Davis has been fattening up on easy opponents for too long.
NEW YORK – Gervonta “Tank” Davis is a box office star, a fact reinforced Saturday when 18,970 customers—“Paying customers,” noted Mayweather Promotions CEO Leonard Ellerbe—crammed into Barclays Center to watch Davis flatten Rolando Romero by sixth-round knockout. Madonna was there. Tracy Morgan, too. Notable fighters from Errol Spence Jr. to Shakur Stevenson made the trip. It was the highest grossing boxing event in the building’s 10-year history—event organizers anticipate the gate revenue to approach $5 million—and irrefutable evidence that Davis, who has already packed houses in Baltimore, Atlanta and L.