Recent York – There is no doubt that Lamont Roach Jnr will fight on its largest, so far as a professional this Saturday.

Although the Junior Lightweight Hander WBA has been fighting for championship cards since he became a professional in 2014 at the undercard of Bernard Hopkins’s Delicate Heavywywywy win with Beibut Shumenov, the delicate never shone as radiant on Roach as in Barclays Center in Brooklyn, Recent York.

In the face of Gervont “Tank” Davis – perhaps the largest American star in boxing – Roach will probably look at him more than at any other time in his professional career. The 29-year-old from Upper Marlboro, Maryland says it’s okay.

“Since I started great fights,” said Roach, 25-1-1 (10 KO), during Wednesday’s media training at the Gleason gym in Brooklyn. “Hopkins Undercard, Canelo [Alvarez] Undercards … and the list is long. I am not alien to this and it does not affect me at all.

“The stakes are higher, but I just want demanding – that’s all. I trained in the best physical and mental form in which I can be. “

Roach will be its main first vital Pay-Per-View event against Davis, 30-0 (28 KO), one of the few Bona Fide Pay-view in today’s sport. Two boxers, whose native city is about an hour from each other, have a story from amateur ranks, in which Davis beat Roach twice in three rounds.

“I definitely have to have some return,” Roach said.

The fight will be the first time Roach, which can weigh above 130 pounds from 2017, when he won his first smaller title with Alejandro Valdeza knockout. Roach says that he feels more comfortable without having to cut an additional 5 pounds, and insinuates that as a result he will have more impact power.

While Roach certainly stands in the face of someone whom talent exceeds the talent of his previous opponents, says that Davis also fights with someone who is a different puzzle for him.

“IQ, the level of skill, being simply a generally killer of the brain in the ring,” said Roach, asked by reporters, which distinguishes him from 30 opponents, which Davis defeated.

“He was never there with someone like me.”

Roach rides in six victorious passions from a lonely defeat-uniform defeat of the decision for Jamel Herring in his first possibility of the world title, in 2019. Since then, Roach became the world champion in itself, defeating Hector Luis Garcia in June 2023.

He says that his goal is to become a champion of two divisions, defending belts in various divisions.

“It’s all for me, and becoming a champion of two divisions would be a dream come true for me.” Roach said.

Ryan Songalia is a reporter and editor of Boxingscene.com and wrote for ESPN, Recent York Daily News, Rappler, The Guardian, Vice and The Ring Magazine. He obtained a master’s degree in journalism from Craig Newmark Graduate School of Journalist and is a member of boxing Writers Association of America. You can contact him ryansongoli@gmail.com or on Twitter at the address @ryansongalia.

Willie Pep is my favorite senior -school warrior. Two hundred and twenty -nine wins compared to 11 losses and one draw, won and regained the title of a featherweight, competed in three decades, and this is my favorite, he defended his title six months after the accident accident and told him that he never boxed again.

His defense and movement were legendary. He wore the nickname “Will about ‘The Wisp” because he slipped and left the ring, stopping to counteract and cause damage. He was stunning for watching and worth a deep diving on YouTube to recognize his championship.

As with many figures larger than life, the legend is surrounded by PEP. Perhaps the most strong legend is that PEP promised writers that he would win the round without throwing a blow. Before fighting Jackie Graves, a very solid opponent, he reportedly announced in the third round that he would win, having a zero crime. He often reports as truth in documentary films about PEP, and even wore two of three results cards in the third night.

The answer is definitely, probably not.

We know that PEP won the fight, but there is no movie. It was before reporters and filmmakers reported official results cards, so we can’t rely on it. In fact, reporting was so inconsistent in this era that AP and UPI did not agree to how many times Graves fell in the fight – one information service said twice and the other reported four charm.

Pep liked to talk about the round and said that he even wore an article about a fight that allegedly verified that he won the round without throwing a blow. Some even claimed that Willie wrote the article himself. At the end of his life, Graves said that he did not remember if he lost the round without throwing a blow, but he said that it was possible because it is hard to hit him.

“I believe he did it. The man was a legend and a star outside of boxing. He spent time spent with men such as Jackie Gleason and Frank Sinatra – why would he have to come up with something to seem to seem to seem to seem to seem to seem to seem to seem to seem to seem to seem to seem to seem to seem to seem to seem to seem to seem to seem to seem to see “James Madio says. Madio played Featherweight, Bio-PIC 2024 PEP. Modern Yorker He said in his release of the academy that Madio should have been nominated for the best actor.

Regardless of whether the myth is true, he remains the fact that Willie Pep was one of the most elusive boxers who have ever entered the ring. His defense skills were really something that could be seen and you could see his influence on fighters such as Ali, Camacho and Whitaker. His leg work and lateral movement, his feelings and incorrect management and movement of the head made opponents stunned and often frozen. He slipped, hit, waited and paired with absurd balance.

Or is it all without throwing a blow to win the round?

“While the second boxer did not throw any blows, you can’t win a round without a blow,” says Joe Cusano. Cusano is for many years Pro Ref and a judge who appeared in the film-playing, of course, a judge. “He would have to throw something.” (Cusano’s book, MountainsIN will be released later this year.)

Could charisma Pepa facilitate him win a round without a blow? One part of the legend is that he told the judges what he was going to do.

“Hey, if Willie leaned over the ropes and talked to the judges who could have in their head and maybe influenced them,” says Madio. It would not be the first or last time the fighter influenced the judges.

To justify shooting a round for a warrior who did not throw a single blow, would require quite abstract thinking. After applying four scoring criteria, this would mean that there will be no pure impact and zero aggression, not to mention effective aggression. It seems to me that you can get points for general defense and ring, but usually these two supporting criteria count when they lead to a pure blow. If the warrior simply avoids without counteracting, this is not really worthy of points.

The opponent, as Joe Cusano emphasizes, would have to be complicit in his passivity, losing all his blows, and maybe even throwing. I think that if one warrior does not throw any blows at all, and the other boxer threw the blows that did not land, it is probably enough to give this warrior a round.

“I spent the whole day with Willie in Hall of Fame and we talked a lot about it,” says Mark Baker, a biographer of PEP. “It has always sounded shaky, and the more I caused, the more the story fell apart. In the end, Willie said that he probably stabbed or threw blows, but did not land. “

Ripping and throwing blows that may not land is completely different than not throwing everyone strikes. You can certainly win the round by doing these things.

“Willie was quite a figure and he had some stories of high stories,” says Baker.

Baker also has an insight into how the article was written and how the legend developed.

“At that time, reporters and writers sent their accounts through the wire,” he explains. “Their relations with the fighting were often quite faulty. On the Night of the Pep-Graves fight there was a lot of sun activity that would interrupt the broadcast. It would leave many holes in the relationship with the fight. The guy who wrote the article that Willa was carrying with him was a rather unclear reporter and could take this opportunity to write something sensational. “

Featherweight It will have a wide version in May at various stream points. Marek Baker’s book Willie Pep: Biography 20th The greatest feather knowledge of the century It is available at Amazon and the same applies to the upcoming boxing book Joe Cusano Mountains.