By Sean Jones: Prime Rank promoter Bob Arum says he desires to place collectively a struggle between Teofimo Lopez and Gervonta ‘Tank’ Davis after the 2 fighters get previous their subsequent opponents.
If WBA ‘common’ light-weight champion Tank Davis (25-0, 24 KOs) and his promoters at Mayweather Promotions comply with the match with Teofimo (16-0, 12 KOs), it can happen subsequent 12 months.
Apparently, Arum didn’t make point out of a struggle that Matchroom Boxing promoter Eddie Hearn has been speaking nonstop about desirous to make between WBC light-weight champion Devin Haney and Teofimo for early 2022.
For Arum to not be speaking of the struggle between Teofimo and Haney, it means that he views the Tank Davis contest because the a lot bigger-money match-up. Tank vs. Teofimo would dwarf the cash Teofimo-Haney would herald.
The undefeated 26-year-old Gervonta is a bonified pay-per-view attraction, whereas the 22-year-old Haney (26-0, 15 KOs) continues to be beginning within the sport and making an attempt to realize followers together with his finesse fashion of preventing.
Some boxing followers view Haney as a weak model of Floyd Mayweather Jr. as soon as you are taking away his pace and far of the expertise he as soon as possessed when he was youthful.
“I simply suppose it was a travesty that after he [Teofimo] beat Lomachenko, he wasted an entire 12 months with this entire nonsense with Triller. That basically made no sense,” mentioned Bob Arum to ESNEWS about Lopez losing the final 12 months of his profession by selecting to go the purse bid route for his obligatory protection towards Kambosos Jr.
“Now, we’ll struggle Kambosos, and in my view, there is just one winner in that struggle [Teofimo] after which he’ll have his alternative of some nice fighters he can struggle.
“Most likely [Josh] Taylor received’t be accessible till the spring,” Arum continued. “The struggle that I wish to see him struggle is towards Tank Davis. Undoubtedly in Vegas,” Arum mentioned when requested the place he’d prefer to have the Gervonta vs. Teofimo struggle staged.
“It’s a giant, huge pay-per-view. We now have an outdated monitor document of working intently with PBC. So if Floyd [Mayweather Jr.] and Tank need that struggle, I believe we are able to get it organized.
“However Tank has proven the flexibility to attract, and Teofimo is Teofimo, and that might be a significant, main struggle. I adore it additionally,” mentioned Arum.
Gervonta Davis vs. Teofimo Lopez is a far greater struggle than for Teo to tackle Devin Haney subsequent 12 months. Nobody desires to see Teofimo making an attempt to pry Haney off of him for the final half of the struggle as soon as he begins staggering him the way in which 35-year-old former three-division world champion Jorge Linares did towards Devin earlier this 12 months on Could twenty ninth.
That struggle was nearly unwatchable due to Haney hugging Linares nonstop from the ninth spherical after getting buzzed.
Wanting again at that struggle, Haney in all probability ought to have been disqualified by the referee for his extreme clinching as a result of that’s all he did for the final 4 rounds, and he bought away with it.
