Keysawn Davis believes the efficiency he’ll flip in towards Gustavo Lemos on Friday, November eighth, will put him on the point of fame. The unbeaten 2020 Olympic silver medalist Keyshawn (11-0, 7 KOs) faces Lemos (29-1, 19 KOs) in a ten-round light-weight headliner on ESPN+ on the Scope Area in Norfolk, Virginia.
Based on High Rank president Todd Duboef, Keyshawn hand-picked Lemos as his opponent. He doesn’t say why Keyshawn didn’t choose Cuban Andy Cruz as his opponent as a result of he’s ranked a lot increased at light-weight than Lemos, and he owns an ideal 4-0 document towards him from the amateurs. Cruz and his promoter, Eddie Hearn, have been calling out Keyshawn with no luck.
The High Rank-promoted Keyshawn expects 10,000 followers to prove to observe him struggle Lemos, and he’s bought a few his brothers on the undercard. Norfolk has a inhabitants of roughly 232,000+ folks. So, it’s simpler to be a giant ticket vendor in that small metropolis with not a lot occurring in comparison with a bigger metropolis like New York with 8.3 million folks.
Keyshawn didn’t carry out nicely in his final struggle towards Miguel Madueno, successful a ten-round distance on the Shakur Stevenson vs. Artem Harutyunyan card on July sixth. He says he stole the present, however he didn’t, and his efficiency was on par with Shakur’s.
Keyshawn fought like a WWE wrestler, utilizing ways that had no resemblance to boxing and doing every part he might to maintain from taking punishment from the hard-hitting Mexican fighter.
You can inform Madueno’s stress on Keyshawn prompted him to unravel mentally. Therefore, the wrestling ways had been a final resort. It was arduous to observe the struggle as a result of Keyshawn appeared like he needed no half of the particular combating.
It was stunning that the referee didn’t disqualify or penalize him a number of occasions for his ways, however he caught a break with the referee’s laissez-faire angle when implementing the principles. Keyshawn would have been disqualified by the sixth if I had been the referee. He was simply so terrible that evening, however he wasn’t any higher in his struggle towards Nahir Albright final 12 months in October.
“In fact, I’d choose Lomachenko first, but when I might grow to be a world champion, then I’m going to grow to be a world champion. I’m not going to be ready on no person’s time,” stated Keysahwn Davis to the Sean Zittel channel when requested if he’d prefer to problem IBF light-weight champion Vasily Lomachenko.
Lomachenko isn’t going to waste time combating Keyshawn as a result of he’s not a giant identify and has not appeared spectacular in two out of his final three fights. Keyshawn has quite a bit to show nonetheless, and it’s questionable whether or not he’s going to pan out.
“I promote. So, I don’t want a reputation to assist me promote,” stated Keyshawn. “So no matter world champion desires to entertain me first, that’s who I’m going to go after. Me and Berinchyk shall be an amazing struggle. In fact, I’m going to be the winner of that struggle, however I believe it’ll be good for him when it comes to advertising and promotion.”
WBO light-weight champion Denys Berinchyk would seemingly be the favourite towards Keyshawn, and he might beat him. If Keyshawn loses to Berinchyk, it’s predictable that High Rank will dump him overboard. That may be Keyshawn’s third poor efficiency in his final 4 fights. We nonetheless don’t understand how Keyshawn will do towards Lemos. He would possibly look dangerous towards him as nicely.
“Not solely a world champion, however I really feel like after my struggle towards Lemos, I’m going to be on a breaking level of turning into a famous person,” stated Keyshawn. “I’m going to have 10,000 folks watching me in that area [Scope], not together with ESPN viewers. They’re going to see one other style of, ‘Rattling, Keyshawn is basically like that. Similar to his final struggle [Miguel Madueno].’
“I’m going to be on the breaking level of being a star. Was it the struggle of the evening?” requested Keyshawn about his struggle towards Madueno.
The struggle of the evening on the July sixth card was Abdullah Mason’s third-round knockout win over Luis Lebron.
“Coming into the Lemos struggle, you’re going to be entertained,” stated Keyshawn.
Hopefully, Keyshawn does entertain as a result of he’s the one who picked Lemos. In order that should imply he sees vulnerability in him that he can exploit as a result of he might have another person.
2020 Olympic Cuban gold medalist Andy Cruz would have jumped on the likelihood to struggle Keyshawn.
