There’s a rampaging ‘Tank’ searching for a kill. And from what it appears, it has a target in the crosshairs. It didn’t take much to fire the first parting shot. Professionally, the year had been fantastic for Gervonta Davis. After a successful title defense in January, the Baltimorean boxer scored one of the most decisive victories of recent times against Ryan Garcia in April. However, it is on the personal front that he has had to suffer a few setbacks.

Gervonta Davis had a year that was filled with ups and downs. In his highly anticipated match-up against another boxing sensation Ryan Garcia, Davis achieved a sound victory that solidified his position at the top of the lightweight division. His record of 29-0, out of which he won 27 through K.O. is a testament to the strength he holds. There were even talks of him potentially facing off against Devin Haney though the fight couldn’t materialize as ‘The Dream’ went up in weight to face Regis Prograis.

However, fate had something drastic in store for Davis as the boxer found himself in trouble with the law. He pleaded guilty to four counts of hit-and-run after being involved in a car crash. Moreover, he was even sentenced to house arrest for 90 days. However, after he violated the terms of his house arrest, he was sent to serve the rest of his sentence in prison. Here’s what he had to say after the eventful year.

Gervonta Davis’ journey from a tough Baltimore neighborhood to a successful boxing career is a testament to his resilience and determination. Davis, grew up in a world where drug abuse and gun violence were the norm. At just 5 years old, he and his two brothers were placed in foster care, away from their troubled mother. Despite these early hardships, Davis found solace in the gym, where he discovered his passion for boxing. Recently, he made a post on social media that managed to touch the hearts of all his fans. In the Twitter post he wrote, “Came from nothing but that’s not how the world see me…”.

Davis pointed out all the struggles he went through before reaching the pinnacle of success where he is right now. From his troubled and hard childhood, which still to this day has left a mark on him, he managed to rise up as he still remains the undefeated champion in boxing. His journey is undoubtedly inspiring for all to see.

Davis vs Isaac Cruz potential rematch could headline on Amazon Prime

A highly-anticipated rematch between American boxer Gervonta “Tank” Davis and Mexican fighter Isaac Cruz could possibly be a headline event for the official launch of PBC on AMAZON in early 2024. The exact date and location for this clash of titans are yet to be disclosed, so the fans will have to be on the lookout for that announcement.

Their first encounter saw Davis emerge victorious, albeit after going the full twelve rounds, ending Cruz’s impressive 16-fight knockout streak. Isaac Cruz boasts a solid record of 25 wins and 2 losses and one draw in 28 total fights, with 17 wins coming by way of knockout. The 2021 fight between these two was intense, and Cruz, also known as the “Pitbull,” displayed remarkable resilience, pushing Davis to his limits.

Gervonta ‘Tank’ Davis is not messing around with crossover bouts.

The undefeated puncher had a stellar start to the year with a victory over Ryan Garcia, but a prison stint halted his momentum.

Following the official press conference announcing Devin Haney’s upcoming fight against Regis Prograis, Matchroom promoter Eddie Hearn talks to reporters about his thoughts on Haney and how he would compare him to his contemporaries like Gervonta ‘Tank’ Davis and Shakur Stevenson. Here’s some of what Hearn had to say below.

Hearn on who’s best between Tank, Haney, and Stevenson

“I’m a big fan of all of ‘em. I think Gervonta Davis is a beast, I think he’s very exciting. I think Shakur has tremendous fundamentals. I think if you’re looking at wins, then it’s definitely between Devin Haney and Tank. If you’re talking about ability, I mean they’re all unbelievably talented and you have to throw Shakur in that mix.

“But Shakur hasn’t beaten anyone yet of massive note. I know the win against Valdez was a big win at super feather. But at lightweight he hasn’t beaten anybody yet, and that’s not his fault. I do believe he’ll go on to be a great but right now if you look at the resumes…you have to say Devin but Tank has got a great resume as well.

“I don’t think it’s really a comparison. I think if Devin beats Prograis, I think then you’re talking about another level of moving up weight classes, beating the top at 140 or arguably the top guy at 140, and a guy that has power as well.

“I think if you look at Kambosos and you look at Lomachenko, neither guy has destructive power like Regis Prograis does. I think that’s what makes this fight really intriguing.”

Hearn on what he saw in Haney when he signed him to Matchroom

“Just saw a bit of a superstar, really. I like the smile. He’s a very polite, respectful man. Bill’s raised him very well. I mean Bill has his ups and downs but you can’t question the job Bill’s done with Devin. I mean, it’s been unbelievable.

“And what I like about Bill as well, it’s not a total control thing. Like, he’s willing to bring people in, he’s willing to take advice. But what I saw in Devin in a guy who’s completely committed to his craft and as a promoter I like working with people like that because you know you’re going to get the most out of what you’ve got.

“So we’ll do the best we can do, you do the best you can do, and God will decide the rest. And with Devin it’s like once you’ve got a talent that you know is going to work hard, I just felt like at the time he was a big acquisition for us because he was the kind of fighter that we needed.

“And it was really difficult when he had to make that decision to sign with Top Rank, because they froze us out completely. It’s a great learning curve, you know. Lou DiBella really had the keys to make that fight because he had Kambosos, he had the site deal, and he didn’t want to do it with us. That’s the reality. Devin was desperate to do it with us.

“When I started working with Devin we had a pact together that he would be my first undisputed champion in America…I will always remember he tried and tried and tried and tried to do the deal with us and DAZN, and in the end he found it difficult to tell me — and I knew what he had to do — and I said to him ‘I know you have to do it’ and he said to me ‘I’ll promise I’ll be back. I promise.’ But I said ‘you can’t turn this down.’ He would’ve had to turn down the opportunity to become undisputed to stay with me who couldn’t deliver him the undisputed fight.

“So when he went it was a bit of a kick in the cojones, but he promised me he’ll be back…and true to his word he’s back and I believe this relationship, win or lose, will continue.”

Following the official press conference announcing Devin Haney’s upcoming fight against Regis Prograis, Matchroom promoter Eddie Hearn talks to reporters about his thoughts on Haney and how he would compare him to his contemporaries like Gervonta ‘Tank’ Davis and Shakur Stevenson. Here’s some of what Hearn had to say below.

Hearn on who’s best between Tank, Haney, and Stevenson

“I’m a big fan of all of ‘em. I think Gervonta Davis is a beast, I think he’s very exciting. I think Shakur has tremendous fundamentals. I think if you’re looking at wins, then it’s definitely between Devin Haney and Tank. If you’re talking about ability, I mean they’re all unbelievably talented and you have to throw Shakur in that mix.

“But Shakur hasn’t beaten anyone yet of massive note. I know the win against Valdez was a big win at super feather. But at lightweight he hasn’t beaten anybody yet, and that’s not his fault. I do believe he’ll go on to be a great but right now if you look at the resumes…you have to say Devin but Tank has got a great resume as well.

“I don’t think it’s really a comparison. I think if Devin beats Prograis, I think then you’re talking about another level of moving up weight classes, beating the top at 140 or arguably the top guy at 140, and a guy that has power as well.

“I think if you look at Kambosos and you look at Lomachenko, neither guy has destructive power like Regis Prograis does. I think that’s what makes this fight really intriguing.”

Hearn on what he saw in Haney when he signed him to Matchroom

“Just saw a bit of a superstar, really. I like the smile. He’s a very polite, respectful man. Bill’s raised him very well. I mean Bill has his ups and downs but you can’t question the job Bill’s done with Devin. I mean, it’s been unbelievable.

“And what I like about Bill as well, it’s not a total control thing. Like, he’s willing to bring people in, he’s willing to take advice. But what I saw in Devin in a guy who’s completely committed to his craft and as a promoter I like working with people like that because you know you’re going to get the most out of what you’ve got.

“So we’ll do the best we can do, you do the best you can do, and God will decide the rest. And with Devin it’s like once you’ve got a talent that you know is going to work hard, I just felt like at the time he was a big acquisition for us because he was the kind of fighter that we needed.

“And it was really difficult when he had to make that decision to sign with Top Rank, because they froze us out completely. It’s a great learning curve, you know. Lou DiBella really had the keys to make that fight because he had Kambosos, he had the site deal, and he didn’t want to do it with us. That’s the reality. Devin was desperate to do it with us.

“When I started working with Devin we had a pact together that he would be my first undisputed champion in America…I will always remember he tried and tried and tried and tried to do the deal with us and DAZN, and in the end he found it difficult to tell me — and I knew what he had to do — and I said to him ‘I know you have to do it’ and he said to me ‘I’ll promise I’ll be back. I promise.’ But I said ‘you can’t turn this down.’ He would’ve had to turn down the opportunity to become undisputed to stay with me who couldn’t deliver him the undisputed fight.

“So when he went it was a bit of a kick in the cojones, but he promised me he’ll be back…and true to his word he’s back and I believe this relationship, win or lose, will continue.”

Eddie Hearn rates Devin Haney’s career resume ahead of former three-division world champion Gervonta ‘Tank’ Davis, who some see as the actual ‘Face of Boxing’ due to his popularity. Hearn feels that the 28-year-old Baltimore native Tank Davis (29-0, 27 KOs) doesn’t quite have as good a resume as the younger 24-year-old Haney, and it’s hard to disagree with him.

The truth is, Haney’s resume is almost as poor as Tank Davis’s, but it’s not quite as awful. It’s definitely not good, especially with his recent controversial win over Vasily Lomachenko last May, a fight in which practically the whole world saw Devin being given a gift decision.

Isaac Cruz – fringe-level fighter

Ryan Garcia – Unproven Instagram fighter

Mario Barrios – secondary WBA 140-lb champion

Leo Santa Cruz – Former 118-pounder

Jose Pedraza – old & past it

Careful Matchmaking

This is the new era of boxing in which wily promoters match their fighters against stewbums to build an unbeaten resume and then stick them on PPV to make money. It’s all about bringing in the dough. Tank’s handlers at Mayweather Promotions & PBC have been cautious with how they’ve matched him, opting for non-risky opposition that wasn’t a threat to defeating him while ignoring guys that could mar his perfect record.
The fans of Tank argue that his management are being clever by letting the big fights marginate using the Mayweather-esque formula of letting these match-ups stew for five to six years before finally making them happen. Gervonta is now a ten-year pro, fast approaching 30 years old, and he still hasn’t fought anyone of real quality. It’s become a kind of a joke, and some feel that Showtime’s decision to exit broadcasting boxing events on their network is a result of the non-competitive match-ups by Tank Davis as well as many of the other PBC fighters. There’s nothing wrong with Gervonta Davis fighting those guys if he used them as stay-busy fights because none of them are high-quality. Tank Davis should have fought these fighters:

Vasily Lomachenko

Devin Haney

Shakur Stevenson

Keyshawn Davis

Teofimo Lopez

Frank Martin

William Zepeda

Subriel Matias

Gary Antuanne Russell

Ryan Garcia, after getting knocked out in his last fight has now chosen Oscar Duarte as his next opponent. In a highly anticipated bout, two celebrated fighters, Gervonta Davis and Garcia, clashed before a packed audience at T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas. Davis’s win came from a powerful straight left hand to Garcia’s body, causing a delayed reaction and leading Garcia to take a knee.

Duarte has engaged in 28 professional bouts, completing a remarkable total of 129 rounds. His standout feature is an impressive knockout ratio of 80.77%, highlighting his skill in finishing his opponents prematurely. Typically competing in the 135-pound category, Duarte will be moving up to 140 pounds for this particular match. Oscar De La Hoya has expressed concern over such a decision by Garcia. Let us find out what the promoter said.

The knowledge that Garcia had decided to take on another knockout artist surprised De La Hoya. While Garcia recently faced a knockout, for him to take on a boxer who is known for flooring his opponents sound a little concerning. “So Ryan Garcia, his date is in next December. I was pleasantly surprised that he chose Oscar Duarte as his next opponent because getting knocked out by Tank Davis and now fighting a knockout artist is not gonna be an easy task. So, I commend him for that. I respect him for that.”

“I think it is not going to be an easy fight but he is on a mission, he wants to become world champion. He believes he will become world champion. So this is the first step towards that. I wish him all the best in training camp and yeah, let’s give the fans a good fight.” However, the ‘Golden Boy’ believes this will be another step that Garcia takes towards his dream of becoming world champion.

In an ongoing legal struggle for Oscar De La Hoya’s Golden Boy Promotions, their star boxer, Ryan Garcia, alleged a breach of his contract in June. Garcia claims that the breach of contract occurred due to a failure to uphold exclusivity with DAZN in relation to pay-per-view sales. Mediation between Garcia and Golden Boy is set to commence on October 18. This coincides with efforts to plan Garcia’s return to the ring.

The 24-year-old fighter aims to resolve alleged violations of the promotional agreement, as well as California and federal law, which he claims invalidate the contract. Garcia’s demand letter in June triggered a response from Golden Boy, leading to a lawsuit filed in the U.S. District Court of Nevada to enforce their contract with him. Despite the legal dispute, both parties are preparing for Garcia’s potential comeback bout on November 18.

Gervonta Davis is unbeaten in 29 professional fights, and it looks like he takes his sparring partners in the gym just as seriously as his opponents.

The 28-year-old from Baltimore started 2023 off strong, earning a career best victory by stopping Ryan Garcia in their all-American grudge match. Not only did ‘Tank’ prove he was levels above Garcia, but he recorded one of the most successful gates in Las Vegas history doing so.

His year went downhill from there, being sentenced to home detention and subsequently prison for a hit and run case.

Now back out and able to train, the outspoken southpaw has been quick to return to social media. Today, he shared some sparring footage in which he can be seen piecing up a taller fighter at will.

The video was originally captioned to explain that the opponent had called ‘Tank’ out – if so, he got much more than he bargained for.

‘Tank’s training partner is unidentified, and given what’s on show will likely want to keep it that way.

Following his prison stint, the undefeated lightweight is eyeing a ring return in early 2024, with the frontrunner being Isaac ‘Pitbull’ Cruz – one of only two men to take Davis the distance.

The fight in 2021 was a unanimous decision for Davis, who spoke of a hand injury in the aftermath as a reason for the full twelve rounds.

Davis, who goes by Tank, said he wants to be a star, “the whole package.” For now he is known for decisive victories in the ring and dubious decisions outside of it.

The scene was a cross between a hip-hop concert and the Met Gala as Gervonta Davis sauntered toward the boxing ring for his 2019 fight against Yuriorkis Gamboa.

Many of the 14,000 people at State Farm Arena in Atlanta were decked out in expensive fur coats and jewelry. Fans stood with their phones raised to record as Davis emerged from a tunnel, trailed by television cameras and surrounded by an entourage that included the rapper Lil Baby performing his song “Woah.”

Celebrities in attendance included the rapper Lil’ Kim and the former N.B.A. stars Julius Erving and Shaquille O’Neal, all there to see Davis, known as Tank, fight for the World Boxing Association world lightweight championship.

“Anytime that you can bring out everybody from the Migos to Dr. J to the same event, you’ve covered all the bases,” said Stephen Espinoza, the president of Showtime Sports. “You’ve covered different eras, different demographics, you’ve gotten royalty from both the sports and music genres, and that’s another thing that separates Tank.”

On May 5, he will be sentenced for running a red light in his Lamborghini in November 2020 and crashing into another vehicle, injuring its four occupants, and then leaving the scene. He pleaded guilty to four charges after a judge, citing the victims’ injuries, rejected a plea offer from prosecutors that would have allowed Davis to avoid jail time.

And on May 26, Davis will be arraigned on battery charges related to a January incident at his home in Parkland, Fla.

According to a report from the Broward County sheriff’s office, Davis struck a woman on the right side of her head with a “closed hand type slap.” The woman, who is the mother of Davis’s daughter, later posted on Instagram that there had been a heated argument but that no one was hurt. She filed an affidavit on Jan. 24 to have the charges dismissed.

The incident occurred 11 days before Davis’s most recent bout, against Héctor Luis García.

“I need to just make better decisions in the future,” Davis said in a recent interview. He added: “I want to build my team stronger and build that wall in front of me so pretty much nothing can get in between me and my goals and my future.”

Boxing has long been dominated by oversize personalities like Floyd Mayweather, Muhammad Ali, Mike Tyson and Oscar De La Hoya, who understood that selling a fight with trash talk and drama was almost as essential as winning it.

Davis is not quite there yet.

“Those were all guys without exception with huge personalities that lit up a room,” Espinoza said, “that can sit down, and they could hold court for hours with reporters.”

He continued, “And that’s not to say that Tank doesn’t light up a room, but one of the intriguing things and paradoxical things about Tank is, you know, he’s a little bit shy. And like so many things in Tank’s background, it doesn’t seem like the perfect blueprint for stardom.”

Davis has often given the impression that he would rather be anywhere other than at news conferences and in interviews; he often gives short responses or does not answer questions at all.

That attitude has seemed to shift in the run-up to Saturday’s fight, as Davis has initiated most of the verbal sparring at news conferences. He said he has become more comfortable in those situations.

“I’ve got to be more open,” Davis said. “That’s what really hurts me. I think I need to open up more and show people the other side of me.”

At 5-foot-5 and 135 pounds, Davis throws powerful punches, knocking out 26 of his 28 opponents. In a sport where popular fighters are sometimes criticized for bouts lacking excitement, Davis almost always delivers it.

After he beat García in a technical knockout, García said Davis hit him so hard that he could not see and did not know where he was. The win drew admiring tweets from the N.B.A.’s Ja Morant and Bradley Beal, and the N.F.L.’s Deebo Samuel, among others.

“He has a celebrity fan base unlike any other fighter I’ve seen in the sport,” Espinoza said, “other than potentially Floyd Mayweather.”

Still, Davis, who is the No. 3 ranked fighter at 135 pounds, arguably the most competitive division in boxing, has been criticized for handpicking easy opponents to bolster his record. “I feel as though I get the most hate,” Davis said, adding: “It don’t matter who I fight. If it’s not the person they want me to fight, they bash me, and they just look one-sided. They just keep blaming me for everything.”

But even Davis’s trainer, Calvin Ford, said he was waiting for a fighter to “bring the best out of” Davis. “Coaches that have been around us for years know that people haven’t seen all that he can do,” Ford said.

Mayweather, who was also criticized during his undefeated career for avoiding tough fights, had been a mentor to Davis.

Davis signed with Mayweather’s promotional company when he was 18, and Mayweather routinely positioned Davis as the heir to his throne, increasing the attention Davis got. But Davis and Mayweather’s relationship has become strained in the last year. Davis once wrote in a now-deleted tweet that “the love was gone” between him and Mayweather.

Davis’s fight against Rolly Romero in May 2022 was his last with Mayweather Promotions, but he said he’s “always got respect” for Mayweather. “He’s someone that helped me help out and got me where I’m at today,” Davis said.

After having a front-row seat to the end of Mayweather’s career, Davis said he learned how valuable it is to be the “whole package” as a boxer and how one’s decisions outside of the ring can translate to higher — or lower — earnings.

So Davis said he welcomed his fast-growing celebrity, even though it might not always look that way.

“I don’t want to just be a great fighter,” Davis said, “I want to be a star. And I think I’m becoming that star that I always wanted to be.”