Gervonta Davis revealed today during the press conference that he’ll be retiring in 2025 after three more fights. Fans don’t believe Tank, seeing this as him following the told Mayweather playbook to feign a retirement to increase his market value for a return.
Tank didn’t give any hints about who the three would be for his final three fights, but people are expecting these three:
- Ryan Garcia- rematch
- Shakur Stevenson
- Devin Haney
If Baltimore native Davis does seriously retire, there won’t be many fans who miss him because he’s only been involved in one major fight during his 11-year career, and that was against Ryan Garcia, whose 12 million Instagram followers were the sole reason for the PPV success of the event on April 22, 2023.
Tank’s Retirement Plan?
WBA lightweight champion Tank (30-0, 28 KOs) is preparing for an unpopular title defense against super featherweight Lamont Roach on March 1st on PBC on Prime Video PPV at the Barclays Center in Brooklyn, New York.
“After next year, I’m out of it,” said Gervonta Davis to the media, revealing he plans on retiring in 2025. “3 times this year, then I’m out of here.”
Tank is probably the most disappointing popular champion since Mayweather, with his ducking & dodging the killers that fans have been begging for him to fight. He’s wanted no part of fighting any of the sharks in any of the weight classes he’s competed in. Therefore, people will say, ‘Good riddance‘ when Tank finally walks out the door into retirement.
I don’t believe for a second that Davis will be retiring in 2025, 2026, or 2027. As long as he keeps winning and the money continues to roll in by the truckload, he’s NOT going anywhere. This was likely some planned drama to get fans going so Tank could pull a fake retirement to increase demand.
With the money that His Excellency Turki Alalshikh will pay Tank Davis to fight Shakur Stevenson, he doesn’t need a fake retirement hustle. He’ll be well paid to take that fight with Stevenson as long as he doesn’t reject the match out of fear.
Tank obviously doesn’t like being dumped on by fans his choice of opponents, with him selecting Roach from the 130-lb division and ignoring the contenders at 135. It’s so obvious that Davis is avoidant and unwilling to fight the top contenders who are a threat to him at lightweight. Anyone can see it. Instead of getting upset, Davis should look in the mirror and realize he’s caused all the misery himself.
