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Tank Davis defeats Frank Martin in his eighth fight to retain his WBA lightweight belt

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Gervonta Davis catches Frank Martin with a right during their WBA 135-pound title fight at the MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas (Photo by Steve Marcus/Getty Images)

by Joseph Santoliquito |

Gervonta “Tank” Davis is a boxing savant. His mind is a computer that can smash his opponents, knowing that eventually the hammer will land once he has it figured out.

It fell to Frank “The Ghost” Martin in the eighth round before 13,249 on Saturday night at the MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas.

Gervonta Davis ends Frank Martin’s night with a shocking left (photo: Esther Lin-Premier Boxing Champions)

Davis (30-0, 28 knockouts) successfully used his clay hands and natural boxing sense, despite 421 days between fights, to defend his WBA lightweight title, stopping Martin at 1:29 of the eighth. According to judges Tim Cheatham, Steve Weisfeld and Max De Lucy, Davis was leading 67-66 at the time.

Martin (18-1, 12 KO) and Davis started slowly, with Martin trying to establish the jab and Davis sitting on his back left foot. Martin landed a left to the body and even lifted Davis as the two locked up in the final 30 seconds of the round.

Martin started the second half quickly, firing several innocent body shots at Davis. Keeping his guard high, Davis continued to move forward, following and staying in front of Martin. With 1:11 left in the round, Davis hit a counter to the body, which apparently made Martin nervous. With 20 seconds left, Martin grabbed Davis again. After two, Martin seemed to have the advantage.

As he had done many times before, it also looked as if Davis, The Ring’s No. 2 lightweight behind Vasily Lomachenko, was taking mental notes. Gradually he chiseled away at Martin, looking for faint spots.

With 1:32 left in the third quarter, Davis’ body shot dropped Martin to his right hand. Martin was the more vigorous fighter and probably could have won this round as well.

Martin, the No. 5 ranked lightweight in The Ring, vowed to try to screw it up and make it an ugly fight. His main priority was to ruin Davis’ rhythm. With about 30 seconds left in the fourth round, Davis nailed Martin to the body, causing Martin to put his hands down again.

Can anyone 135 or younger beat Gervonta “Tank” Davis? (Photo: Esther Lin-Premier Boxing Champions)

By the fifth, Davis had found his striking range. His hit Martin with a right hook and Martin hit Davis with the opposite left, causing Davis’ right cheek to swell.

Martin found success in the middle of the ring. With 1:55 left in the sixth, Martin hit Davis in the face with his left hand. Martin also made Davis miss him – and miss him blatantly. Davis put more pressure on Martin in the sixth set, landing a left to the head.

After the sixth, Calvin Ford, Davis’ coach, told him, “We need all these innings.”

With 2:30 left in the seventh set, Davis hit Martin with a left to the body and tried to match Martin’s left with a counter left uppercut. Martin’s energy level gradually decreased. Urged to “keep moving” from his corner, Martin was flat-footed and vulnerable to impact, and Davis made sure of that, catching Martin in the face with a left.

By the end, the seventh round was Davis’ best round.

With 1:47 left in turn eight, Davis trapped Martin in the corner and hit him with overhand left hands. Davis stunned Martin with a left uppercut, then followed it up with a straight left shot to the head that knocked Martin out.

Referee Harvey Dock counted to 10 at 1:29 of the eighth.

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Ryan claims a member of Mayer’s camp was responsible for the paint attack

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English boxer Sandy Ryan has accused Mikaela Mayer, her opponent in Friday night’s title fight in Fresh York, of orchestrating a pre-fight stunt in which Ryan was hit with an open can of paint as she left her hotel earlier in the evening.

Ryan (7-2-1, 3 KO) lost her WBO welterweight title to Mayer (20-2, 5 KO) by majority decision, with the judges scoring it 95-95, 97-93 and 96-94.

Preparing for the fight at Madison Square Garden was very personal for both, as Ryan worked with Mayer’s former longtime trainer Kay Koroma. Mayer broke up with Koroma when he decided to work with Ryan, which she considered a betrayal.

As Ryan was leaving the hotel on Friday and heading to the event venue, she was struck by an open can of paint belonging to an unidentified man. She said she felt something “punch” her in the stomach and then saw a man wearing a hoodie run to a car and drive away. Ryan was uninjured and continued to the site after changing clothes in his hotel room.

She and her team told ESPN they believed it was a member of Mayer’s camp, which Mayer denies.

In social media post On Saturday, Ryan said she was still “trying to come to terms” with the attack, adding that her team had obtained CCTV footage of the event and was in contact with local authorities.

Despite continuing to fight, Ryan admitted after her loss to Mayer that the incident affected her performance.

“It bothered me at first,” she said. “Going to the scene, I was shocked. And then it kind of took me out of my game plan because I just wanted to fight.

“You saw at the beginning of the fight, I was pretty good with the jab. I boxed her and then started lifting her. But then I obviously pushed too demanding.”

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“Ryan Garcia destroyed Devin Haney’s image,” says Teofimo Lopez Sr

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Teofimo Lopez’s father, Teofimo Sr., believes the reason for Devin Haney’s lawsuit is to “take advantage of what happened to him” after losing to Ryan Garcia last April in Brooklyn, Recent York. Lopez Sr. claims Ryan “damaged” Haney’s image with the beating he gave him in that fight and is trying to rebuild it.

After that fight, Ryan tested positive for the PED Ostarine and Haney’s lawsuit focuses on that. Haney is seeking punitive damages in his civil suit. If the lawsuit fails, Haney could be at risk of losing his career. If he moves up to 147 or 154 to compete with guys his size, his chances of success will be slim to none.

Ryan Garcia = Oil well

On the other hand, if Haney wins the lawsuit, he can make a lot of money and it won’t matter if his career ends. He will have enough money to retire and live in luxury as a wealthy aristocrat in Beverly Hills or Atherton, California. Ryan would be like an oil well pumping money into Haney’s bank account. Being one of them would be Haney’s dream life idle prosperous who don’t have to work.

Some fans on social media the media believes that Haney’s real goal is milky Ryan for as much money as he can because this is as good as it can be for him. With his star power, Ryan is like a cow that can be milked for years for money if he loses the lawsuit against Haney. A financial settlement of $100 million would be a huge windfall for Haney and would provide Ryan with the opportunity to work for him.

No other substantial names are willing to fight Haney after he was defeated. It is like a dying star that has exhausted its nuclear fuel and goes out with a supernova explosion.

There is no similar popular fighter in this weight class that Haney would have any chance of fighting. Gervonta Davis won’t fight Haney, and there are no stars in the 140- and 147-pound divisions.

Time will tell if the judge rules in Haney’s favor. It may just be a waste of time and money on his part. The downside to being sued by Haney Ryan (24-1, 20 KO) is the fan reaction.

If this was intended as a move to rebuild his ruined image, it has already backfired on public opinion. Maybe it doesn’t matter to Haney because if he wins the lawsuit, he’ll be so prosperous that his public image won’t be something he’ll have to worry about.

“I think Devin Haney is just playing chess and trying to put the right pieces in the right places to make the most of what happened to him and his image because Ryan Garcia destroyed his image,” Teofimo Lopez Sr. said. Down Fighting Hub TVtalking about why Devin Haney filed a lawsuit against Ryan Garcia after a devastating loss to him last April.

“Furthermore, I don’t know if it’s true, but Ryan Garcia said that you can take some salt and throw it into an Olympic-size swimming pool and that’s what it has in your body. I don’t know how true that is, but if it is. The beating started from the very beginning,” Lopez Sr. said of how Ryan dominated Haney from the first round of their fight in Brooklyn, Recent York.

It doesn’t matter that Ryan tested positive for trace amounts of Ostarine. If the judge rules in Haney’s favor, he could make a lot of money from his trial if he can prove that his future earnings have been reduced.

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Brilliant Mikaela Mayer-Sandy Ryan fight ruined by pre-fight painting attack on Ryan

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Author: Sean Crose

“I’ve never had so much pain in my arms after a fight,” Mikaela Mayer said Friday night after winning the WBO welterweight title with a high-octane victory over Sandy Ryan. Indeed, the fight was fierce. Mayer proved to be faster and more mobile early on, but as the fight progressed, she was tagged by defending champion Ryan. “It went similar to what I thought,” Mayer told ESPN’s Mark Kriegel in the ring after the judges awarded him the majority victory. “She has a lot of pedigree, just like me, but I knew I could beat her. I knew I was swift. I knew I was sharper… I felt like I had won the fight. I’m glad I made the right decision this time. ”

Before the fight, it was clear that Mayer and Ryan were not huge fans of each other. However, things took a shadowy turn before the fight when Ryan was attacked on a Up-to-date York street on her way to Madison Square Garden, where the fight was about to end. “Something broke in my stomach,” Ryan told Kriegel before the fight, “I looked down, it was a paint can, I looked up, a guy in a hood running to a car. Then they drove away.”

Ryan, who was fighting for only his second time in the United States and first time in Up-to-date York, was visibly concerned. “Nothing like this has ever happened,” she said. “Mikaela Mayer understands this. It’s definitely someone from her team. Why should it be any different? It has to be. I’m from Great Britain. Who will hit me and run away? Who knew what time I left the hotel to arrive? Who knew that someone was sitting in a hotel and saying that he would come now? They know what time I leave the facility with my team.”

With this in mind, the thirty-three-year-old remained determined. “Throw things at me,” she said, “because that’s what they’re trying to do.” For her part, Mayer condemned and denied any involvement in the incident. “I mean obviously crossing the line,” she told Kriegel before the fight. “It’s messed up, so I feel sorry for her. I’m sorry this happened to her. Of course I had nothing to do with it. I would never do something like that. This is crossing the line 100 percent.”

After the fight, Mayer expressed his desire to have a rematch with Ryan, provided the money and fan interest were adequate. The 34-year-old claimed her dream was to become the undisputed welterweight division. “You won’t see me in an effortless fight,” Mayer said. “I will fight for the biggest and best.”

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