Keyshawn Davis said he can fight at light heavyweight right now because he is big enough, but wants to stay at 135 to take the WBO belt from Denys Berinchyk and then unify. Davis (12-0, 8 KOs) could lose to Berinchyk (19-0, 9 KOs) and be left high and dry.
Next month, Keyshawn fights WBO lightweight champion Berinchyk on February 14 at the Theater at Madison Square Garcia. The event will be shown on ESPN+.
Too big for 135?
Keyshawn could move up to welterweight right now because he’s as big as Jaron ‘Boots’ Ennis. He would rather continue to melt down at 135 to have a size advantage over his opponent. Davis is like Haney 2.0. with the fact that he is too big to fight in the lightweight category.
It’s wrong for Keyshawn to talk about what he’s going to do after Berinchyk, assuming he’ll win and unification fights will follow. Davis created a fake world in his head. His feet are not on the ground.
He does not see reality. The reality is that Keyshawn could lose that fight because he’s flawed, and even if he wins, Top Rank won’t be able to put together the unification fights he’d like. He doesn’t want to fight his friend, Shakur, and he can forget that Gervonta Davis and Vasily Lomachenkof are fighting him. He is nobody to them.
If Keyshawn was brave, he could fight his four-time conqueror, Andy Cruzif he gets his hands on the WBO belt. Cruz already said last week that he was rooting for him to beat Berinchyk so he could take the belt from him afterwards.
Davis wants nothing to do with Cruz because he would school him a fifth time and make Top Rank regret signing him after losing to the Cuban at the 2020 Olympics.
Can Keyshawn cut to 147?
“I don’t have to stay at 135. I’m bigger than Shakur. Shakur probably peeks at 135. My peak is at 147. This is just the beginning. 135 is just the beginning,” Keyshawn Davis told the MillCity boxingsounds like the beginning of a rift with his friend Shakur Stevenson,
“There are fights there. I don’t need to fight Shakur, but I would like to team up after beating Berinchyk with one of the champions. We’ll see. I want to fight. I am a young shooter. I want to fight everyone [except Andy Cruz]. After I get my belt, of course, I want to unify with one of the champions, other than Stevenson.
“I won’t be at 135 much longer. As long as I want to be here,” Keyshawn said when asked how long he wants to stay at lightweight. “Right now I’m 144. I’m not really 140 pounds, but I have the size and strength for it.
Of course, Keyshawn doesn’t have to stay at 135, but we know he will because life would be brutal and hard if he moved up to where he’s supposed to fight at welterweight against the killers there. Without Keyshawn’s size advantage, he’s nowhere. Fighters like Karen Chukhadzhian would pick him apart, knock him out before he could fight Boots.
“He’s going to 147 for one reason because I’m on his **,” Davis said of WBO welterweight champion Teofimo Lopez moving to 147 because he’s reportedly running away from him.
