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Gevonta Davis vs Lamont Roach-Wyniki and report after the fight
Gervonta Davis kept his featherlight WBA title, but on Saturday Lamont Roach in Brooklyn maintained the stunning decision of the majority.
Davis was lucky that he left the flawless after he temporarily took his knees in the ninth round, but judge Steve Willis did not grant Roach to knocking down, the moment that turned out to be crucial. Two judges shot him 114-114 per item, and the other in 115-113 in favor of “Tank” to announce the competition with an impasse.
Roach, the prevailing world champion of Super Feather WBA, who fought with Davis in amateurs, was a lot of feeble fighting, but he seemed foreign to the first two rounds, with a “tank”, notoriously tardy starting, implementing a cautious approach.
The 30-year-old found his rhythm in the third round, connecting to the opponent’s body.
Davis, who detained Frank Martin in the eighth round in June last year, built a halfway advantage, raising his work and the accuracy of the impact, although Roach remained competitive throughout the round, willing to trade his pocket despite the combinations that landed on the head and body.
“Reaper” attracted the attention of the tubular Baltimore with a demanding right hand in seventh place and stumbled for a moment in the eight round another powerful right hand.
Roach was prepared for further trade with “Tank”, and after sending another right in the ninth Davis voluntarily knee, he ran towards the corner and wiped his head with a towel by his coach Calvin Ford.
Judge Steve Willis did not admit Roach from Breaking, and Davis took the round, landing a few cruel combinations, although the chin of Roach became mighty.
The man from Washington ended the fight strongly, making his rival miss and make him pay him with exact meters, and the fight went to the results cards.
Judge Eric Marlinski granted Davis a fight 115-113, but was lifted by two results 114-114 by Glenn Feldman and Steve Weisfeld, respectively to make her most of the draw.
Davis admitted that he would be open to the rematch.
“I made him competitive,” he said after the fight.
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“But certainly Lamont is a great warrior.
“He has skills, has a power to hit.
“Shout with Lamont Roach and his whole team.
“I hope it will definitely be back. Let’s go back to Up-to-date York. “
Roach cut off a naturally depressed figure after the follow -up, but he agreed with the “tank” that he would be willing to have a rematch.
“I am a bit disappointed with this decision,” explained the 29-year-old after the fight.
“I definitely thought I won, but we can come back.
“Gervont is a great warrior.”
Russell Dethrones Valenzuela to get the WBA crown
Gary Antuanne Russell made an excellent show to tear the super featherlight WBA title from Jose “Rayo” Valenzuela.
Russell (18-1, 17 KO) dominated the opening round, at its better speed, skills and volume, overwhelming Valenzuela (14-3, 9 KO).
28-year-old Southpaw lacked a clear winner with two results 119-109 and one at 120-108, providing him with his first world championship title.
Valenzuela lost the title in his first defense, winning the belts only in August, when he defeated Isaac Cruz.
Russell could continue the start of the rematch and union with the WBC champion, Alberto Puello, who defeated him in June last year, and was also successful on the card.
Puello tells Martin to keep the title of WBC
Alberto Puello made a successful first defense of his super featherlight title of the world WBC, making a divided decision about victory over Sandor Martin.
Puello (24-0, 10 KO) was raised from short-lived titles to the full master in June and it was a strictly fighting battle with Martin (42-4, 15 KO)
The Dominican Republic won the results of 115-113 and 116-112, and one judge ruled him 115-113 in favor of Martin.
Tellez sees Williams
Yoenis Tellez opened part of the Pay-Per-View card, overcoming the former world champion, Julian Williams (29-5-1, 17 Kos) by a unanimous decision.
Tellez (10-0, 7 KO) dominated the competition, which was reflected by the results cards 119-109, 117-111 and 118-110.
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Other card
The unified super-welded master was a unified champion, Jarrett Hurd announced a pension in the ring after losing by a divided decision against Johan Gonzalez (36-4, 36 KO).
Elsewhere, the Italian super halfwashed, Cristian Cangelosi (10-0, 5 KO) remained invincible with the unanimous victory of the decision on Jarrod Tennant (9-4, 4 Kos) and Dwyke Flemmings Jr (10-0, 9 KO) also scored points in their 154LLB with Florrent Davis (10-3, 5 Kos).
Vallerly weight perspective, David Whitmire (9-0, 6 KO) remained perfect, with 19-year-old Angel Munoz (7-1, 5 KO).
Super Lightweight Perspekt, Deric Davis (6-0, 6 KO) won his sixth win in a row, abandoning Jamal Johnson (2-1, 1 KO) before he ensured victory in the first round.
Tony Yoka has broken his silence on Lawrence Okolie’s failed test that canceled their scheduled heavyweight fight.
On Saturday in Paris, Yoka was scheduled to face Okolie in a fierce heavyweight fight.
But on Tuesday, the Briton failed a VADA test, reportedly for GHRP 2 and its metabolite M8, a synthetic substance that stimulates the body to release human growth hormone.
Promoter Frank Warren tried to find a slow replacement, but later canceled the entire show.
Yoka (33) admits that he was bitterly disappointed with the situation.
“I was disappointed because I wanted to fight,” said the 33-year-old talkSPORT.
“Of course I was ready.
“It’s not like it happened a few months before, it was three, four days before the fight.
“It was a great opportunity.
“It would have put me in a really good position, so it really worried me.
“What was more disappointing to me was that they just canceled the entire show, but I understand it’s a business.”
The Frenchman says he won’t wait too long and has been told he will either fight on the card Fabio Wardley vs. Daniel Dubois May 9 in Manchester or on the bill Dave Allen vs Filip Hrgovic on May 16 in Doncaster.
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Okolie, the WBC’s number one contender for Oleksandr Usyk’s title, promised in a statement to clear his name.
“Before anyone starts imagining the worst, after last year’s bicep injury, I suffered an elbow injury on the same shoulder during this camp.
“I underwent treatment and now we are here.
“I hope common sense will prevail.
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“I will of course cooperate fully with all relevant authorities and I am confident that any investigation will clear my name.
“I will not be making any further comments at this time.
“Thank you for all your support and see you soon.”
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David Benavidez is already looking to the future ahead of next week’s showdown with Zurdo Ramirez.
Benavidez challenges Zurdo for his unified WBO and WBA cruiserweight world titles next Saturday at the T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas, live on DAZN pay-per-view.
“The Mexican Monster” is moving up from lightweight heavyweight, where he holds the WBC crown, in a bid to become a three-division world champion.
An undisputed 175-pound title fight with Dmitry Bivol has so far eluded the undefeated 29-year-old, but he insists he will return to the weight class after the Ramirez fight in an attempt to lure Bivol to fight him.
“My plan wasn’t just to abandon the lightweight heavyweight division,” Benavidez said Ariel Helwani show.
“My plan was this [to] come up, win two titles, come back and make this fight with me and Bivol even bigger.
“My dream is to become unified champion.
“It would be wise for me to go back downstairs.”
Bivol, the holder of the remaining IBF, WBA and WBO belts, will defend his IBF title against mandatory challenger Michael Eifert on May 30 in Russia.
The 35-year-old won the undisputed crown, among others revenge victory over Artur Beterbiev in his last appearance last February.
The Russian gave up the WBC belt, which Benavidez currently holds, in pursuit of a third meeting with Beterbiev, which ultimately did not take place.
Benavidez, who stopped Anthony Yarde in Riyad in November, is also hoping to fight former undisputed lightweight heavyweight champion Beterbiev, who hasn’t fought since his only professional loss to Bivol.
“After this fight [against Bivol] when I win the titles,” he added.
“I’m going to fight Beterbiev.
“I’m probably most excited about Beterbiev.
“These are two monsters heading on a collision course.
“Beterbiev was a bogeyman for a long, long, long time.
“Being the monster I am, I have to go in there and get rid of the bogeyman.”
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Ryan Garcia insists he was not given a contract to fight Conor Benn, despite the Briton insisting he signed a contract for the fight.
Garcia and Benn are reportedly in talks for a welterweight world title clash in Las Vegas in August.
Benn is the number one contender for the American’s WBC crown, which he won by unanimous decision over Mario Barrios in February.
On Wednesday, Benn publicly called on his rival to sign the end of the deal.
“Sign the contract @RyanGarcia,” the 29-year-old wrote X.
“King Ry” sharply criticized “The Destroyer”, claiming that he was not given a contract to sign.
The 27-year-old wrote further X: “If I actually had a contract, Conor, I would sign it as soon as one of these hands touches your jaw on fight night.”
Benn has not broken the 147-pound limit since 2022, although he has signaled his intention to return to welterweight, and his last fight was at 150 pounds.
The player from Ilford said goodbye to former two-time world champion, Regis Prograis unanimous decision at Tottenham Hotspur Stadium earlier this month.
Benn fought at middleweight in his two fights, then fought Prograis in two hard-fought matches against Chris Eubank Jr.
Prior to his victory over Porgrais, the 29-year-old controversially left former promotional team Matchroom to join Zuffa Boxing on a one-fight deal reportedly worth $15 million.
Benn resigned last week from the company formed by UFC president Dana White as part of a five-fight contract.
“I just signed a fresh multi-fight contract, which I am very joyful with,” he said.
“Our visions are consistent.
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If I actually had a contract, Conor, I would sign it as soon as one of those hands touched your jaw on fight night.
— RYAN GARCIA (@RyanGarcia) April 22, 2026
“Our goal remains the same, which is to win the world title, but more importantly, to give people the fight they want.
“Give people mega fights.”
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