Gary Russell Jr. on Gervonta Davis: He’s a Good Athlete but I’m a Great Athlete

Published 01/22/2022, 11:30 AM EST

Gervonta Davis is one highly promising young boxing gun. In just a brief span of time, Davis made his way to the top, by outboxing opponents with his super aggressive approach. In the entire process, he also ended up making some stern rivals across multiple weight classes, who are eager to get their hands on him.

One of his biggest rivals in today’s time is the WBC featherweight champ, Gary Russell Jr. Recently, the latter was in a chat with Brian Custer. Here, he opened up on rival ‘Tank’ and more.

He said, “He’s a guy where he’s a good athlete, but he’s aware that I’m a great athlete. And I also have the intellect behind it.”

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“Intellect of athleticism. I mean it’s been, how many times have we seen Gervonta ‘Tank’ Davis have to come from behind in the scorecards because he’s losing 4, 5, 6, 7, 8 rounds to have to come and have a knockout in order to win the fight, you don’t see that with Mr. Gary Russell Jr.”

Gary Russell Jr. shares a tremendous feud with Gervonta Davis. Moreover, the featherweight champ called out ‘Tank’ many times for a fight. But since Davis elevated in a weight class, he hasn’t quite paid attention to ‘Mr.’s call-outs.

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Gervonta Davis, with time, moved up in weight class and his prime focus was to win a strap in every division. Regardless of that, Russell Jr., in his above comments, went all out against his foe, jibing at ‘Tank’ over his boxing run.

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‘Tank’ is eager to make a statement in the lightweight frame and for that, he even vacated his WBA title at the super-lightweight landscape.

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Citing this, if Russell Jr. wishes to confront his rival, he’ll have to scale up to 135-pounds. Also, moving to the lightweight roster so soon doesn’t seem to be in ‘Mr.’s plans.

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With that, a fight between the two stalwarts seems unlikely for this year at least.

What do you make of Russell Jr.’s comments on Davis?

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Prathamesh Singh Chauhan is a Boxing Author at EssentiallySports. He is a graduate from the International Institute of Sports Management who combines his love for sports, particularly combat sports, and his flair for writing and analysis to help him in his day-to-day work. He has prior professional experience with sporting organizations such as Star Sports, Khelo India, and NBA.

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