Who is Frank Martin? Major indictment of your opinion. Actual fans of the sport love this matchup. I don't buy PPV's for main events, I buy them for depth. Gervonta is absolutely a PPV fighter, he's a top 5 pfp. Martin does have a real chance at beating him. Sorry, you don't follow the sport closely enough for your opinion to influence my love of this card.
Frank Martin a former sparring partner of Davis. He's fought no one and barely won his last fight. Sell me on the fight.
Frank did struggle in his last fight. He looked amazing vs Michel Rivera (Showtime headliner), stopped Jackson Marinez (Showtime fight), and won the only time he headlined an FS1 show vs another undefeated prospect. Anyone who headlines a Showtime card is on the brink of making the jump to ppv's (especially as the B side).
Do you mean because Davis isn't good enough or not enough of a name to be PPV? I personally rate him highly imho but I know some people think he is overrated.
I think in the right fight, he's a PPV star. I'd pay to see him fight Teofimo. I'd pay maybe even for Loma. For Frank Martin though? Nah. I'm not paying 80 bucks to watch Frank Martin get KO'd in a tuneup.
Fair enough sir. I think he beats Teofimo, Loma would be a great fight although he isn't getting any younger.
I actually really like Tank Davis. Well, in the ring anyway. I just don't feel like this is an 80 dollar fight. Too many mid level fights have been PPV lately.
I thought it was a pretty good fight when it got signed, but yeah it’s not gonna be a signature win or anything, just hoping for some good action while it lasts. Benavidez fight interests me more to be honest, even if Gvozdyk is a total unknown obviously picked in the hopes he’ll be soft and easy to obliterate. The quoted bit just cracked me up
I had to go back and watch his last fight and he looked really bad for the first 3/4 of the fight. The shots he took from Harutyunyan he's not taking from Davis. Davis is occasionally a slow starter, but if it takes him more than 5 or 6 rounds to end this, I'll be surprised. I see no path to victory for Martin.
Well, if it’s that’s easy for him then hopefully he gets it done in spectacular fashion so we get a HL we all remember. Personally, I’m hoping to see Tank tested here. I must have missed the Harutyunyan fight, because when I’ve seen Martin he’s been pretty solid. Right now my attn has drifted to 140 where things seem to be happening. 135, not a lot of fights for Tank matter to me. Pretty much the Loma fight sounds like it will be really good if it happens soon. Not much else looks like it will really be exciting. This fight should be fun while it lasts.
PBC co-promotes all the time, hell look at this weekend. They've worked with Golden Boy and Top Rank. My understanding is it's usually Bob/Oscar that won't let their fighters fight on PBC cards because they know Al controls more of the market.
Tanks trying to catch him at the right time before he becomes something. Thats all.
