Gervonta ‘Tank’ Davis’s head trainer Calvin Ford talks about his upcoming exhibition fight with Jake Paul and what he makes of their preparations for this meeting, the size difference, and all of that
jazz. Ford would also dismiss those who sympathize with Lamont Roach for losing out on a rematch with Gervonta, saying anybody would’ve taken the offer given to Tank. Here’s some of what he had to say below.
Ford on what he thinks of Tank fighting Jake Paul
“I said the fight doable because I watched Tank for years and watched other young men in gyms deal with big guys. Yes, he’s big. To me it’s like Jake having his first open fights, if anyone knows about the amateurs…My only concern is the gloves because we don’t fight in 12 oz gloves, we don’t use 12 oz gloves, that’s training gloves.
“So my thing is, ‘put Tank in eights, put (Jake) in tens.’ That makes the fight more interesting and we’ll go from there. And I brought that up to one of his handlers and they say ‘no, we don’t want to do no mix and match.’ It’s supposed to be an exhibition…He can wear the tens and we wear the eights, then we got a fight.”
On the weight difference
“Well, they got him at 190, 195. I thought it was going to be 190, so they gave him five…I ain’t worried about the weight. We got to deal with it, we’re taking the fight. We signed the contract, we’re going to make it do what it do.”
On Lamont Roach not getting his rematch
“Tank, everybody he fights he make famous. Roach was a nobody before…If any of them top guys that they talk about would’ve had an offer that been offered to Tank, they would’ve jumped on it, too.”
