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

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  1. lobk

    lobk Original ESB Member Full Member

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    We will find out soon. The PPV numbers for this fight and the PPV numbers for Canelo's fight in two weeks. You can't call yourself the face of boxing if you are not the PPV king.
     
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  2. m.s.

    m.s. Boxing Junkie Full Member

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    My first impression of Shakur was him behaving thuggish.
     
  3. African Cobra

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

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    Like I said he could face the Haney vs Loma winner then you have no excuses and or Shakur. However if he wins these fights some will still not give him credit until he beats Deontay Wilder.
     
  4. Manfred

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    He ain't got more money than Tank.
     
  5. Manfred

    Manfred Obsessed with Boxing Full Member

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    You responding like a five year and a clown right now.
     
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  6. Manfred

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    Your goat, not mine.
     
  7. vast

    vast Obsessed with Boxing Full Member

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    Perhaps. It seems recently he’s more composed than Tank but I could be wrong.
     
  8. Manfred

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  9. CST80

    CST80 De Omnibus Dubitandum Staff Member

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    I figured you'd have no problem admitted that, since you're living in your own reality, where beating Ryan Garcia and selling 100,000 PPV's than Errol Spence Jr, who no one cares about, makes you the face of boxing, because Stank says he is.:lol:
     
  10. Manfred

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    I am sure that you were watching some of the buildup to this fight and that's how it was built up. Tank is just echoing what they were already saying. Don't hate the player, hate the game.
     
  11. CST80

    CST80 De Omnibus Dubitandum Staff Member

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    No, I hate the player and the game. Quite frankly it's impossible not to. He's that despicable.
     
  12. Manfred

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    I had you pegged for a connoisseur of the boxing game but you sounding like a disgruntled fan. What's up with that,
     
  13. Serge

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    Olu, when Twink became a two-weight champion by beating a shot 38 y/o Gamboa for the WBA 135 regular strap when Loma was the WBA, IBF and WBO 135 champion

    And when he became a three-weight champion Josh by beating Barrios for the 140 WBA regular belt Taylor was the undisputed 140 WBA, WBC, IBF, & WBO champion

    He could've fought a prime or closer to prime Loma anytime in the last six or so years (sans when Loma was helping out in the war effort in Ukraine) but he ducked him like crazy and openly admitted he was waiting for Loma to get old before he would go anywhere near him

    Loma took on Twink's best win in over a decade just seven months after coming off a career-threatening shoulder injury and surgery to repair it and he wasn't near 100%. And Pedraza weighed a lot more than him and had a 5'' reach advantage on him. No one does that.

    Andre Ward fought Edwin Rodriguez for his first fight back 10 months after shoulder surgery

    Jarred Hurd fought domestic level Jason Welborn for his first fight back after shoulder surgery. He came back even earlier than Loma at six months but he was fighting someone who lost to a journeyman with 96 losses a few years earlier

    Listen to what Ward says here. It takes 12 months to recover fully from that kind of surgery

    The only other fighter who did something similar was your boy Groves who fought Callum Smith seven months after shoulder surgery and he was basically forced into doing so because it was the Super Six final and he didn't want to miss out on that big payday after booking his place in it by winning the two earlier stages of the tournament. He wasn't fit to fight and he never fought again and his shoulder was still causing him problems long after that. Same goes for Loma who had to undergo another operation on his injured shoulder two years after the first surgery

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    Loma jumped into a unification match up with a much bigger two-weight world champion for his first fight back seven months after shoulder surgery who is still to this day Twink's best win and the only legit prime world champion he's fought who was a champion at the weight he fought them at but Twink fans hate Loma with a vengeance and call him a hype job and trash his resume when it urinates all over Twink's.
     
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  14. African Cobra

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

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    Tank is my boy, you and I know that but I am pretty sure I have never called Loma a hype job because he is not nor for that matter is Tank. My only view is that he is not unbeatable as proven by the Teofimo Lopez fight.
     
  15. Serge

    Serge Ginger Dracula Staff Member

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    I'm not accusing you of doing so even though you pick him to lose so often.

    No one is unbeatable. Floyd lost to JCR in a lot of people's eyes and would not have got the decision in Mexico or against Maidana in Argentina.

    Many had Twink losing to Isaac Cruz in his own country with a home ref and three home judges

    Loma fought Teofimo in the US with a home ref and three home judges, Olu. But when Haney went to Australia his fans kicked up a big stink about how unfair it would be if the officials were from Australia and they ended up being from neutral countries for both fights. Haney never would've gone over there if they were Australian.

    The history of boxing would look very different if the home fighter had to fight on the road all the time or had a home ref and three home judges all the time which is often the case even for world title fights over in the US but doesn't happen anywhere else in the world.

    If Loma just has a fair ref against Salido he 100% wins the fight

    And like I explained to you yesterday, Loma didn't turn pro until he was 25.5 y/o and had he done so his teens like so many others he's compared to he would've been competing in lower weight classes and worked his way up through the divisions. 135 is his third weight class since he was 25, had he turned pro in his teens he would've been at least a six or seven weight champion and people would understand that he's completely maxed out and tiny at 135 and shouldn't be up at that weight. The 126/130 Loma was incredible.

    Twink is categorically not a hype job. He's the real deal and I've never denied his talent. But fact is he's been ducking and avoiding the best, especially Loma.
     
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