WBA lightweight champion Gervonta “Tank” Davis (30-0, 28 KOs) rallied to score a come from behind 8th round knockout win over previously unbeaten Frank “The Ghost” Martin (18-1, 12 KOs) in their headliner on PBC on Prime Video PPV on Saturday night at the MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas.
Martin outclassed Tank Davis through the first six rounds, making him look bad. In the eighth, Tank connected with a big left hand that knocked Martin out. The contest was then halted. The time of the stoppage was at the 1:29 mark.
Undercard results:
David Benavidez (29-0, 24 KOs) got off to a winning track in his debut at light heavyweight, defeating former WBC 175-lb champion Oleksandr Gvozdyk (20-2, 16 KOs) by a lopsided 12-round unanimous decision. The scores were:
– 116-112
– 117-111
– 119-109
Benavidez faded after six rounds and was dominated in rounds 7-12 by Gvozdyk, the busier fighter of the two. The fight should have been a draw, but the judges scored it for the star.
Alberto Puello (23-0, 10 KOs) beat Gary Antuanne Russell (17-1, 17 KOs) by a 12 round split decision to win the WBC interim light welterweight title. The scores were 118-109 for Antuanne Russell, 115-112, and 114-113 for Puello.
It was interesting how the judge that had it for Russell could have had it so wide because it was a close fight, and Puello got the better of the action with his superior boxing skills. Russell, who came into the fight unbeaten, got exposed tonight.
Making his first defense of his WBC middleweight title, champion Carlos Adames (24-1, 18 KOs) outslugged the light-hitting veteran Terrell Gausha (24-4-1, 12 KOs) to win a 12-round unanimous decision. The judges’ scores were 119-109, 118-110 and 118-110.
Gausha was at his best early, landing a lot of jabs and right hands, but without much power behind them.
Adames started picking up steam from the sixth round, connecting with hard single shots to dominate the action in the second half. He was missing many punches but still connected enough to get a clear decision.
Super middleweight Kyrone Davis (18-3-1, 6 KOs) pulled off an upset ten-round split decision win over Elijah Garcia (16-1, 13 KOs) in a fight that could have gone the other way.
The 21-year-old Garcia was the busier fighter of the two, landing the bigger, better shots against a very looking Kyrone. The scores were 99-93, 97-93 for Davis, and 98-92 for Garcia. This writer had Elijah winning the fight eight rounds to two.
