Gervonta “Tank” Davis, one of boxing’s top young stars, moved up to lightweight and won a belt in a second weight division, dropping Yuriorkis Gamboa three times en route to a one-sided 12th-round knockout victory on Saturday night at State Farm Arena in Atlanta.
Apparently Davis was faced with a major injury and stated the following:
“I’m a warrior and I kept going, but as soon as I felt it I knew it was ruptured,” Gamboa said through an interpreter. “I couldn’t put pressure on it. I wanted to keep going. I told my corner it was a problem, but I wanted to keep going because I’m a warrior.”
Davis said he did not realize Gamboa was having a foot problem.
“I was mainly focused on catching him with clean shots,” Davis said. “I was catching him with clean shots and wasn’t hurting him, so I knew I was in for rounds tonight.”
Davis’ handlers at Mayweather Promotions and Premier Boxing Champions plan to move him onto pay-per-view at some point in 2020, hoping to build on the growing popularity he showed in 2019 as one of the Untied States’ best attractions. He finished the year having drawn 36,863 fans for his three bouts in three cities: 8,048 (near capacity) to the Dignity Health Sports Park in Carson, California, on Feb. 9; a sellout of 14,686 to Royal Farms Arena in his hometown of Baltimore on July 27; and 14,129 on Saturday night.
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