Lamont Roach says Gervonta Davis changed his number after their controversial 12-round draw on March 1st at the Barclays Center in Brooklyn, New York.
Roach (25-1-2, 10 KOs) that WBA lightweight champion Tank (30-0-1, 28 KOs) had bet him that he would knock him out in their previous fight. However, he never paid on his bet. When Lamont attempted to call Tank, he had changed his number. Roach didn’t say how much the bet was for, but it must have been significant for him to be still harping about it a month later.
Tank’s Focus
Gervonta and Roach have a potential rematch on June 21st in Las Vegas, but it still hasn’t been made official. This is to deal with the criticism over the ninth round of their fight in which Tank took a knee and the referee Steve Willis failed to rule it a knockdown.
Tank looks a lot more motivated in training pictures for the rematch than he was for the first fight. He might make quick work of Roach and shut down the criticism once and for all. Davis looks like another person entirely now. That could be bad news for Roach, who has gained fame from his draw.
He’s already being sought by other fighters in the lightweight division and could get some nice paydays if he’s victorious in the rematch with Tank.
Lamont Roach: “Like the betting that he was going to knock me out and stuff like that. That didn’t go too well for him,” said Roach to All the Smoke Fight Youtube channel, talking about Gervonta Davis having bet him that he would KO him ahead of their fight last month on March 1st.
Andre Ward: “Did y’all bet?”
Roach: “We bet and we shook on it.”
Ward: “Did he pay up?”
Roach: “He changed his number,” said Roach about Gervonta having changed his phone number and never paying him for his bet that he lost. “Again, there’s a high level of mutual respect for one another. Like I said, we’ve bumped into each other plenty of times, more than an average boxer would see another boxer outside of boxing.
“It’s cool. He’s cool with me, and I’m cool with him. If we were to see each other outside of our competition, it’s, ‘What’s up? What you on? How you doing?’”
Ward: “Even after the fight? Even after that?”
Roach: “He changed his number. I tried to call him. He changed his number.”
Ward: “You ain’t got that yet.”
Roach: “he changed his number, slim, but that’ll be a conversation for another day.”
Last Updated on 04/08/2025
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