{"id":194871,"date":"2025-10-07T06:45:14","date_gmt":"2025-10-07T06:45:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/194871\/"},"modified":"2025-10-07T06:45:14","modified_gmt":"2025-10-07T06:45:14","slug":"gervonta-davis-coach-calvin-ford-reveals-the-real-reason-he-underperformed-against-lamont-roach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/194871\/","title":{"rendered":"Gervonta Davis’ Coach Calvin Ford Reveals The Real Reason He Underperformed Against Lamont Roach"},"content":{"rendered":"

Question marks remain over Gervonta Davis<\/a> following his performance against Lamont Roach<\/a> earlier this year.<\/p>\n

Davis put his WBA lightweight title on the line against Roach at the Barclays Center in New York back in March, in a bout that most fans expected to be a straightforward defence for \u2018Tank.\u2019<\/p>\n

It didn\u2019t transpire that way though, as the two men couldn\u2019t be separated at the conclusion of the contest, with it ending in a majority decision draw.<\/a><\/p>\n

Add to that various comments made about retirement, plus his decision to take a controversial exhibition contest against Jake Paul<\/a> rather than a rematch with Roach, and it has fans wondering if Davis is still fully focused on his career.<\/p>\n

His trainer Calvin Ford has now attempted to ease though concerns, explaining to Fight Hub TV<\/a> the real reason why \u2018Tank\u2019 wasn\u2019t at his best against Roach, and how a shoving incident with Paul at their launch press conference shows him that it won\u2019t happen again.<\/p>\n

\u201cJake crossed the line too close and was in his chest. That\u2019s why Tank was backing him off. When I saw that I saw the glimpse of Tank was still in there.<\/p>\n

\u201cLast fight he was too friendly with Roach. I see a little glimpse of it but I understand, he\u2019s trying to stay humble. You see glimpses of it when he\u2019s talking but he\u2019s trying to stay humble and trying to learn how to control the beast.\u201d<\/p>\n

The exhibition between Davis and Paul takes place on Friday 14 November at the Kaseya Center in Miami, Florida<\/a>, and will be broadcast live on Netflix.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Question marks remain over Gervonta Davis following his performance against Lamont Roach earlier this year. Davis put his…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":194872,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[571],"tags":[64,63,802,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-194871","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-boxing","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-boxing","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194871","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=194871"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194871\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/194872"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=194871"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=194871"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=194871"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}