ON a day when the President of the United States flung scabrous shots at the city of Baltimore, Maryland, calling it, via Twitter, the “worst in the USA” and “a disgusting, rat and rodent-infested mess,” one of its homegrown talents gave the locals something to cheer.
Inside a roiling Royal Farms Arena, Gervonta Davis, the native son of West Baltimore, made a successful second defence of his WBA super-featherweight title (set for 12), bludgeoning virtual unknown Ricardo Nunez of Panama with thunderous left hands until referee Harvey Dock intervened at 1-33 of the second round.