Keyshawn Davis said he can fight at welterweight now because he’s big enough, but he wants to stay at 135 to capture the WBO belt from Denys Berinchyk and then unify. Davis (12-0, 8 KOs) can lose to Berinchyk (19-0, 9 KOs) and be left high and dry.
Next month, Keyshawn will fight WBO Lightweight Champion Berinchyk on February 14 at the Madison Square Garcia Theatre. The event will be shown on ESPN+.
Too big for 135?
Keyshawn could move up to welterweight now because he’s as big as Jaron ‘Boots’ Ennis. He prefers to continue bottoming out at 135 to have a size advantage over his opponent. Davis is like Haney 2.0. with him being too big to be fought at lightweight.
It is a mistake for Keyshawn to talk about what he will do after Berinchyk, assuming he will win and unification fights will follow. Davis created an imaginary world in his head. His feet are not planted on the ground.
You don’t see reality. The reality is that Keyshawn may lose that fight because he’s flawed, and even if he wins, Top Rank won’t be able to put him in the unification fight he wanted. He doesn’t want to fight his friend, Shakur, and he can forget about Gervonta Davis and Vasily Lomachenkof fighting. He is a 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 is pulling for him to beat Berinchyk so he can take the belt from him later.
Davis wants nothing to do with Cruz because he has schooled him for the fifth time and made Top Rank regret signing him after his loss to the Cuban in the 2020 Olympics.
Can Keyshawn Cut It At 147?
“I’m not going 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,” said Keyshawn Davis MillCity Boxingwhich sounds like the beginning of a rift with his friend, Shakur Stevenson,
“There are fights out there. I won’t fight Shakur, but I would like to unify after beating Berinchyk with one of the champions. We’ll see. I want to fight. I’m the young gunner. I want to fight everyone (except Andy Cruz). After having my belt, of course, I want to unify with one of the champions, except for Stevenson.
“I’m not going to be at 135 for too much longer. As long as I want to be there,” Keyshawn said when asked how much longer he wants to stay at lightweight. “I weigh 144 now. I’m not really a 140-pounder, to be honest, but I’ve got the size and the strength to do this.
Of course, Keyshawn doesn’t have to stay at 135, but we know he has to because life would be brutal and hard if he moved up to where he had to fight in the welterweight division against the killers up there. Without Keyshawn’s size advantage, it’s nothing. Fighters like Karen Chukhadzhian would tear him apart, knocking him out before he could fight Boots.
“He’s going to 147 for a reason because I’m in his a**,” Davis said of WBO welterweight champion Teofimo Lopez moving to 147 because he’s allegedly running away from him.
