Tevin Farmer v Gervonta Davis

Promoters need to work together to make fights not bash each other in the press. The biggest fight to make at 130 pounds is between IBF super featherweight champion Tevin Farmer and WBA (super) titlist Gervonta Davis. Offers have been made to Farmer for $2 million by Davis promoter Leonard Ellerbe, and Davis wasn't interested in the $5 million proposal by Farmer promoter Eddie Hearn.

Instead of trying to make a deal, Hearn and Ellerbe have decided to go the high school route and make verbal jabs through the media instead of trying to make the highly anticipated affair.

"Pretty poor," Hearn said to FightHype on communication with Ellerbe and Floyd Mayweather Jr. to make the Davis-Farmer fight. "I always email Leonard Ellerbe and say ‘Here’s $3 million, here’s $4 million, here’s $5 million’ and I don’t really get replies. I got one reply, once. Leonard Ellerbe has turned into quite a bitter man. Right?

Because I look at my Twitter, he’s liking all the criticism about me! He calls it the ‘Dead Zone.’ What Leonard Ellerbe has become is a hater. He’s always talked about haters and how bad they are. Why would Leonard Ellerbe hate on a platform that is giving fighters the opportunity to make fighters the highest paydays, to box more often then they’ve ever boxed before? Leonard Ellerbe should know better."

Ellerbe retorted to Fighthype: "Hate on what? Let me get this straight — he had what he claimed to be the number one heavyweight who supposedly had the most traction at the time, brought him to America for a debut, put him in a short-notice fight he shouldn't have never been in fighting a guy like Andy Ruiz, who has tremendous skills and just came off of a fight, got him beat, and now he's the number four guy.

"What is there to hate on? Bob Arum just outmaneuvered him; took his champ [Jose Ramirez] and tricked Eddie out of several million dollars in a fight [vs. Maurice Hooker] that he knew he couldn't lose. Now, Bob returns back to ESPN laughing with the belt and the bag of money in hand, but I'm a hater? Yeah, OK; yeah right!

"Eddie's a good promoter who likes to hear himself talk, but a lot of the s—t he talks about doesn't even make any sense. Everybody's laughing at him."

While the back-and-forth exchanges make for good headlines, they don't get fans any closer to the fight they want to see. All the bickering does is hurt the chances of a Davis-Farmer battle.

Let the fighters do the talking inside the ring, while the promoters handle business behind the scenes.

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They are trying to turn Davis into a PPV fighter so there is no chance they will put him on an app nobody has. He needs exposure. 5 million now that costs you millions later is bad business. Make the fight where people will see it. Nobody cares about Farmer except his beef with Tank, nobody will watch Farmer unless he is fighting Tank. Tank is the guy everyone is calling for because he is in demand. Acknowledge this simple FACT and negotiate accordingly. Or don’t bother us with talk.

Farmer vs Tank is only good because of their feud. Farmer has been winning, but his competition hasn’t been anything extraordinary. To me, Berchelt is the top guy at 130. He is the one people should be gunning for.

Top guys need to be tested by like minded fighters and to date both are lacking there. They need each other and agree Berchelt is the 800 lb gorilla in the room that deserves to be right next to them. Farmer feels like he's in idle mode, very solid talent but he'd do better riding more Canelo undercards than headlining vs anonymous Frenchmen when it comes to exposure. Davis honestly is tons of talent yet to be fully realized. Some is his own doing outside the ring and he is also just hammering late sub nails and unknown mandatories fresh out of a witness protection program. Shame really, it could be a nice unification scrap.