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Edwin De Los Santos revealed that he’ll problem Keyshawn Davis for his WBO light-weight title on June seventh in Virginia. Keyshawn, 26, is lastly exhibiting some bravery by taking over the heavy-handed Dominican Republic native De Los Santos in his first title protection.
Nonetheless, he’s catching him on the excellent time, with two years of rust on him and coming off a loss. If not for that, it’s uncertain that Keyshawn and his promoters at Prime Rank would ever agree to make use of him as a challenger. De Los Santos could be deemed too harmful if he have been energetic.
Surprising Shot
Davis is being maneuvered VERY fastidiously by his promoters to maintain him above the water line as a result of he might shortly sink in the event that they threw him in with younger abilities like Andy Cruz, Raymond Murtalla, Gervonta Davis, and his good friend, Shakur Stevenson.
#13 WBO-ranked De Los Santos (16-2, 14 KOs) instructed MillCity Boxing the struggle in opposition to Keyshawn (13-0, 9 KOs) is “For sure,” and he expects the contract to be despatched tomorrow. Hopefully, Davis doesn’t have second ideas and alter his thoughts about combating the 25-year-old Edwin as a result of that is in all probability nearly as good because it will get for him.
Keyshawn was speaking loopy after capturing the WBO light-weight title from champion Denys Berinchyk final month on February 14th, saying he needed Isaac ‘Pitbull’ Cruz in his first title protection. He sounded assured that the Pitbull would conform to struggle him as a result of he was now the WBO belt-holder.
Keyshawn doesn’t notice that being a champion doesn’t imply something on this period of the game. Belts don’t matter now. These are solely necessary for fighters who haven’t any fanbase and want a title to validate them to informal boxing followers.
It’s not splendid for De Los Santos, 25, to struggle for a world title after two years of inactivity and not using a tune-up. He’s not going to show down the chance. He hasn’t fought since shedding to Shakur Stevenson by a 12-round unanimous resolution on November 16, 2023.
Edwin threw away his probabilities of successful that struggle by not letting his palms go sufficient, seemingly afraid of being hit with counters from the 2016 Olympic silver medalist. De Los Santos might have gained however didn’t present the fireplace that we’d seen from him in his three-round knockout of Jose ‘Rayo’ Valenzuela.
The “Businessman”
It’s not the struggle that followers needed to see from Keyshawn as a result of they’ve been pushing him to defend in opposition to his four-time conqueror, Andy Cruz. Sadly, the Prime Rank-promoted Davis has proven no real interest in going through the proficient Cuban after shedding to him within the 2020 Olympics.
That horrible expertise appears to have left a mark on Keyshawn, making him reluctant to face Andy once more. Davis calls himself ‘The Businessman’ since turning professional, and his focus appears to be simply to generate profits. Combating Andy Cruz once more would flip the money circulate off on the spigot.
