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Keyshawn Davis captured the WBO light-weight belt from fellow Prime Rank fighter Denys Berincyk final Friday night time, however he’s no higher off than the man he changed because the belt-holder when it comes to the dream fights in opposition to Gervonta Davis and Vasily Lomachenko occurring.
The Cruz Problem
Let’s make this clear: Keyshawn is NOT getting a battle in opposition to Tank Davis now, subsequent yr, or the yr after. It’s not occurring. He and Prime Rank want about that pipe dream and deal with actuality. The battle that’s out there to Keyshawn is the Cuban phenom Andy Cruz, the man that beat him 4 instances, and has been calling him out since he turned skilled.
If Prime Rank believes in Keyshawn, they should match him in opposition to Andy to additional his profession. If he’s the true 24k gold, he’ll beat Cruz and show to the boxing world that he’s developed since he was routinely getting whipped by him within the amateurs. But when Keyshawn loses, which is what I anticipate to occur, he’ll all the time idiot gold and simply be the Edgar Berlanga kind that Prime Rank was constructing to be a faux star.
Keyshawn has NOT fought anybody gifted but. Certainly, all of the fighters that he’s crushed in his 13-fight skilled profession would lose to those three:
– Abdullah Mason– Andy Cruz– Raymond Muratalla
There isn’t anybody on Keyshawn’s resume as a professional that these three wouldn’t beat and look higher doing so. Even Davis’ personal brother, Keon Davis, would beat everybody on his resume. If you happen to fed the 13 guys that Keyshawn has fought to Keon, Mason, Cruz, and Muratalla, it will be all victories for them, too.
Successful the WBO title makes Keyshawn (13-0, 9 KOs) considered one of many belt-holders within the sport with no actual choices for mega-fights to occur. It’s worse for Keyshawn, 25, as a result of he’s getting greater and is already a middleweight in look.
Weight bullies can’t artificially keep in divisions which are effectively under their dimension ceaselessly with out it catching as much as them. Keyshawn received’t be capable of hold enjoying the drain sport ceaselessly, hoping he can keep at light-weight lengthy sufficient to get that cash-out battle in opposition to Tank Davis. You’ll be able to’t make a profession out of clout-chasing. Keyshawn ought to shut up about Davis, and deal with growing his profession on his personal deserves.
Tank didn’t use name-dropping to develop into the star he’s. He did it by performing on the highest ranges time and again. He additionally wasn’t draining down three divisions to battle smaller guys. If he was doing the identical factor Keyshawn is now, he’d have been competing in opposition to tremendous bantamweight his complete profession.
For fighters that use weight manipulation to seize belts, the success is fleeting as a result of it’s unattainable to remain in a division that’s three weight lessons under your bodily dimension.
“I was thinking [Raymond] Muratalla is about to fight in some kind of [IBF lightweight title] eliminator [against Zaur Abdullaev on May 15th] to put himself in position. There’s an opportunity if he wins [for Keyshawn to fight him]. There’s an opportunity to unify the titles. Why don’t you do that?” stated Tim Bradley to Prime Rank Boxing about wanting newly topped WBO light-weight champion Keyshawn Davis to battle Raymond Muratalla if he captures the vacant IBF 135-lb belt.
“Two young guns. You don’t have to wait and let it over-marinate, and he [Keyshawn] wins another title there. That may entice a Tank fight,” stated Bradley, assuming that Keyshawn would beat Muratalla or proceed to make weight for the division.
“It’s Tank doing the picking. Tank isn’t going to wait for Muratalla or anything like that,” stated Mark Kreigel. “Tank could be the favourite [over Keyshawn if they fought]. We all know extra about him. He’s extra established, he’s been round an extended time, and he’s an even bigger star and he’s an important fighter.
“Tank never showed any desire to fight Devin Haney, and Teofimo. Where does he go? I think the logical place is Keyshawn,” stated Kriegel.
Tanks Not
If Tank didn’t need to battle Haney or Teofimo, why does Kriegel suppose he’s going to need to battle a large middleweight-sized Keyshawn Davis? He can’t be critical. Tank received’t need to battle a middleweight, and he shouldn’t need to.
Keyshawn must be the place he belongs at 160, preventing the likes of Janibek Alimkhanuly and Hamzah Sheeraz. If he’s pretty much as good as Prime Rank thinks he’s, he shouldn’t have any issues beating Janibek and Hamzah.
“From what you see with your eyes. I didn’t think he [Keyshawn] was going to stop Berinchyk until I saw the first round, and I saw that body shot,” stated Bradley.
“It was really difficult for Keyshawn to do what he did tonight because he was going up against a junk ball pitcher. He figured it out, he solved it, and he put the lights out real quick,” stated Kriegel, glazing Davis.
“What impressed me was the physical strength of Keyshawn with the way he was able to control the fight. He never allowed Berinchyk to get into his game, and that was the difference,” stated Bernardo Osuna.
“He [Keyshawn] says, ‘I want Gervonta ‘Tank’ Davis. That’s the name he’s been calling out, even when he was in Norfolk, Virginia [for his fight against Gustavo Lemos last November]. I think that’s a fight if he continues to fight like he did tonight could be made unless Tank Davis decides he’s going to retire,” stated Osuna, sounding naive about how weak Keyshawn’s opponents have been and the way monstrously big he’s for the light-weight division.
It’s a race in opposition to time for Keyshawn and Prime Rank, as they’ve received to get that mega-fight in opposition to Tank Davis nearly instantly as a result of he can’t hold draining down from middleweight to compete at 135.
If Tank chooses to not battle Keyshawn quickly, he’s not going to have the ability to make 135, and he’ll have to maneuver as much as 154 or 160, the place he must be proper now. Keyshawn received’t final lengthy preventing guys his dimension. He’s okay so long as he’s at 135, preventing smaller guys, however at middleweight, his profession received’t be over with.
