Tank Davis knocks off Frank Martin in the seventh round. The guy's good, he's so good at timing you and calculating throughout the fight, adjusting to all the mistakes or even just the rhythm of the opponent. Frank Martin was doing very well for the first few rounds, probably won the first three. He was fighting well off the jab, he was backing up, escaping the ropes a lot better than he was later.
Now Frank Martin's rhythm and the way he was tuning was not changing, and that's what ultimately caused him to lose the fight. Javante will have a slower start, but he's so good at adjusting mid-fight. You saw this against Ryan Garcia, you saw against so many of his previous opponents, and when the opponent is not changing anything up, he's fighting so similarly in every single round, Javante is eventually going to knock you out.
Frank Martin was fighting very well off of his jab, but he constantly was getting backed up to the ropes and looking to exit out to his own right. Sometimes he would jab his way out of there or probe his lead hand forward just to push Dante off of him, but Dante's pressure got stronger throughout the fight. Early on, when this was working for Frank Martin, Javante was letting off of the pressure a lot of times until he knew to cut off Frank Martin, fight behind his guard, keep his hands up high and get busier with his hands.
Frank Martin only made very little adjustments, which made it so much easier for Javante Davis to set him up for the knockout, because Tank Davis was downloading the data, start to cut him off a lot better, using good probes off of his lead hand. He's like extending that lead hand forward to see the reactions out of Frank Martin, and what he noticed was that Frank Martin was constantly pulling his body away and getting to a Philly shell.
If Javante was going to probe forward, Frank Martin would pick up his guard, cover up, and there'd be openings through the center or around the side. So Javante Davis is doing a very good job of looking at the openings depending on the stance he takes in front of him. The lead hand probe is an initiator of some kind of an attack, right? So the left hand from Javante Davis is going to be quite threatening from that position, and Frank Martin wants to lean away, so it's going to cause a bit of a different opening for Javante Davis.
Frank Martin was going to expect the left hand to come in, that kind of stance, he could move away from it, block it and counter back. He could do a lot of different things from that Philly shell. But Javante knew because of the anticipation of the left hand, he caught Frank Martin when he started leaning forward instead.
Notice here, he's leaning forward in front of Frank Martin, and Martin has his left hand up guarding his left side specifically, because look how Javante is leaning slightly to his own right while also leaning forward, he's showing that left shoulder, but also cocking back his right, which will allow him to generate more power into a right hook, which is exactly what Frank Martin is anticipating. But Javante still throws the punch, he uses that to set up a combination, whereas Frank Martin thought that it was going to be like a knockout blow.
So he goes to guard it, the punch misses, goes right in front of Frank Martin's face, and what that does is it causes Frank Martin's guard to open up away from the center. He's splitting the guard open wide, creating a target up the center, that's where Javante Davis knows to land his uppercut, upward through the center, which is actually something he did earlier in the fight.
Notice how Frank Martin again was backed up to the ropes, Javante did a very good job of putting good pressure on him, keeping him on the ropes as much as possible, and he sees the opening up the center and throws the bolo style uppercut, a swooping uppercut that's entirely offensive. When you're throwing an uppercut this way, you're bringing your hand away from your face, exposing that left side of yourself. In Javante Davis' stance, he is Southpaw, that could get him caught, but he was so confident because Frank Martin wasn't really countering that much when he was backed up to the ropes.
In the finishing sequence, he sets that off of his right hook, throws the uppercut, catches him, and that's the punch that rocks Frank Martin. Any punch after this was pretty much open for Javante Davis to land, but he backs the most powerful punch he can throw. Frank Martin does not see the punch whatsoever, he's completely rocked, and notice how he's also looking slightly to his own left away from the left hand that's coming to his jaw. The punches you don't see hurt the most, and that is how Frank Martin gets knocked out.
Excellent knockout for Javante Davis, a very good finish. He is so incredibly skilled to be able to calculate and download the data so well against Frank Martin, even losing the early rounds, to adjust, bounce back and find the knockout. Beautiful stuff from Javante Davis
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