Via Dan Ambrose: Canelo Alvarez revealed that his favorite boxer is surprisingly Gervonta ‘Tank’ Davis rather than Floyd Mayweather Jr, with whom he seems to have shaped his fight.
27-year-old Tank Davis (27-0.25 KOs) won the world championships in three weight divisions. However, he received a lot of criticism during the process because his handlers at Mayweather Promotions were cherry picking belt for the Baltimore native to shoot during his nine-year career.
Some boxing fans would argue that Canelo and Tank feathered birdcarefully curated by their promoters and shunned by talented adversaries throughout their careers.
They maneuvered the Davis tank conveniently around Vasyl Lomachenko, Teofimo Lopez, Shakur Stevenson and Devin Haney. Instead of bringing Tank in with those fighters, Mayweather Promotions paired him with this group:
- Rolando ‘Rolly’ Romero
- Leo Santa Cruz
- Yuriorkis Gamboa
- Isaac ‘Pitbull’ Cruz
- Mario Barrios
- Ricardo Nunez
- Hugo Ruiz
- Francisco Fonseca
- Jose Cuellar
- Liam Walsh
- Jose Pedraza
- Marco Antonio Macias
“I think Tank is one of my favorites. He is strong; He is intelligent, and he is very confident. He has a lot of talent,” Canelo Alvarez told Against TV Hub when asked who is his favorite boxer to watch.
Unfortunately, we don’t know how good Tank Davis is because he was very selectively confronted by Mayweather Promotions, who kept him in the house, comparing him to PBC boxers who in many the case is the old guys on their last legs.
You could argue that the way Tank Davis is matched by his promoters is the downward spiral of the sport of boxing, in which the top fighters are carefully maneuvered by clever management. their.
They keep them away from top talent and only fight them against fighters who have no chance of beating them, protect them like a mother hen with her chicks.
Tank Davis is a good fighter, but it’s hard to believe he would have four or five losses on his record now if he were compared to the best of Mayweather Promotions.
The careful execution of battles on behalf of Tank is already a double-edged swordhowever, because it not only protected him from defeat against the likes of Lomachenko, Haney and Shakur, but it also crippled his career.
By Mayweather Promotions only combined Tanks with indoor bouts against Rolly Romero, Santa Cruz, Pitbull and Gamboa, they placed an insider governor on how popular he was during his career. So instead of Tank Davis being the big star he is now, he was a moderate.
In contrast, the careful combination of Mayweather Promotion with Tank likely saved him from being exposed multiple times. It’s hard to know what would have happened if Tank had fought Lomachenko or Shakur.
Given Tank’s poor view of kt Rolly, Santa Cruz and Pitbull, it’s fair to say Lomachenko and Stevenson would have beaten him if Mayweather Promotions had picked him against those fighters.
