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Gervonta Davis' Hairstylist Pulls Out Receipts After Hair Grease Controversy

Tank Davis' hairstylist is pulling out evidence that the "grease" she put in his hair didn't impact him on fight night.
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GERVONTA DAVIS (30-0-28) defeats FRANK MARTIN (18-1-12) on June 15, 2024.
GERVONTA DAVIS (30-0-28) defeats FRANK MARTIN (18-1-12) on June 15, 2024. | IMAGO / ZUMA Press Wire

If you're a boxing fan, you're surely already well aware of what happened in the ninth round of the March 1 fight between Gervonta 'Tank' Davis and Lamont Roach Jr. for the WBA lightweight championship.

A moment after absorbing a few punches from Roach Jr., Davis dropped to one knee before going over to his corner and asking them to wipe his face. While this knee should have been counted as a knockdown and Davis deducted one point, referee Steve Willis didn't deem Tank's knee a knockdown.

Therefore, when the fight was scored as a majority draw, fans couldn't help but notice that Davis' knee being (correctly) called a knockdown would have resulted in Roach Jr. earning the split-decision win and Davis receiving the first loss of his professional career.

After the fight, Tank asserted that he took a knee because he had some of the product (specifically grease) from his hair in his eyes during that ninth round, and it was impacting his vision.

“I just got my hair done two days ago and she put grease in my [expletive],” Davis said in his post-fight interview. “So the [expletive] was like, You know when you’re sweating and things like that and the grease come in my face, it burnt my eye.”

However, now Davis' hairstylist for the fight (who goes by @leebthebrand on Instagram) is calling Tank out for his post-fight comments.

On March 2, the hairstylist reposted an Instagram story that shows Davis' hair before the fight and was captioned, "Take a loook aroundddd, You see an overlode of grease everywhere? Newssss flash, You're not 🫶🏾😒 @leebthebrand still ate those braids up but dont make my girl the reason for it being a draw 🙃".

Among the other Instagram posts she had made include her saying, “I did his hair WEDNESDAY, It's SATURDAY! He did press, gym and weigh in. That's no excuse, how much grease did I use damn”.

She also posted a photo of her shop with the caption, “Is the grease in the room with us?".

And finally, she pulled out the receipts by posting a photo of the ingredients of the (alleged) product she used in his hair with the caption, "The grease in question ."

Regardless of the hair grease's role in the draw, it's hard to imagine Davis will be returning to this hairstylist anytime soon.

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Grant Young is a Staff Writer for On SI’s Boxing, New York Mets, Indiana Fever, and Women’s Fastbreak sites. Before joining SI in 2024, he wrote for various boxing and sports verticals such as FanBuzz and NY Fights. Young has a bachelor’s degree in marketing and a master’s degree in creative writing with an emphasis on sports nonfiction from the University of San Francisco, where he played five seasons of Division 1 baseball. He fought Muay Thai professionally in Thailand in 2023, loves a good essay, and is driven crazy trying to handle a pitpull puppy named Aura. Young lives in San Diego and was raised in the San Francisco Bay Area.