Keyshawn Davis said he can fight at welterweight right now because he's big enough, but he wants to stay at 135 to get 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, Keshawn will face WBO lightweight champion Perincek on February 14 at the Madison Square Garcia Arena. 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 melting down to 135 to have a size advantage over his opponent. Davis is like Haney 2.0. Although he is too old to fight at lightweight.
It is a mistake for Kishon to talk about what he will do after Perincek, assuming that he will be victorious and that unification battles will follow him. Davis has created a fantasy world inside his head. His feet are not planted on the ground.
He does not see reality. The reality is that Keyshawn might lose that fight because he's flawed, and even if he wins, Top Rank won't be able to get the unification fights he wants. He doesn't want to fight his friend Shakur, and he can forget about Gervonta Davis and Vasiliy Lomachenkov fighting him. He is nobody to them.
If Kishun is brave, he can fight his conqueror four times; Andy CruzIf he gets his hands on the WBO belt. Cruz actually said last week that he's rooting for him to beat Perinchik so he can take the belt from him next.
Davis doesn't want to have anything to do with Cruz because he will teach him for the fifth time and make Top Rank regret hiring him after losing 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 peeking at 135. My peak is 147. This is just the beginning. 135 is just the beginning,” Keshawn Davis said. Mill City BoxingIt seems like the beginning of a dispute with his friend, Shakur Stevenson,
“There are fights out there. I don't have to fight Shakur, but I would love to unite after I beat Perincek with one of the champions. We'll see. I want to fight. I'm the young gunner. I want to fight everyone (Except for Andy Cruz). After I get the belt, of course, I want to unite with one of the champions, except for Stevenson.
“I'm not going to stay at 135 for much longer. As long as I want to be here,” Keshawn said when asked when asked how long he wants to stay at lightweight. “I'm 144 now. I'm not really 140 pounds, 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 is going to be brutal and tough if he moves up to where he has to fight in the welterweight division against the killers out there. Without Keyshawn's size advantage, he's nowhere to be seen. Fighters like Karen Choukhadjian would pick him apart and get rid of him before he could fight Butts.
“He's going to 147 for one reason because I'm in a**,” Davis said of WBO light welterweight champion Teofimo Lopez, who moved up to 147 because he's supposedly escaping it.
