Both of those earn way higher purses than him and have packed out stadiums with 70,000 + and 80,000 + respectively. Team Twink boast about selling 12-19,000 tickets in arenas.
     
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  15. CST80

    CST80 De Omnibus Dubitandum Staff Member

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    Stank Davis could violently knockout all the little Munchkins in Munchkinland and slur mumble that he's the face of boxing until the goddamn cows up home, but if he doesn't have the numbers to back that **** up, it's meaningless delusional drivel.

    Reality check for all of the lemmings that are echoing this nonsense, you are aware just because an egomaniac says something, it doesn't make it true. It's an egomaniac blowing smoke up his own ass, which is a common feature of narcissists. Trust me, I know.:sisi1
     
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