Lamont Roach has blown off some steam and gone into detail on last weekend’s draw with Gervonta Davis.
Speaking a short time ago on the Nightcap Podcast Lamont Roach said:
“[Shannon Sharpe]:
Hello, it’s your favorite sports Unc here! Don’t forget to hit that subscribe button to join the fastest-growing community on YouTube. Remember, Night Cap doesn’t happen without you, so please subscribe, or you’re going to make Ocho cry. Joining us now, he fought to a majority draw Saturday night—it doesn’t look like he’s too pleased with that, and there are a lot of people on social media who actually thought he won that fight. Joining us, Lamont Roach Jr. Lamont, how you doing, bro?
[Lamont Roach Jr.]:
What’s up, man? I’m good, man. Thanks for having me. I feel real good.
[Shannon Sharpe]:
No, thank you for joining us! Take us through Saturday night. You go into that fight, you move up five pounds from 130 to 135, and you’re feeling… I mean, everybody’s saying, “That man’s got no chance.” Tank told you a couple of days earlier, “Hey, you’re not going the distance.” Y’all shook on it—$250, whatever the case may be. You go into that fight—a slow starter who builds up as the fight progresses. He’s trying to land hooks to the body, come up top with it. What was your process? What were you going into that fight with? How did you want to fight, and did it turn out the way you thought it would?
[Lamont Roach Jr.]:
Well, honestly, yeah, the fight went exactly how we planned it to go. We’re familiar with him—we’ve been familiar with him. We just knew it was a matter of time for everything to fall into place. And back to everybody not giving me a shot, saying I’m going to get knocked out and all that—I know what I’m capable of, and I know what I can do. In a nutshell, they had me totally messed up. Especially when he bet me, saying he was going to stop me—what’d I tell him myself? I said, “You’re tripping.” I said, “I don’t know what got into your head these last couple minutes, few days, whatever the case—you’re tripping. You’re not going to do that.” I told him, “I know you’re not going to do that—cut it out.”
[Shannon Sharpe]:
Hey, listen, when you talk about being very familiar with him—and I understand you and your team went into the fight with a game plan—is that familiarity because you guys probably trained together in the past, been in camp together, or sparred together? Is that why you were so familiar, and whatever game plan your team had, you were able to execute it so well?
[Lamont Roach Jr.]:
I mean, yeah, it’s one of the many reasons why it went so well. Even though we were kids, some of those traits, characteristics, and just ways of a man grew with him. So, some of the dirty tactics—I knew he’d revert to that when the pressure built up, when somebody wasn’t scared of him, when somebody was there to return fire. You know what I’m saying? In his professional career, he hasn’t been in the ring with something like that—or something of the caliber I’ve got.
[Shannon Sharpe]:
Right. So, what I thought—obviously watching the fight and looking at all of Tank’s fights—most of the time, he starts slow, and then around rounds five or six, he starts to pick it up a little bit. By the time he’s picking it up, normally his opponent is deteriorating—their conditioning isn’t where it’s supposed to be. But I’m looking at you—they get to rounds six and seven, and he’s coming forward, and you’re not even moving. At that point, y’all are mid-range, you’re sitting in the pocket, and most of the time when he hits somebody, they retreat. But you took one to give one. I’m like, “What? This boy’s going at it!” So, did his power not affect you in any way where you didn’t really care? Did you just sit in the pocket with him and exchange? Because most of the time, you’ve got to be cautious—when throwing punches, you’ve got a chance to get hit. Did you not care at all, or did you feel his power early and weren’t worried about it?
[Lamont Roach Jr.]:
It wasn’t that I didn’t care—it’s that I was cautious, like you said. I was cautious, but my defense was there, and my confidence was through the roof. I got a chance—keeping it spade to spade—I see why he knocks people out. I’m not going to say his power is overrated, but I’ve been in there with guys who can punch—like, guys who can really punch. It was nothing new to me. I’ve been in there with middleweight champions, junior middleweight champions—as they were champions in their prime and stuff like that. So, you know what I’m saying? I was confident in what I could do defensively, and if I got hit, I knew I was going to give it right back.
[Shannon Sharpe]:
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So, listen, in the ninth round—I’m sorry, you know I get excited about this, I don’t mean to take over—hey, young buck, in the ninth round, Gervonta took a knee. Obviously, there’s some controversy behind that—it wasn’t ruled a knockdown by the referee. I’ve never seen that ever in my years of watching boxing, enjoying the sport of combat sports in general. Did that moment impact your strategy for the remainder of the fight?
[Lamont Roach Jr.]:
I’m going to say no, and let me tell you why. The simple fact that he took the knee was really a boost, because it’s like, “All right, what we’re doing is working. We know he’s looking for something.” It should have been a knockdown, so that’s why I’m yelling at the referee, “Keep counting! You’re tripping—keep counting! That’s a knockdown!” Because, if y’all didn’t notice, he started the count—he did count it—and then he stopped. Yes, he stopped. So, when he resumed the action, I’m like, “What are you doing? Keep counting! You can’t do that!” And then it wasn’t even registering or processing in my mind the other rules—like the fact that he could’ve gotten disqualified for having his corner come up to the ring and assist him during the round, or that he can’t turn his back on me during the fight. That’s cause for a wave-off. He took a knee, then turned around and went to the corner. Usually, if you turn, they stop the fight.
[Shannon Sharpe]:
Oh, I know that! Yeah, I’m watching you—a lot of times, like Ocho was saying, when people hit Tank, they retreat. But it seemed like you had a strategy: “If he hits me, I’m going to hit him back just as hard, as many times as he hits me.” I don’t think he expected you to return the kind of fire you returned, because you wobbled him a couple of times. I’m not so sure I’ve seen Tank wobble like that—when you caught him a couple of times and got through his guard. Normally, for a southpaw fighter, that lead right is a home run right down Broad Street, and you kept touching him with it, for sure.
[Lamont Roach Jr.]:
It was one of the many things we trained for. Obviously, he’s happy-go-lucky with his left, and it’s been working for his whole career—he’s been knocking these dudes out. So, we’ve been training, sitting on the left, working on countering, being able to block and come back. We had some pretty fast guys and some pretty strong guys that I had to switch rounds with every sparring session. We were ready, we were prepared. Like you said, those dudes weren’t really cracking him back, and I was throwing that fire at him. The accuracy probably pissed him off too, and the fact that I was busy—it’s like, “All right, this ain’t stopping.”
[Shannon Sharpe]:
Yeah, I thought you did an unbelievable job of keeping the pace up. Like Ocho said, he’s a guy who likes to start slow so he has some energy reserves. When he comes out from rounds 5 through 12, he’s like, “I’ve got a lot left. I haven’t really spent any gas—I’ve just been coasting, I’ve been on electric mode. Now I’ve got this fire, I’ve got this gas in the tank, I’m going to unleash.” But you met fire with fire. I’ve heard Floyd say that when he went into a fight, he never watched tape on the guy he was fighting—he left that up to his corner to watch and then give him instructions. He’d take all that information and, once he got in the ring, do his thing. Do you watch fights? When you’re going against a fighter, do you watch them, or do you leave that up to your corner to watch and then give you instructions on what you should do?
[Lamont Roach Jr.]:
I don’t watch them a lot. I just happen to be a boxing fan, so I do watch him fight. I really like boxing—he’s somebody to watch. He’s a spectacular knockout artist, a skilled guy, one of the better pound-for-pound fighters. I like watching good fights, so I do know some of his tendencies. But to study him? Not really—I left that up to my dad. One day in camp, though, we did sit down and watch a few of his fights back-to-back.
[Shannon Sharpe]:
Okay. Hey, listen, Tank has publicly expressed interest—obviously—in a rematch. I’m sure you want a rematch as well. Are you open to an immediate rematch, or do you feel like you don’t need a tune-up fight but might want one just to keep yourself going? Or do y’all run it right back immediately?
[Lamont Roach Jr.]:
Immediate. Just to let y’all know, in my contract, an immediate rematch was signed. I signed for the immediate rematch when I signed for the first fight—just in case he lost or it was a draw. They put that clause in there, so I already signed the rematch clause.
[Shannon Sharpe]:
Okay, so when you’ve got a rematch clause, how long are we talking? How long is the break before you start training again? Is it six months from now?
[Lamont Roach Jr.]:
It’s up to the A-side and when they want to fight. I’m thinking it’s going to be soon—I’m hoping it’s going to be soon, let’s say that.
[Shannon Sharpe]:
I mean, from a boxing standpoint, as a boxer, what is “soon” to you? When you say “soon,” I’m thinking a month—I know that’s crazy—but I’m thinking July.
[Lamont Roach Jr.]:
I’m thinking July—I’m thinking July for sure.
[Shannon Sharpe]:
Okay, but if I’m not mistaken, Lamont, I think I read something that he reached out to Lomachenko’s side to see if they were interested. Did you see that? Did you read that too?
[Lamont Roach Jr.]:
You can’t believe everything you see. If it is true, that’d be funny, but I’m pretty sure the rematch happens, and I’m pretty sure that’s the next fight for both of us.
[Shannon Sharpe]:
But let me ask you this—would you be interested—
[Chad Ochocinco Johnson]:
I’m just saying, would you be interested in fighting Lomachenko or Teofimo Lopez? Or me?
[Lamont Roach Jr.]:
Oh, hold up, Chad—hold up, hold up, Chad! Hey, put a pause on it! Chad, I don’t know if you saw me fight Saturday—I really do this.
[Chad Ochocinco Johnson]:
Hey, I was there! I was there! Listen, I’ve been studying you for years, you hear me? I can—I don’t have the time, but I could tell you your tendencies right now, rounds 1 through 6. If we were to get in there and spar right now, I could tell you what you’re going to do by looking at your feet. When you’ve got your hand down by your hip and you step forward, you’re going to feint—you know what I mean? I’ve got more keys, but listen, I’ve been studying you. I know you. So, if you want to spar at any point, when you get ready for—
[Lamont Roach Jr.]:
Right. I think I’ve seen you work—you’re southpaw, right?
[Chad Ochocinco Johnson]:
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah—I’ve got hands! He ain’t got no power, though. He’s got pillows—pills at the end of his arms. He ain’t got no problem, Lamont. Listen, they call me “Cake Blows”—
[Lamont Roach Jr.]:
No, no, no—hey, Lamont, where I’m from, they call me “Hella Hands.”
[Chad Ochocinco Johnson]:
Yeah, they call me “Hella Hands,” but listen, I reflect on your performance in that fight, bro. Your game plan was phenomenal—everything you did, you executed from round one all the way to 12. After you have a fight like that and put on a show like that, what aspects—how do you improve off that? If you were to grade your performance that night, you’d get an A+. So, what do you go back and work on after putting on a damn good show like that?
[Lamont Roach Jr.]:
Man, it’s just about going on. My thing is, I always want to get better all the time, no matter if I do have a good performance or not. I just go back and watch the tape and see what he did. Obviously, whatever he comes with next time, we’ve still got to capitalize. We’re going to add to what works—if it ain’t broke, don’t fix it. But we’re going to build, we’re going to build. Might try to pick it up so we can see if we can get that stoppage now, you know what I’m saying? You never know—that’s how you capitalize.
[Chad Ochocinco Johnson]:
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah—boy, your conditioning was on point, boy! Old-school fighter, man—15-round fighter over here, man, real talk.
[Lamont Roach Jr.]:
For sure. I was in camp sparring 14 rounds.
[Chad Ochocinco Johnson]:
Wait, with time or no time?
[Lamont Roach Jr.]:
With time, for sure—with time.
[Chad Ochocinco Johnson]:
Okay, okay, okay, okay—‘cause, you know, I did 22 rounds, no clock, Chad. We’re going to get you in camp. Maybe you can get me ready for the rematch—bring me. Hey, matter of fact, bring me to camp—I ain’t even going to charge you. I’ll give you four rounds, let somebody else go four, and I’ll come back for another exchange—no robbery.
[Lamont Roach Jr.]:
I like that.
[Shannon Sharpe]:
All right, bet, man. Lamont, will you put a pause on this, man? Don’t beat him up too bad, ‘cause I need him—I need him for Night Cap. I don’t want him to come back talking about slurring, I don’t want him to come back talking—
[Lamont Roach Jr.]:
He’s going to be all right. I think he’s going to be all right.
[Chad Ochocinco Johnson]:
Don’t hit me with body blows—don’t hit body blows. I’m good, I’m good, I’m good—my defense is my offense. I ain’t going to get hit.
[Shannon Sharpe]:
A lot of times, when guys win and they get a rematch, they’re like, “Well, I don’t have anything to improve upon,” and they run into a problem. Because you had a draw, can you go back and say, “You know what, in this situation here, I should’ve done this instead of that, and I might’ve been able to land something”? Is that how you approach the fight? Because you didn’t get the win, you’re like, “Well, I didn’t get the win—I didn’t lose technically, but I didn’t win either.” As a fighter, draws and ties—that ain’t what we do it for. We want to win, we want to be on the top spot. Because you didn’t land on the top spot, do you feel like, “You know what, go back and watch this fight through 12 rounds—maybe if I pick it up through the first three or four rounds, that’s a round or two that I win, and we don’t even have this discussion”? Because it looked like they gave you round 12—had you not won round 12, he would’ve won the fight, which is sad.
[Lamont Roach Jr.]:
Honestly, to me, I thought I won the fight clearly. I thought I won a close fight—I thought I won a very competitive fight. I’m not saying I steamrolled him or whatever, but to me, I think I won that fight. Now, granted, the ninth round should’ve been called a knockdown. Two judges on the official scorecards gave him the round 10-9. If that was a knockdown, I win the round 10-8—that’s a three-point swing. I would’ve won a unanimous decision. You’ve got to take all of that into account. There were three things that could’ve happened in that ninth round alone with that knee: it could’ve been a 10-8 round scored as a knockdown, it could’ve been a disqualification, or I could’ve won by TKO. So, honestly, when you look at that and say I got a draw against the number one spectacle in America—a pound-for-pound talent and a guy with a 90% knockout ratio—you look at it like, “Okay, if you got a draw, more than likely you were supposed to win that night.” So, even though I didn’t get the win—I’m not a moral victory guy—I’m pissed that I didn’t win, honestly.
[Shannon Sharpe]:
Right, exactly.
[Lamont Roach Jr.]:
I’m pissed that I didn’t win, but I really think I should’ve. A lot of people think I should’ve, and in the rematch, it’s just going to make it worse for him. I’ve got to rev it up, like you said—I’ve got to do something. I’ve got to pick it up somewhere to turn this around and make it a victory for me.
[Shannon Sharpe]:
Lamont, you’re moving up from super featherweight to lightweight. Were you afraid that moving up might rob you of some power? Because, normally, guys who move up lose some of that sting. Were you concerned about that? Are you going to stay at super featherweight, or are you looking to move up to maybe 135, 140?
[Lamont Roach Jr.]:
No, one thing that 135 gave me is a lot more steam, I ain’t going to lie—five less pounds I had to lose. So, you know, I felt good.
[Shannon Sharpe]:
So, where do you normally walk around at, Lamont?
[Lamont Roach Jr.]:
Normally, I’d say—especially if I’m in the gym—I walk around like 150, somewhere around 149 on a good day. If I’m on vacation, I don’t get higher than 155.
[Shannon Sharpe]:
Okay, okay, okay. So, I think that works. I think that’s one of the things that helped Floyd Mayweather, because Floyd’s not a naturally big man. It was easy for him to stay at 147 ‘cause Floyd was only walking around at like 155 to begin with. He’d go for six, eight weeks, lose five pounds—that’s his sweet spot.
[Lamont Roach Jr.]:
For sure, for sure.
[Shannon Sharpe]:
And that’s another thing with you—it’s not like you’re walking around at 160, 165, and you’ve got to strip down 30, 35 pounds. You’re only having to come down 10, maybe 15 pounds at max. That’s not that drastic where you see these guys go through massive dehydration to make weight. Man, you keep fluctuating your weight like that—it takes something out of you.
[Lamont Roach Jr.]:
It definitely takes a toll on you, for sure.
[Shannon Sharpe]:
Hey, listen, after a fight like this, how much time do y’all take off before you get back in and gradually start building yourself back—not only into shape but making sure you don’t lose that rhythm, that consistency?
[Lamont Roach Jr.]:
Oh, it’s tough, man—especially how boxing is today. It’s more of a personal thing. Me, personally, I don’t like being out of the gym too long. I get cussed out by my doctor because he tells me to take a break, you know what I’m saying? And I understand, because your body does need to heal and rest. I’ve been through an eight-week training camp and then went through a hard 12-round fight. So, yeah, you’ve got to get your body together, take some time off. When you peak—and you peak at the right time, and I think I peaked at the perfect time Saturday night—it depletes you. So, I get a little rest—probably like two weeks—then I want to be back in the gym. One, because I probably get too heavy, and I’m like, “I don’t feel right.” I feel bored—I’m normally in the gym, so that’s how it goes.
[Shannon Sharpe]:
Where you live at?
[Lamont Roach Jr.]:
I live in D.C.
[Shannon Sharpe]:
Okay, okay. I’m going to make a little trip down there, man, whenever you get back in the gym and you want to start sparring. I’m going to come down there—
[Chad Ochocinco Johnson]:
I’ve got a bad man, Chad—I don’t know—
[Lamont Roach Jr.]:
I know I’m a bad man too—that’s what my teacher called me when I was in high school—but listen, I’ve got a little bet for you, right? We’re going to do eight rounds. If you can beat me at least four rounds—now, you know LeBron James just scored 50,000 points, right? He sent me the ball. If you can win more rounds than me, I’ll send you this ball he gave me.
[Shannon Sharpe]:
Right now, we’ll set that up—we’re going to set that up for sure. You’re going to take that ball?
[Lamont Roach Jr.]:
Ball’s going in the trophy case, right on top of the belt.
[Chad Ochocinco Johnson]:
Okay, matter of fact, I’m going to make it easy for you—I’m only using my jab hand.
[Lamont Roach Jr.]:
Oh, man, you’re giving me—you’re giving it away now! I mean, listen, I can take what I’m going to do and still win. I told you they call me—
[Chad Ochocinco Johnson]:
You’re giving the prize away—LeBron ain’t going to like that!
[Lamont Roach Jr.]:
Oh, no, you ain’t going to get that. You think I’m going to lose to you and lose that ball?
[Shannon Sharpe]:
The devil is a liar! Hey, let me ask you this, Lamont—after the Tank fight, who would you like to fight? Are you going to stay—if you rematch and beat Tank at 135, are you going to stay at 135, slide back down to 130, or go up to 140?
[Lamont Roach Jr.]:
It depends on what’s available. If the champions at 135 are available, I want to fight them—I want to unify. Obviously, that’s good for my career; those are legacy fights, and on top of that, they’re big money fights. If they’re not available, I’d definitely go defend my title at 130 and probably try to unify there, because I can make 130 comfortably. I feel like I run that division—I probably could even go undisputed if they let me.
[Shannon Sharpe]:
Lamont, being a student of the game, I know you heard from your dad—you weren’t around then, but I know your dad or whoever’s in your corner told you about the Four Kings: Hearns, Hagler, Duran, Leonard—and how they fought each other and all the top contenders. You go back to the ‘70s, look at the heavyweights—they fought. Norton fought Ali, he fought Frazier, he fought Foreman, he fought Shavers—nobody ducked. Why is it now, Lamont, that we have guys who want to cherry-pick and don’t want to take risks? I love Floyd, but Floyd got that 50-0 ‘cause nobody wants to take a beating now. They feel like, “My legacy’s ruined if I lose a fight.” Some of the great fighters—we don’t look at Ali because he lost three or four times, even when he looked bad fighting Trevor Berbick or Larry Holmes. We don’t hold that against him. We don’t hold it against Leonard, Hagler, Hearns—nobody. I hate that. I love Floyd, and I’m glad he’s undefeated, but everybody thinks now, “If I’m undefeated, I’m going to be revered like Floyd,” and it’s not going to happen.
[Lamont Roach Jr.]:
Floyd is a one-of-a-kind fighter, man—in that caliber. Even if a lot of people go undefeated and retire undefeated, it’s not going to be the same. It’s not going to be the same because Floyd put in his work. Floyd fought those guys when he was able to—he fought them. He earned the right to fight who he wanted, when he wanted, whatever the case may be. That’s a once-in-a-lifetime fighter. I don’t know why the guys aren’t—well, maybe I do. I’m going to give you a little scoop: these guys are worried about the money they can make. They think if they still have a zero on their record, a blemish would knock down the value of whatever they have in their contract or whatever’s presented to them, which is crazy to me. I think if you put on a good enough fight, no matter if you win or lose, the performance is what matters—it’s really what matters. People are going to pay to see you fight if you fight the good fights—that’s what they’re going to pay to see. That’s why pay-per-view numbers used to be so high—people wanted to see certain fights. Look at Mickey Ward and Arturo Gotti—that was dramatic. It didn’t matter—people still paid big money to see that because they knew they were going to get action.
[Shannon Sharpe]:
Yeah, Lamont, guys are like, “You know what? If I fought Lamont, I could make 15 million, but if I fight this guy I know I can whip, I can make 10. So why take the chance for an extra five when I can get this can over here and whip him for 10?” So, they’re like, “I’ll just get me five or ten of those 10-million-dollar fights—why would I need to take a risk for two of those big fights? I ain’t going to do that.” But then you’ve got to think about that, Lamont—I told Ocho the other night, we talked about this too—not only do certain people not want to take risks, but you want to build it up until you get to the really, really good fight. If you’ve got the Four Kings back in the day, and today, if all the best boxers fight each other right now—not fight after fight, but actually build it so people want to watch and you can maximize your pay—that’s a little different. Think about how long it took before Earl Spence and Bud Crawford actually fought—look how many fights they had because there was a buildup to it. From that standpoint, I kind of get it—you want to maximize your pay, and nobody wants to lose. But at some point, they’re going to have no choice but to fight each other.
[Chad Ochocinco Johnson]:
But you’ve got to be right—think about it, Lamont, you know this: Sugar Ray went up to 160 to fight Hagler—he definitely did. They went to him—they didn’t come down.
[Shannon Sharpe]:
They talk about guys at 130, 135—they went up two classes. Sugar Ray was 147, went to 160—Hagler. Hearns was 147, went to 160—he’s definitely right about that. That’s middleweight. Ray and Duran started at 135—one of the best lightweights to ever do it.
[Chad Ochocinco Johnson]:
Horse hands—a lot of those guys started—
[Shannon Sharpe]:
Yes, a lot of those guys started at 130, 135—for Floyd, 130, 135, 140, 147, and for De La Hoya at 154.
[Chad Ochocinco Johnson]:
Oh, yeah, a lot of them guys—
[Shannon Sharpe]:
And then you’ve got Pacquiao—an anomaly. Pacquiao started at like 106, 112, and blew through everything—eight-division champion and still knocking them out.
[Chad Ochocinco Johnson]:
You’re not going to see that. Even when you look at Armstrong, all those guys—nobody’s doing this again.
[Shannon Sharpe]:
Yeah, basically, you’d have to start at, say, 140 and go to heavyweight to try to clean out everything, and that’s not happening. Roy Jones was an anomaly—Roy went from 160 to 168, won titles for 10 years straight—middleweight to heavyweight. If Roy had just stayed there and not added the muscle he put on to go to heavyweight—‘cause I think that took a lot out of him—he probably should’ve never come back down or just taken his time. But Roy won the title, couldn’t get nobody else to fight, gave the title up, came back down, and he wasn’t the same after Tarver beat him that one time. He was never the same—‘cause he started getting beat by fighters that Roy would’ve mopped the floor with inside of five rounds.
So, what’s next, Lamont? After this Tank fight, you say you want to fight whoever the big money fight is—who? Lomachenko, Teofimo, Haney, Garcia—whoever’s champs at 135 right now?
[Lamont Roach Jr.]:
Shakur, Keyshawn Davis, and Lomachenko—that’s who we’re going to be looking at after I beat Tank in the rematch. If those guys aren’t available, then we’re going to 130 and defend my 130-pound championship.
[Shannon Sharpe]:
So, listen, out of those three you just named, who would you prefer to fight first if you can’t get all three—if you had a preference?
[Lamont Roach Jr.]:
If I had a preference, I don’t really have one. I’d put a blindfold on and pick whichever one—it don’t matter. I’m talking whoever wants this—tell whoever wants this, “What?” As a matter of fact, I’ll tell you what—Lomachenko, you’re going to get it first. After I get Tank, I’m going to get you at the first of the year. Shakur, I’m going to come see you in July. Keyshawn Davis, at the end of the year or ‘27, I’ve got your a** with me too.
[Shannon Sharpe]:
Sounds good to me—you hear me? Sounds real good. Hey, man, I appreciate it. Congratulations—great fight. It wasn’t the outcome you had hoped for, because you trained for eight weeks, had a great camp, and put the time in to win. It didn’t go your way, but who knows what’s going to happen—July, August—when the next fight comes around. Wish you the best, and guess what? Come back and join us again when the fight happens, and we’ll see what happens after that. Lamont, appreciate it, man.
[Lamont Roach Jr.]:
I appreciate both y’all. All right, bro—I’m going to see you in D.C., no doubt.
[Chad Ochocinco Johnson]:
Yeah, get my contact—we’ll bring you out for sure.
[Shannon Sharpe]:
All right, hey, body him ‘cause he needs to talk, you know?
[Lamont Roach Jr.]:
Yeah, that’s what I want you to do—that’s what I want you here with.
[Chad Ochocinco Johnson]:
Yeah, I’ve got it—I’m going to make sure I record it too. We’ll have it on Night Cap—that’s what I need you to do.
[Shannon Sharpe]:
Record it—all right, all right, all right. Man, appreciate that, Lamont—have a good one.
[Lamont Roach Jr.]:
Thank y’all, man.”
A lot to go through there.
Great mentality as always from Lamont Roach — it is great to see his deserved recognition has now come after last weekend.
The right hand did work down the middle as mentioned above against southpaw Davis — it will be interesting to see what adjustments Davis will look to make in the rematch.
Both want the immediate rematch quickly, which, makes a lot of sense too.
It is what boxing fans want and what the boxers themselves want so as there is no injuries, rolling it back in part two in New York again makes a pile of sense.
The world of boxing and indeed outside of boxing now knows about Lamont Roach after a hell of a fight last weekend.
Well deserved.
The rematch is much bigger now and one gets the impression that Gervonta Davis will be highly motivated too.
A recipe for maybe an even better fight as well.
