Lamont Roach (25-1-2, 10 Ko) says he should have won the match against light champion WBA Gervonta Davis (30-0-1, 28 kos) on Saturday night and would have had the referee had the right call to the ninth when Tank got a knee to a breeze. York.
Many social media fans believed that Roach won and had never seen the tank look so bad before. The inertia, the weak biography, and he himself with a view of the Roach can cost him.
Roach says he was based on Knockdown to win because he thought he had done more than enough to win the decision. The judges noted it a 12-round majority draw from the scores 15-113 for a tank, 114-114 and 114-114. Certainly it seemed that Roach had won the match even with the referee blowing the call to ninth.
“I thought I should have won without this being calculated as a knockdown,” Lamont Roach told mediaSpeaking about the referee’s appeal, who chose not to give him credit for the fall of Gervonta Davis in the ninth round when he got a knee.
Obviously it helps that the Davis tank was the superstar in this race and the one who gave the Barclays center. If the referee had made the right call to ninth, he would confuse things for a popular money.
“If he had to wipe the sweat out of his eye, he had to wipe the sweat out of his eye. But the rules say that if you voluntarily get a knee, this is an eight meter automatic. I didn’t rely on it. I rely on what I did there,” he said.
“I take control, I got to more footage and landed more power shots. I thought I was doing my thing. So I am not really so frustrated about it, but if it was measured as a knockout, I would have won a majority decision.
“Did you see me in the ring,” keep counting? “I was like,” Why did you stop? Keep counting, “Roach said of how he didn’t understand why the referee stopped counting after Davis took a knee to the ninth. “I honestly don’t know (about why the referee didn’t rule a knockdown).”
Last update on 03/02/2025
