Lamont Roach = The Best Gervonta Davis Can Get

WBA lightweight champion Gervonta Davis will defend against Lamont Roach Jr. on December 14. Fans have been letting Tank (30-0, 28 KOs) and PBC know they’re not happy with this pick, but Roach (25-1-1, 10 KOs) is the best they can get.

Davis needed an opponent, and Roach was up to the job. The event will be shown on PBC on Amazon Prime Video PPV from the Toyota Center in Houston, Texas. Roach, 29, is the featherweight world champion and one of the best in the division.

As angry as the fans may be, there is no one more suited for Gervonta to fight than Roach. If the PBC chose Andy Cruz or Floyd Schofield as his opponent on December 14, the criticism would be as bad as their choice of Roach.

The top Lightweights were unavailable:

• Shakur Stevenson: The #1 seed, WBC champion Shakur, is out with a hand injury, and his new promoters at Matchroom plan to bring him back against William Zepeda next February. This would have been an easy fight for Tank if not for Shakur’s hand injury while training for the Joe Cordina fight.
• William Zepeda: Golden Boy fighter Zepeda will fight “Latino Night” next month against Tevin Farmer on November 16th in Riyadh.
• Denys Berincyk: The WBO champion was scheduled to defend Mark Chamberlain, but suffered a setback last month on September 21.
• Vasily Lomachenko: The IBF lightweight champion has opted out of the remaining 2024, it is unknown if he will fight again. If he does, it’s questionable whether he’ll agree to fight Tank.

Tank’s decisions come down to him whether he sits on the shelf for the rest of 2024 or stays busy with Roach’s pick. Would the fans be happy if Tank didn’t fight? He wasn’t going to let an entire year go by without a fight because he had been out of action for over a year after his fight with Ryan Garcia in 2023. Tank didn’t fight for 14 months until he finally returned with Frank Martin. June.

Roach is a good fighter and will give Tank Davis a tough fight on December 14. He is better than Frank Martin and Ryan Garcia. These guys gave Tank a run for his money in their fights before being beaten. This is not a soft throwdown fight as some boxing fans mistakenly believe.

Roach has won his last six fights since his last loss against Jamel Herring in 2019 in a 12-round unanimous decision.