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'Secret' To Beating Gervonta Davis Revealed By Devin Haney's Dad

Devin Haney's dad is convinced he knows the "secret" to beating Gervonta Davis.
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Gervonta "Tank" Davis looks on during a June 15, 2024 fight.
Gervonta "Tank" Davis looks on during a June 15, 2024 fight. | IMAGO / ZUMA Press Wire

The jury is still out on whether Gervonta "Tank" Davis got exposed during his March 1 fight against Lamont Roach, which ended in a majority draw.

While Tank has had stretches of sub-par performance in fights and has even been down before, he has always managed to make up for it with his vicious power, which is shown by 28 of his 30 professional wins being by KO.

But once it became clear that Roach could handle his power, Davis' biggest assert diminished and he didn't have the same dominance as his fans have become accustomed to.

It was fascinating for the boxing world to see Davis face this type of adversity in the ring. And during an April 19 interview on CigarTalk, Bill Haney (who is the father and head trainer of pound-for-pound great Devin Haney) spoke about Lamont Roach providing a blueprint to beating Tank.

"Listen: All the tapes are out, everything is out," Haney said of Gervonta. "We've seen everything. It's out."

He later added, "Everybody knows that old crazy Bill just ain't crazy no more. Thankful to Lamont Roach and Team Roach that [beating Davis] can be done. And when Tank is not comfortable, Tank is not the Tank that you guys know.

"And our secret was that we wasn't going to make him comfortable, you know what I mean? But I think Roach, he did a good job of exposing Tank to that," he added of a potential fight between Haney and Tank.

Time will tell whether Roach can capitalize on this supposed "secret" to beating Davis once the two rematch, which is expected to occur this summer.

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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.