Teofimo Lopez On Gervonta Davis' Dissatisfaction With Martin Fight Promotions

Teofimo Lopez, who is the WBO light welterweight champion, understands the reason why Gervonta 'Tank' Davis chose not to fight at his event held yesterday in Las Vegas in his Saturday night fight with Frank Martin.

Lopez feels that 'regular' WBA lightweight champion Tank (29-00, 27 KOs) took the wrong approach to get revenge on his promoters for not doing a good job of pushing the promotion to turn the contest into a blockbuster.

Promotion Limitations

Tank, 29, doesn't understand that even if his promoters had spent a lot of time, money, and effort to talk about his title defense against Frank Martin (18-0, 12 KOs), the boxing community wouldn't have much interest in it. .

The season for that is Martin isn't a big name, he doesn't have charisma, and he's not the guy the fans wanted Tank Davis to fight. No advertising company can artificially create interest in a tournament if the fans don't find it attractive.

If Tank's promoters believed his fight with Martin was big enough to invest in the promotion, they wouldn't have added fights with David Benavidez, Gary Antuanne Russell, and Carlos Adames to the undercard. It is obvious that they put them on the card because they understood that Martin was not the fight that the boxing community was excited to see Tank fight.

In order for Tank to get more interest in his battles, he should focus on dealing with these fighters:

– Shakur Stevenson
– Ryan Garcia
– Devin Haney
– William Zepeda
– Vasily Lomachenko
– Teofimo Lopez
– Naoya Inoue
– Jaron 'Boots' Ennis

Davis has to put his career on the line to get fans excited to see more of his fights, and he can't expect his managers to cheer him for his performances if he's going to face less opposition.

The Importance of Professionalism

“The tank is invisible [for the grand arrivals] maybe it's because of the lack of promotion he showed,” said Teofimo Lopez on the Sean Zittel YouTube channel, talking about Gervonta 'Tank' Davis who failed to come out to those who came yesterday to promote his fight with Frank Martin on Saturday.

“He said that the non-promotion of positions was pushed in this war. A lot of people don't see that they're fighting this weekend, like, 'Whoa,' but when people start to figure it out, I think it's Tanki who shows his understanding of the promo and basically gets back at them.

“Sometimes, it's not good to do that. There are some methods. There have been many times when I didn't want to go to my fighter meetings with ESPN just because of some people I didn't agree with about my style or my latest fight. However, it is a duty and responsibility for us, and we must show it.

“The tank didn't just go and do nothing. It's clear that you can see the video of him working without being seen,” said Teofimo.