Lamont Roach says there is no comparison between him and Frank Martin as it looks like he will be far superior to his compatriot, dethroning Gervonta Davis.

Davis is scheduled to defend his WBA lightweight world title against Roach in Houston on December 14 on PBC’s Prime pay-per-view, although the fight has not yet been officially announced.

Roach will move up to 135 pounds from 130 pounds, where he holds the WBA crown, and says he poses a much tougher challenge than Martin, whom “Tank” defeated in eight rounds in June.

“With all due respect, I’m not Frank Martin,” the 29-year-old said Talking about cigars.

“Frank Martin started boxing at the age of 15?

“He didn’t have the experience to play with someone as skilled and experienced as he was.

“I have the same skill level as Tank.

“I had the same experience as Tank.

“I’ve got the reflexes, I’ve got the skills, I’m damn sure I’ve got the IQ.”

“The Reaper” has faced Davis twice in amateur competition and lost by decision both times.

Washington has won six wins since taking a unanimous decision to fight Jamel Herring for the WBC super featherweight world title in 2019, securing the WBA crown via split decision Hector Luis Garcia in November 2023, whom ‘Tank’ knocked out 10 months earlier.

Davis, who hails from neighboring Baltimore, has won 28 of his 30 professional fights by knockout, but Roach says he has the strength to counter the 29-year-old’s power.

“What makes people think I’m going to end up like these guys who had no experience and no skills?” he added.

“I think I have a nice chin.

“I was hit on the chin a few times.

“Nobody ever dropped me.

“No one has ever seen me hurt in any fight.

“The power may be slightly different.”

Tyson Fury has revealed his plans to keep the same line-up for his rematch with Oleksandr Usyk, despite calls for his father to be removed from his corner.

Usyk, a Ukrainian boxer, made history by becoming the first man to defeat the “Gypsy King” in a professional match in May. The 37-year-old secured a split decision victory in Riyad, with the ninth round proving crucial as Usyk landed several powerful punches, almost knocking Fury out.

The British boxer was severely dazed and was saved by the bell, leading many to believe that the fight should have been stopped.

The two will face each other again in December in what is expected to be an invigorating night of boxing. After their first fight, Fury’s corner, including his father John, faced backlash after footage revealed they told Fury he was leading and didn’t need to look for a break.

Ultimately, only one judge agreed with this, and the other two voted in favor of Usyk. This led to numerous calls for Tyson to remove his father from the team before the rematch.

However, Tyson declared that he would not change his approach before the upcoming rematch. During a frank conversation with Paul Dempsey ahead of the release of the recent boxing game “Undisputed,” he was asked about tactical planning for his second fight with Usyk.

“Not much time,” he replied. “I know what I have to do, nothing drastic. People may say, “I want to change the coach, or I’ll blame the physical trainer, or I’ll blame the cook, or I’ll blame the coach.” the mouse next door. Same team, same everything. I know what I have to do.

“I thought I won the fight last time. I give him boxing his whole life and watching boxing his whole career, I give him rounds eight, nine and ten, and round nine is 10-8. So that’s what I’m giving it away from the fight, but of course the judges saw it a bit differently, a few of them just made me win.

Reflecting on the aftermath of their May meeting, Peter Fury, who guided his nephew to his inaugural world title triumph against Wladimir Klitschko in 2015, criticized the overabundance of guidance during the fight. “There should only be one person in the corner, there shouldn’t be three or four,” he said. “Some people are too emotional in the corner and some people give bad advice.

“I think the only person who spoke any sense at the last minute was Sugar Hill, who said put him on it. When you get into a fight, it doesn’t matter who it is, it could be a family member, but you have to give precise, clear information, and I always tell the fighter, “Are you listening, are you understanding what I just told you?”

“There were too many people, but maybe Tyson wants it, I don’t know, it’s been years since he contacted me. I don’t know what the situation is, but for me clearly the game plan was bad and only one should be speaking. How can you listen to all this? It’s getting a bit panicky and everywhere.

“I always said I couldn’t be bought in boxing. If someone is talking in the corner, I would say shut up now or leave through the back. This has happened before. I’m not there when something happens in this corner, you’re the bucket guy, wash the rubber cover, wipe his head, don’t say anything. This is their order and if they speak up when they go back to the locker room you will be fired on the spot you need to have a professional corner.”

With the rematch just around the corner, Tyson Fury admitted he has not started training camp yet. About his preparations, he said: “I haven’t started training yet. I won’t be going to camp for a while. Today I think I have 13 weeks left until my fight. So I’ll probably start training in about six weeks, I usually train for these fights for about six/seven weeks and I’ll be ready to give it my all on the night.

Dmitry Bivol has rejected a possible rematch with Canelo Alvarez ahead of his bid to become the undisputed airy heavyweight champion.

Bivol shot to fame when he secured a dominating unanimous decision victory over Canelo in May 2022 in Las Vegas to retain his WBA airy heavyweight crown.

A rematch was announced after the fight, but Alvarez opted to return to super middleweight after suffering the second defeat of his professional career and first since his loss to Floyd Mayweather Jr in 2013.

Since then, the four-time super middleweight world champion has won five times over Edgar Berlanga and defended his unified WBA, WBO and IBF super middleweight world titles.

Bivol, who will face unified WBC, WBO and IBF champion Beterbiev for the undisputed crown on October 12 in Riyad, insists he is no longer interested in fighting the Mexican, who he believes has missed his chance.

“He had a chance to do it [a] rematch,” said the 33-year-old FightHype.com.

“He didn’t take advantage of this opportunity.

“He didn’t even negotiate on this matter and now the matter is closed.

“I have my own way. He has his own path in the super middleweight division.

“I am a airy heavyweight fighter.

“Just different weights.”

Since defeating Alvarez, undefeated Russian he won three fights in a row, the last one by sixth-round TKO against Malik Zinad in June, also in Riyad.

The two were scheduled to meet on June 1, but Beterbiev withdrew knee injury.

The 39-year-old is undefeated in 20 professional fights, all of which ended by knockout, but Bivol insists he is not focusing on his opponent’s appalling knockout rate.

Bivol added: “I try not to pay too much attention to things like ‘he has incredible power, he’s a unsafe fighter.’

“I’m not trying to draw attention to [people saying] he’s already vintage.

“I just try to pay attention to what he’s doing in the ring, his skills and all that, and I try to pay attention to what my coach says.”