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

I did not swerve it at all. These are very respectable numbers in the modern era for PPV buys with all the illegal hacking and higher prices though not certain your figures are correct. Currently Canelo is not doing 1 Million PPV buys.

 

He's on his way to that kind of recognition if he faces the Haney/Loma winner, Shakur and maybe one of the top guys at 140 like Taylor, Matias, Prograis or Catterall.

 

Those 2 have been the money guys what we are saying is Tank is the new guy.

 

Of course he isnt. Canelo, Fury and AJ are much more well known.

 

The face of boxing simply refers to how much you can sell and how well you are known. He is nowhere near canelo's pay-per-view numbers. He's also not globally known unlike Anthony Joshua and tyson fury. However he will command very good purses. However that is not the face of boxing.

 

He is one of many Fury, Shakur, Bivol and loma. Add him in and get in line. He still lacks more qty wins but eventually he will be THE face of boxing. If the marketing team and Tank wins 5 star fights.

 

my wife who knows **** all about boxing other that I like to watch it said to me yesterday "I heard there was a fight over the weekend?"

So yes that was a big fight.

 

Even some of my friends who don’t follow boxing on the regular were asking my thoughts on the Tank fight last week.

You got to think about it like this way he’s active.
Crawford and Spence out of sight out of mind so people know Tank based on activity.

 

Tank has power, has won most of his fights by knockout. He's been marketed very well to a niche urban community. He's been protected against threats. But he does not have crossover appeal into the mainstream. The only way he crosses over is to become heel. People will pay to see him lose. People will start buying his fights. If he beats Loma people will start paying to see him lose.

 

Tank has beaten many world champions and undefeated fighters the last one on Saturday one of the so called 4 Queens. You may get him to beat up on the Haney vs Loma winner if Bob Arum does not get in the way. However there are some her who will never give Tank his due irrespective of his achievements.

 

I don't see how a guy that's tatted up to the eyebrows like him, can ever appeal to a mainstream audience. Watching interviews with him is like watching a mugshot talking. If at the same time he was a word wizard, then yeah...maybe...but he's not, now is he?

 

He doesn't have to appeal to a mainstream audience, quite the contrary. He needs to not appeal to a mainstream audience. Nobody paid to Mayweather fight, they paid to see him lose.