Baltimore, MD's Gervonta "Tank" Davis won his third world championship with a 12th-round TKO over former champion Yuriorkis "El Ciclon De Guantanamo" Gamboa of Miami, FL by way of Cuba on Saturday in front of 14,000 people at the State Farm Arena in Atlanta, GA.
In the second round, Davis would drop Gamboa. When Gamboa recovered, something seemed to be wrong with his foot and his shoe, which broke. Davis would knock down Gamboa again in the eighth round but Gamboa, who later said he may have ruptured his Achilles tendon, kept coming.
Finally, in the 12th round, the two would go toe-to-toe before Davis would knock down Gamboa for the third and final time. Referee Jack Reiss stopped the bout immediately afterward. The time of the stoppage was 1:17.
With the win, Davis captured the vacant WBA Lightweight championship to go with the IBF and WBA Super Featherweight titles he held earlier. Davis went farther in this bout than any in his career and scored his 14th consecutive knockout. Davis is now 23-0, 22 KO's. Gamboa is now 30-3, 18 KO's.
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