10 Things You Didn’t Know About Ohara Davies

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Who is Ohara Davies? Facts you need to know below

1. Born in Hackney on February 8, 1992, Ohara had a tumultuous childhood that saw his parents split when he was only six-years-old, and he was subsequently put into care with his siblings when his dad walked out and his mum was admitted to hospital with mental illness. When they were placed into foster care, he was put into a house with one brother, but heartbreakingly split from his older brother and sister. Eventually they were all reunited in the same house with a nice family, but that was after being moved around eight different homes in the space of a few years all over London, Dagenham and as far as Croydon. At one point, he had no contact with his brother and sister for six months, and none of the four children had seen their poorly mum for years.

2. Once his older brother was entrusted to look after their mum, the fragmented family were allowed to return home again to Homerton, a suburb of Hackney, where Ohara spent all his time on the rough Kingsmead council estate, where he quickly fell in with criminal gangs, and admits to selling drugs and robbing innocent people.

3. It wasn’t long before 16-year-old Ohara ended up in Crown Court on an attempted murder charge – someone was stabbed close to his heart, but Davies was found not guilty. He also pleaded guilty to selling Class A drugs on a seperate case, but managed to avoid jail time, instead receiving Community Service and having to attend youth offending teams.

4. He boasts an amateur record of 18-0, but never really felt comfortable with the amateur style. He said so himself, “I always had a style more suited to the pro game. I got told plenty of times in the gym that I’ve got more of a pro style, so when I did finally decide to turn over, I didn’t really have to make any adjustments.”

5. Former amateur coach and long-standing friend, Tony Cesay, is the man attributed to discovering Ohara Davies and teaching him from the very beginning of his boxing journey at a local youth club. Since then, he has been trained by Anthony Yarde’s mentor, Tunde Ajayi; Tony Sims when he joined Matchroom Boxing; Carlos Moreno; and, most recently, Angel Fernandez. Ohara still trains with Tony Cesay from time to time and counts his lifelong mentor as: “the closest thing I’ve ever had to a father figure.”

6. Between 2014-2018, he was signed to Eddie Hearn’s behemoth that is Matchroom Boxing, but it all came crashing down following a controversial comment made on social media on December 29, 2017, about the city of Liverpool when engaged in a war of words with Tommy Coyle. He mistakenly goaded that he would give his “favourite newspaper” the first interview after he beat, referring to ‘The Sun’, which is infamously banned from the city following the Hillsborough tragedy. He said of the incident, “Charlie Sims, my manager at the time, sent me a text: ‘Tommy Coyle sent out a tweet saying he’s looking to get a fight, so why don’t you call him out, try and say something that’s gonna provoke him?’”, which he obviously did. Ohara then professed his innocence in the matter, “I remember Coyle said in a tweet that he doesn’t like ‘The Sun’ because they exposed that he employed criminals to work with kids in his gym. But, to be honest, I’d never heard of Hillsborough, and I’ve said it time and time again. I Googled it but still didn’t get the connection.”

7. Ohara felt that he had been “thrown under the bus” and couldn’t trust Charlie Sims after that had occurred. He split with the Sims, then tried to continue working with Eddie Hearn, but didn’t get a response back from his messages, so MTK arranged for talks with promoter allegedly. It was only then that Hearn got in touch with Ohara, who felt it was too little, too late, and signed terms with Warren’s Queensberry Promotions.

8. Within 19 professional contests, he had collected an English lightweight title; WBC Silver and WBC International; and WBA International super-lightweight straps.

9. He has currently defeated 21 opponents, knocking out 16 of them, with a combined record of 286-143-9, and is currently ranked #13 in the IBO World rankings; #5 in BoxRec's British rankings and #18 in their World rankings. His two defeats were at the hands of 22-0 Jack Catterall, now ranked no.4 in the world with the WBO; and 9-0 Josh Taylor, who went on to become a unified World super-lightweight champion.

10. Ohara is already looking to a life outside of boxing, with ambitions to be involved in property investment.

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11. He is close friends with Tyan Booth.

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12. His nickname within boxing is ‘The Black Quitter’.

[Delta Jay]

I can tell you one thing I do know about him.

[Glass Joe]

13. He thought he easily beat Jack Catterall even after throwing 6 punches a round.

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14. His favourite holiday destination is Spain, and he often pops there quickly.

[margaret thatcher]

He is like a poor man's Broner

And another boxer living dat property investment dream

[MightyWarrior]

That’s a pretty weird press release but fair play to Davies, he’s obviously trying to reinvent himself here, because he gets a lot of bad press.

People are always hitting him over the head with bailing out in the Taylor fight, but so what if he talked a good game before the fight ?
it’s more interesting than the thousands of dull boxers who just turn up for a paycheque and a just glad to be here attitude.

He tried his heart out in the Taylor fight and had the almighty shock of coming up against a fighter who would turn out to be pound for pound one of the best in the world - there is no shame there - give the guy a break.

[TheLeprechaun]

12. His nickname within boxing is ‘The Black Quitter’.

[fizzjambo]

That’s a pretty weird press release but fair play to Davies, he’s obviously trying to reinvent himself here, because he gets a lot of bad press.

People are always hitting him over the head with bailing out in the Taylor fight, but so what if he talked a good game before the fight ?
it’s more interesting than the thousands of dull boxers who just turn up for a paycheque and a just glad to be here attitude.

He tried his heart out in the Taylor fight and had the almighty shock of coming up against a fighter who would turn out to be pound for pound one of the best in the world - there is no shame there - give the guy a break.

If you give it you have to take it. Davies has brought most of his problems upon himself

[brilo33]

is he fighting tyrone mckenna

[brilo33]

kingsland rd boi aint he . thats why i give him the time of the day

[Ruthless-RKO]

is he fighting tyrone mckenna

Yeh.

[Noxy]

I don’t mind Davies, he used to stir it - so what. He‘s also changed as he‘s become more savvy along the way. He‘s a good fighter and all.

[margaret thatcher]

Ya, so what if he gets stick when he tries to give it . I remember when he had a hissy fit meltdown because his apparent former mentor Spen Fearon just offered some constructive criticism. He obviously is very sensitive and insecure. He's a solid fighter though, somewhere between Jack Cat and Tyrone

[Boxerbeetle]

I thought it was pretty disgusting how Hearn threw him under the bus over The Sun incident. It was obvious Davies didn’t have a clue about the history of it all, he should have been educated properly instead of just having his fight pulled, especially given the scumbags Hearn is usually more than happy to work with.

[Noxy]

I thought it was pretty disgusting how Hearn threw him under the bus over The Sun incident. It was obvious Davies didn’t have a clue about the history of it all, he should have been educated properly instead of just having his fight pulled, especially given the scumbags Hearn is usually more than happy to work with.

Aye, I thought that was poor form as well.

[margaret thatcher]

Day threw him unda da bus