Keyshawn Davis captured the WBO lightweight belt of fellow-top fighter Denys Berincyk last Friday night, but he is no better than the man he replaced as the belt holder in terms of the dream fights against Gerrvonta Davis and Vasily Lomachenko what happened not.
The cruz challenge
Let’s make it clear: KeyShawn is not fighting Tank Davis, next year or the year after. It doesn’t happen. He and the top rankings need the pipe dream and focus on reality. The battle available to Keyshawn is the Cuban Phenom andy Cruz, the man who beat him four times and called him out since he became professional.
If Top Rank Believe in Keyshawn, they have to match Andy to promote his career. If he is the right 24k gold, he will beat Cruz and prove to the boxing world that he has developed, as he is regularly beaten by him in the amateurs. But if KeyShawn loses, that’s what I expect to happen, he will always deceive gold and just be the Edgar Berlanga type that the top ranking is a fake star.
Keyshawn has not yet fought anyone talented. Indeed, all the fighters he hit in his professional career of 13 battles would lose these three:
– Abdullah Mason
– Andy Cruz
– Raymond Muratalla
There is no one on Keyshawn’s resume as a pro that the three would not beat and look better. Even Davis’s own brother, Keon Davis, would all knock on his resume. If you fought the 13 guys who fought Keyshawn for Keon, Mason, Cruz and Muratalla, it would also be for their victories.
To win the WBO title, Keyshawn (13-0, 9 COs) makes one of the many belt containers in the sport, without any real options for mega fighters. It is worse for Keyshawn, 25, because he is getting bigger and is already a middle weight in appearance.
Weight bullying Cannot remain artificial in sections that are forever under their size without catching them. Keyshawn will not be able to keep playing forever, hoping that he can stay on the lightweight long enough to get the cash out against Tank Davis. You can’t make a career out of chase. Keyshawn must remain silent about Davis and focus on developing his career on his own merits.
Tank did not use the name of the name to become the star he is. He did this by performing at the highest levels again and again. He also did not drain three divisions to fight smaller guys. If he does the same, Keyshawn is now, he would compete his entire career against Super Bantamweight.
For fighters using weight manipulation to capture belts, the success is briefly because it is impossible to stay in a section that is three weight classes below your physical size.
“I thought Raymond Muratalla was about to fight in a kind (IBF lightweight title) Eliminator (against Zaur Abdullaev on May 15) to put himself in position. There is an opportunity if he wins (for Keyshawn to fight against him). There is an opportunity to unite the titles. Why don’t you do this? “Tim Bradley said Top rank box about the newly crowned WBO lightweight champion Keyshawn Davis to fight Raymond Muratalla as he captures the vacant IBF 135-pound belt.
‘Two young guns. You don’t have to wait and make it market too much, and he (Keyshawn) wins another title there. It could attract a tank fight, ”says Bradley, assuming that Keyshawn Muratalla would beat or continue to make weight for the division.
“This is the tank that does the pick. Tank is not going to wait for Muratalla or something similar, ‘says Mark Krieigel. “Tank would be the favorite (about Keyshawn if they fight). We know more about him. He is more established, he is longer time, and he is a bigger star and he is a big fighter.
“Tank never showed any desire to fight Devin Haney and Theofimo. Where is he going? I think the logical place is Keyshawn, ”says Kriegel.
Tanks are not interested
If tank didn’t want to fight against Haney or Theofimo, why does Kriegel think, then he wants to fight a massive middleweight-sized Keyshawn Davis? He can’t be serious. Tank doesn’t want to fight against a middleweight, and he doesn’t have to.
Keyshawn should be where he belongs at 160, and fights against Janibek Alimkhanuly and Hamzah Sheeraz. If he is as good as Top Rank thinks he is, he should have no trouble beating Janibek and Hamzah.
“From what you see with your eyes. I didn’t think he (KeyShawn) was going to stop Bernchyk until I saw the first round, and I saw the body shooting, ”says Bradley.
“It was really difficult for Keyshawn to do what he did tonight, because he went up against a junk ball. He figured it out, he resolved it, and he quickly put the lights out, ”says Kriegel, and Davis glaze.
“What impressed me was the physical power of Keyshawn with the way he could control the battle. He never allowed Berinchyk to get into his game, and that was the difference, ”Bernardo Osuna said.
“He (Keyshawn) says, ‘I want Gevonta’ Tank ‘Davis. This is the name he called, even when he was in Norfolk, Virginia (for his fight against Gustavo Lemos last November). I think it’s a fight if he keeps fighting as he did tonight unless Tank Davis decides he’s going to retire, ”says Osuna, who sounds naive about how poor Keyshawn’s opponents were and how sampling he is big for the lightweight – section.
This is a race by the time for Keyshawn and Top Rank, because they have to get the Mega fight against Tank Davis almost immediately, because he can’t continue to compete from the middleweight to compete at 135.
If Tank prefers not to fight Keyshawn soon, he will not be able to make 135, and he will have to move up to 154 or 160, where he should be now. Keyshawn won’t keep long -standing guys his size. He goes well, as long as he is at 135 and fights with smaller guys, but on the middleweight his career is not over.
Last updated on 02/16/2025
