Keyshawn Davis said he can fight at welterweight now because he’s big enough, but he wants to stay at 135 to capture and then unify the WBO belt from Denys Berinchyk. 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 can now move up to welterweight because he is the size of Jaron ‘Boots’ Ennis. Rather, he will continue to melt down to 135 to have a size advantage over his opponent. Davis is like Haney 2.0. with him being way too big to fight at lightweight.
It’s a mistake for Keyshawn to talk about what he’s going to do after Berinchyk, assuming he’ll win and that unification fights will follow. Davis created a make-believe world in his head. His feet are not planted on the ground.
He doesn’t 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 on the unification fights it wants. He doesn’t want to fight his partner, Shakur, and he can forget about Gervonta Davis and Vasily Lomachenkof fighting him. He is a nobody to them.
If Keyshawn was brave, he could fight his four-time victor, Andy Cruzif he gets hold of the WBO belt. Cruz already said last week that he is pulling for him to beat Berinchyk so that he can take the belt from him afterwards.
Davis wants nothing to do with Cruz because he will school him for a fifth time and make Top Rank regret signing him after his loss to the Cuban in the 2020 Olympics.
Can Keyshawn cut it at 147?
“I don’t have to stay at 135. I’m bigger than Shakur. Shakur is probably lurking at 135. My peak is at 147. This is just the beginning. 135 is just the beginning,” Keyshawn Davis said MillCity Boxingsounds like the beginning of a breakup with his friend, Shakur Stevenson,
“There are fights out there. I don’t need to fight Shakur, but I would like to unite after beating Berinchyk with one of the champions. We will see. I want to fight. I am the young gunner. i wanna fight everybody (except Andy Cruz). After I get my belt, of course I want to unify with one of the champions, except for Stevenson.
“I’m not going to be at 135 much longer. As long as I want to be here,” Keyshawn said when asked how much longer he wants to stay at lightweight. “I weigh 144 now. I’m not really a 140 pounder, but I have the size and strength to do it.
Of course, Keyshawn doesn’t have to stay at 135, but we know he will, because life will be brutal and difficult when he moves up to where he has to fight the killers in the welterweight division. Without Keyshawn’s size advantage, he’s nowhere. Fighters like Karen Chukhadzhian would pick him apart and wipe him out before he could fight Boots.
“He’s going to 147 for one reason, because I’m on his a**,” Davis said of WBO light welterweight champion Teofimo Lopez, who is moving up to 147 because he’s apparently running away from him.
