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Promoter Eddie Hearn needs to see WBO light-weight champion Keyshawn Davis combat Andy Cruz, and Shakur Stevenson battle Gervonta Davis. The winners of these two fights would then meet to determine who’s the highest canine at 135.
That plan doesn’t look prone to occur. First, Keyshawn (13-0, 9 KOs) says he “won’t fight Cruz for pennies.” He expects huge cash, and that’s not going to occur. He says if the cash isn’t there at 135, Andy Cruz must combat him at 140 after he strikes up. That’s if the combat pays.
Keyshawn’s Calls for
Cruz isn’t fashionable sufficient for Prime Rank or ESPN to supply extra dough for that combat than what Keyshawn has been getting in opposition to the 13 no names he constructed his file on. Not one of the fighters Keyshawn has fought have been well-known. Cruz (5-0, 2 KOs) is in the identical boat. He’s additionally fought obscure opposition, and Hearn isn’t giving him an enormous promotional push like he’s doing with Shakur.
Davis, 25, just lately captured the WBO light-weight title from Denys Berinchyk on February 14th, knocking him out within the fourth spherical. After rehydrating for that combat, he regarded large, dwarfing Berinchyk in measurement. Keyshawn regarded like a rehydrated middleweight contained in the ring that evening. I don’t know the way he ever made weight.
“I’d like to see Shakur Stevenson against Gervonta Davis and Keyshawn Davis against Andy Cruz. The winners fight the winners,” stated Eddie Hearn to Fighthype.
“I want to fight Andy Cruz before I go [up to 140]. I’m not fighting him for pennies,” Keyshawn stated on Shawn Porter’s YouTube channel about Andy Cruz. “He’s not getting money for that s***,” Davis stated when instructed that Cruz is WBC light-weight champion Shakur Stevenson’s #1 contender.
“I’m going to fight him [Cruz] for the same amount of money I fought. No, sir,” stated Keyshawn about him not being prepared to combat Andy Cruz for a similar sum of money he’s made preventing the 13 different guys he’s constructed his file on.
So there it’s. Keyshawn received’t be preventing Cruz earlier than leaving the 135-lb division. That’s a very good factor for him as a result of Cruz would college him identical to he did within the amateurs the 4 instances they fought.
No Cash, No Struggle
“You’ve gotten a Latino fighter [Andy Cruz], who doesn’t converse English, that isn’t from America. He’s very exhausting to advertise. That’s why we’ve heard Keyshawn’s identify dragged round as a result of there’s no strategy to promote him particularly as a result of there are not any ties to the American networks or to the people who watch boxing [Note: Cruz fights on DAZN].
“That’s why they associate everything [reminding fans Cruz holds 4-0 record against Davis]. Keyshawn is right. If it makes pennies [paying the same money as his past 13 opponents], it don’t make sense. You might have to pull him up to 140],” stated Porter.
“I agree. If it don’t make money, it don’t make sense,” stated Keyshawn. “If we can make a lot of money at 140 instead of 135, he’s got to come up to 140. I can knock Canelo out, and they would be like, ‘I don’t know. That Andy Cruz kid. That Andy Cruz kid beat you four times in the amateurs.’ I just knocked Canelo out, bro. I got to get him,” stated Davis.
Cruz beat Keyshawn all 4 instances they fought within the amateurs. It seems like Davis has provide you with a very good excuse to inform the followers why he’ll proceed to keep away from Cruz. Simply inform the general public the combat doesn’t pay. That approach, he can protect his unbeaten file for longer.
Keyshawn stated on Porter’s channel that his promoters at Prime Rank have somebody for him to combat subsequent. He wouldn’t say who it’s, however the smile on his face steered that he’s going to get the combat that he’s been asking for in opposition to Isaac ‘Pitbull’ Cruz subsequent. What a measurement mismatch that’ll be.
