Gervonta Davis (30-0, 28 KOs) and Lamont Roach Jr. (25-1-1, 10 KOs) was not too long ago confirmed by Premier Boxing Champions with “Tank” set to defend his WBA light-weight title in opposition to Roach, the WBA tremendous featherweight champion, who will transfer up a division to tackle the big-punching Baltimore native in a GTD Promotions and TGB Promotions occasion. The world title struggle is ready for March 1 on the Barclays Middle in Brooklyn as the primary occasion of a PBC Pay-Per-View occasion on Prime Video. It was additionally confirmed that struggle followers might catch the motion by means of conventional cable and satellite tv for pc shops in addition to PPV.com. Following a cryptic put up from Davis, it now seems the struggle may very well be off.
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Davis is scheduled to defend his WBA title in opposition to Roach with each fighters not too long ago buying and selling daring predictions at a press convention. This is because of be the sixth title defence for Davis and regardless of some criticism in the direction of the making of this struggle, there may be intrigue with each having large followings from their native Baltimore and Washington, D.C.
This struggle has encountered points from the start with the unique struggle date of December 14 not taking place with no purpose given. On December 23, the struggle was seemingly off the desk with Davis posting by way of his Instagram tales: “The struggle is fucking cancel”
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Roach posted his response after seemingly being requested loads of questions: “The fuck ya hold asking me for? He mentioned that shit not me. I’m locked in ain’t shit modified. March 1st Brooklyn.”
With no remark from PBC and tickets nonetheless out there for the struggle, it seems the world title match-up remains to be on. Dan Rafael reported in his Combat Freaks Unite Substack that individuals concerned within the struggle informed FFU they had been uncertain why Davis made the put up.