Gervonta Davis’ ‘Hair Grease’ Excuse Draws Criticism: Was Lamont Roach Robbed?

Gervonta Davis’ hair grease excuse for why he took a knee in opposition to Lamont Roach within the ninth spherical of their battle final Saturday night time, it didn’t go over effectively with followers. They see that as some weak stuff from WBA light-weight champion Tank Davis (30-0-1, 28 KOs), who obtained away with one on this battle on the Barclays Heart in Brooklyn, New York.

The ‘Grease’ Declare

Guidelines have to be in place to forestall fighters from being allowed to weasel their manner out of knockdowns and disqualifications sooner or later by saying that they had grease of their eyes.

Davis performed the referee like a fiddle, saying he needed to wipe the grease out of his eyes when he took the knee. Out of all the justifications fighters use to elucidate away being knocked down, this one takes the cake. If it had been me working the battle because the ref, I’d have been like a baseball umpire, ‘You’re OUT.‘ I’d have disqualified Tank so quick his head would have been spinning. Taking a knee after being punched after which strolling away to your nook instantly after is DQ stuff. You possibly can’t do this junk, but he did and obtained away with it.

It’s laborious to imagine that the referee, Steve Willis, purchased it as a result of he needed to know there can be a backlash from followers. To them, he seemed both incompetent or exhibiting favoritism in direction of the ‘Face of Boxing’ within the U.S.

The Fee at ringside ought to have stated one thing to present credit score to Roach for what ought to have been a knockdown within the ninth as a result of it had an enormous bearing on the result. By the referees’ inaction, the battle wound up being a 12 spherical majority draw as a substitute of a win for Roach (25-1-2, 10 KOs).

Tank didn’t appear to really feel too responsible about being gifted his draw after the battle. He stated he’s not going to present Roach a rematch subsequent, and hinted that he could possibly be combating YouTuber Jake Paul subsequent. I don’t know the way a battle like that might even occur on account of their dimension variations. Don’t be shocked if it does and if it’s sanctioned as relying on the data of the 2.

“He’s an incredible counter-puncher, and a really excessive boxing IQ,” stated Chris Algieri to Fighthype, speaking about Lamont Roach after his 12 spherical majority draw in opposition to Gervonta Davis final Saturday night time.

“He [Roach] all the time, ‘I hit tougher than folks suppose. I hit tougher than my report says.’ He surprised Tank a number of occasions. Tank seemed just like the man with the heavier arms, however Lamont had the higher chin. So, if Tank hits him actual laborious and the man can take it, it doesn’t actually matter.”