Gervonta Davis decided at the last minute to skip the grand arrivals for his fight against Frank Martin in Las Vegas, prompting concern that it would go ahead.
The Baltimore puncher is scheduled to put his WBA Lightweight World title on the line this coming Saturday against undefeated Martin – his first outing since a statement win over Ryan Garcia in 2023.
The PBC fight week didn’t get off to a great start when ‘Tank’ took to social media to announce that he was displeased with the promotion and therefore wouldn’t be showing face
“The promotion for this fight been ass. Now watch [I don’t] show up to the arrivals s**t today.”
Fans in attendance were indeed let down, and some then questioned what to expect for the rest of the week’s events in the lead-up to fight night
Speaking to FightHype, Davis’ coach Calvin Ford urged people not to read in to the no-show too much.
“How long y’all been knowing Tank man? I used to do the same thing y’all do. I stopped doing it. Let him just do what he do because at the end of the day that’s what makes Tank … I don’t know how his body is. You know sometimes y’all gotta go to work, do y’all feel like it all the time? We getting ready for the roll out to the world.”
Asked if he would make the press conference, Ford was optimistic.
“I’ve never seen Tank missing a press conference. Let’s look at history, let’s look at the stats.”
Davis – who was spotted out on a run in Vegas at the time of the Grand Arrivals – headlines the card against Martin this Saturday with the intriguing co-main event of David Benavidez stepping up to light-heavyweight for a WBC Interim title shot against Ukraine’s Oleksandr Gvozdyk.
