When Tank Fought A Much TALLER Fighter : Gervonta Tank Davis vs Mario Barrios Full Fight Highlights

Gervonta Davis has scored an 11th round knockout win over Mario Barrios to claim the WBA (regular) super lightweight world title in Atlanta. The win sees Davis become the ninth fighter to win world titles at super feather, light and super lightweight. One of boxing’s fastest rising stars, Davis knocked Barrios down twice in the eighth round but couldn’t land the knockout blow. It took a vicious body shot in the 11th for the Baltimore native to land the TKO victory. Gervonta Davis climbed to the top rope, jumped back and backflipped toward the center of the ring. The sellout crowd inside the State Farm Arena, cellphones up to record the occasion, roared. It had been more intermittent cheers throughout the 10 rounds prior, when Davis was in a much more difficult fight than anticipated with WBA “regular“ junior welterweight champion Mario Barrios. Barrios, who is 5-foot-10, used his height and reach advantage to keep the 5-foot-5 Davis at bay. But in the 11th round, it didn’t matter. Davis knocked Barrios down for the third time and was about to do so for the fourth time when referee Thomas Taylor stepped in to stop the fight to give Davis another win in another weight class along with the WBA “regular“ title. “It was basically me just trying to figure him out and see what he do good,“ Davis said. “That’s what I was doing. I was basically trying to figure him out. I didn’t want to overdo it and wind up getting caught because I didn’t know what he was bringing. “So basically, I didn’t get him out of there because of myself early. That’s basically what it was.“ Davis was up on all three scorecards before the knockout: 96-92, 97-91 and 96-92. After the fight, Davis said he couldn’t yet be compared to other multidivision titlists of the past, including his promoter, Floyd Mayweather, who said to Showtime after the fight that Davis has the potential to be among the greats. Davis (25-0, 24 KO) appeared to need a few rounds to figure out Barrios’ height in his 140-pound debut after previously fighting at 130 and 135 pounds. Before Saturday’s fight, Davis told ESPN it might take a little bit of time for him to adjust to the weight class -- much like it did the first time he fought at 135 pounds.