Gervonta Davis Confirms Frank Martin Caught Him Once While Sparring

The upcoming June 15 fight between Gervonta Davis and Frank Martin is heavily assumed to be one-sided. However, ‘Tank’, majorly attributed as someone who can rarely be defeated faced trouble when he sparred with his next opponent. Could that be a matter of concern?

With just a little over a month left in his fight against the ‘Ghost’, Davis has kicked off the promotions for the fight. Their first press conference on May 4 went down with enough drama to last them till fight night. With Tank making references to Martin’s girlfriend and even crashing his interview leading to fist fights, the day was quite eventful. The same day, in another media interaction, Tank underscored that the fight won’t be as easy as most think it will be for him. After all, if Martin could faze him in a sparring session, why can’t he do the same on fight night?

Tank noted on the Million Dollaz Worth of Game Podcast, “You caught me one time.” He further remarked, “I sparred already; he was scared to spar. I jumped on him. He’s a southpaw. He threw the brick hand. Boom! That’s what caught me.” However, he did not let that incident govern his winning chances for June 15. He announced, “It wasn’t like, boom and… Hell no. Everybody in here know, if I get touched, I’m coming on that a**.” 

While it is unclear when this sparring session took the course, it is certain that Tank remembers every bit of it. While he was caught briefly in the said sparring session, there are chances he recuperated quickly.

Perhaps it’s the same sparring video Martin alluded to earlier in a media interaction. Martin revealed that Tank had urged to show him a video of “some” sparring, but ultimately didn’t show the full clip. Martin said, “Man, it’s sparring. We’re fighting June 15, I don’t even want to keep talking about the sparring. He was going to show me the video, he ain’t show it. He showed a certain part and then they got turned up and all that, but it wasn’t nothing that he showed.”

“We fighting now so the story of sparring, we can go ahead sweep that under the rug and when we fight June 15, it’s on,” Frank Martin added. Despite being the favorite, Gervonta Davis, the WBA Regular lightweight champion, can’t afford to overlook his opponent. Frank Martin boasts an impressive undefeated record of 18-0, with 12 of those victories coming by knockout.

While he remained confident that he would win, Tank was kind enough to give an important piece of advice to Frank Martin.

Don’t walk the path of Ryan Garcia, advises Gervonta Davis

Ahead of his fight against Devin Haney, Ryan Garcia showed the world that he was a regular drinker, with parties lasting days. However, when the fight arrived, he proved to those who assumed that his habits would make him lose big. He won through a knockout. Martin, who was earlier seen partying with Garcia, does not have that capacity, noted Tank.

In the same conversation, the Baltimore-based fighter advised his 29-year-old opponent, “You’ve been with Ryan(Garcia)..been drinking, been out with him partying. Do you have the skills to be out partying and missing(training)?! You don’t have the skills to be doing that. You started(boxing) when you was 15. If I started at 15..I’d be grinding(training all day). You trash!”

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