“I begged Mr. Gervonta Davis; I looked him in his eyes,” Smith said. “I said, ‘I have to get home to my daughter, I’m pregnant.’ He never once came over to help me.”
Boxing Put On Hold For Tank
On April 22 in Las Vegas, Davis defeated Ryan Garcia by sixth-round knockout in a highly anticipated fight. It sold over one million pay-per-views and earned the fifth-highest all-time gate for a Las Vegas fight. In the streaming era, it’s a significant accomplishment.
Today’s sentence is light enough to have virtually no effect from a practical standpoint for Tank Davis. He wasn’t likely to get back in the ring before fall 2023, despite the relatively easy victory.
Ironically, Davis’s mentor, Floyd Mayweather, offers a template for Davis’s current circumstances.
Mayweather served 60 days of a 90-day sentence in 2012 in the Clark County (Nevada) Jail on a domestic violence conviction. He negotiated a delay in his surrender to serve his time until after his August fight with then-WBA Super Welterweight champion Miguel Cotto. The fight was considered so critically important to the Las Vegas economy, the judge permitted the delay.
