Why Gervonta Davis took the knee......

[thecoldbloodedone]

From the footage I watched, it looked like he took a clean straight right to the body from Roach, and there was a second there where he was frozen before the pain or difficulty breathing really hit him.
Delayed affect.
Its common in fighting, experienced it myself and seen it happen many many times with body shots, that processing time to feel the affect, and see if you can pokerface it and either move away or tie up to recover.

I think he was just looking for some extra time to recover in peace rather than get on his bike, and unable to tie Roach up from where he was.

 

[Legendary]

Because he was hurt and it was absolute bullshit they didn't take a point.

 

[Kovalev's "Man Bag"]

It wasn't a delayed reaction due to a body shot it had to do with his eye. He was blinking like it was irritated just before he took a knee. Even tried to wipe it with his own glove. Regardless of what happened the reason doesn't even matter. Tank voluntarily took a knee and the ref initially started to count. According to the NYSAC's rules it's a knockdown. Tank taking a knee was voluntary, there was no foul involved, and legal punches are what led to it (delayed reaction or not).

 

[Kovalev's "Man Bag"]

Because he was hurt and it was absolute bullshit they didn't take a point.

The ref should've maintained the knockdown ruling and also deducted a point from Tank for receiving outside assistance from his corner in the middle of the fight. Technically, it's grounds for disqualification but realistically that was never an option.

 

[pugilistico]

Let's say it's not a knockdown, and the ref ruled it a slip, which is the only circumstance I can think of where a fighter goes down and ref doesn't rule it a knockdown, other than via cheating i.e. nut shot or something. In what circumstances is a fighter allowed to just walk to his corner in the middle of the round like that? That alone should've been a point deduction.

If it wasn't a knockdown and Davis can just walk away, Roach should've been allowed to keep on punching. If not that would obviously open Roach to getting penalized, so Davis should've had a point deducted.

It's an absolute bullshit call by the ref, who normally has done a great job in most fights.

 

[Kovalev's "Man Bag"]

 

[StopDucking]

It’s not even up for debate if you take the time to watch the slow mo.
1. Tank’s braid went into his eye when he turned his head. Roach’s punch didn’t even connect.
2. It should 100% be counted as a knockdown because a fighter can’t just take a timeout whenever he wants.

 

[Kovalev's "Man Bag"]

It’s not even up for debate if you take the time to watch the slow mo.
1. Tank’s braid went into his eye when he turned his head. Roach’s punch didn’t even connect.
2. It should 100% be counted as a knockdown because a fighter can’t just take a timeout whenever he wants.

You can see his braid clearly hit his eye. Never noticed it until this breakdown's slow motion replay. There may've been hair product involved after all or it could just be that the hard braid itself was enough to irritate his eye. Yes, it was undoubtedly a knockdown. The rules about that are clear.

 

[burningspear]

he wouldnt have been whipping his head around if roach wasnt attacking him, legit kd