By Adam Baskin: Today’s Gervonta Davis vs. Ryan Garcia weigh-in will occur at an unheard-of 6:00 pm, which is incredibly late for the typical weigh-ins for fights.
This is more of A-side moves on Tank Davis’ management’s part to force Ryan to stay at 136 catchweight for as long as possible to weaken him for Saturday’s fight at the T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas. The question is will it help Tank win or will it weaken him as well, resulting in the strength-draining move backfiring on him.
After all, Tank is the older, fatter of the two, and he also looked drained during the final press conference on Thursday.
When you got an older guy like Tank with a history of missing weight, you probably shouldn’t be trying to play games with late weigh-ins, catchweights, and rehydration clauses.
Secondary weigh-in rumored at 6:00 pm on Saturday
What’s even more interesting is Saturday’s secondary weigh-in for the 10-lb rehydration clause is rumored to be taking place at 6:00 p.m. as well, which, if true, leaves Ryan only a tiny handful of hours to fully rehydrate before the fight.
It’s hard to believe Oscar De Hoya agreed to all the weight stipulations in the contract for the Tank Davis vs. Ryan Garcia fight because it’s incredible to see this kind of gaming the system being done by the A-side against a fighter that is arguably more popular than him.
“We don’t know what kind of weight issues Ryan has. We have to see on fight night which Ryan shows up and which Tank shows up, and may the best man win,” said Devin Haney Secondsout, looking like one of the sunglass-wearing zombie characters from the movie, ‘The Omega Man.”
“I don’t know. Every fighter has their own whatever. He had leverage to do that, so he did that,” Haney said, giving a weak, wishy-washy reply when asked what he thinks of Gervonta Davis sticking a 10-lb rehydration clause in the contract along with a 136-lb catchweight.
“I never know. Me in the future, I might do that. Me, personally, I wouldn’t go under those conditions. Obviously, we know I’m a huge 135-pounder, but Ryan felt like he could be victorious, so he signed up for it.
“You can’t sign up for something and then cry about it. We’ll see,” said Haney, showing his naivety with his weak answer, which sounded a lot like a fighter trying his hardest not to step on Tank Davis’ toes to curry favor with him to improve his chances of getting a fight against him next should he come out victorious on Saturday.
