Tim Bradley is anxious for High Rank’s fighter light-weight contender Keyshawn Davis, who’s dealing with an even bigger Gustavo Lemos tonight on the primary occasion on the Scope Enviornment in Norfolk, Virginia.
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Lemos missed weight by 6.4 lbs, coming in at 141.4 lbs, and Bradley is certainly one of many offended about it. The plain query is, WHY was a light-weight welterweight chosen as Keyshawn’s opponent within the first place? There wouldn’t have been an issue if High Rank had chosen a light-weight as a substitute of pooling from the 140-lb division.
It’s been 5 years since Lemos (29-1, 19 KOs) final fought at 135 5 years in the past in November 2019. The Argentinian Lemos has been campaigning at mild welterweight since 2020, so it’s ridiculous that he was chosen to be the opponent.
If the large welterweight-sized Keyshawn have been requested to soften right down to 130 to be the B-side opponent for one of many fighters in that weight class, would he do it? He would refuse. Even when Keyshawn agreed, the probabilities are he’d are available in obese.
Lemos has been campaigning at 140, and it appeared weird that he was picked as Keyshawn’s opponent, anticipated to boil down to offer the Virginia native an unfair benefit over him simply in order that he might win. It’s apparent what this transfer is all about, and you may’t blame Lemos for not making weight.
That is extra about giving Keyshawn what would have been a weight-drained opponent in order that he might destroy him and seem like 24k gold slightly than the tarnished gold that we noticed in his latest fights towards Miguel Madueno on July sixth, and Nahir Albright on October 15, 2023.
“There’s at all times a priority, particularly six kilos. To begin with, that’s disrespectful. Displaying up right here and never making the load. Not even caring and getting shut? Come on, man,” mentioned Tim Bradley to Fighthype about Gustavo Lemos lacking weight by 6.4 lbs by coming in at 141.4 lbs at Thursday’s weigh-in for his combat tonight towards Keyshawn Davis in Norfolk, Virginia.
It’s not disrespectful for Lemos to overlook weight. That is the top results of what occurs when a fighter chooses an opponent that fights outdoors of his weight class at a better weight. If Keyshawn and his group wished to make sure that their opponent would make the 135-lb restrict, they need to have chosen a light-weight as a substitute of a light-weight welterweight, who hadn’t fought within the division in 5 years.
Former four-time Keyshawn conqueror, Andy Cruz of Cuba, was obtainable and would have gladly taken the combat to have the chance to defeat him for a fifth consecutive time. Why didn’t Keyshawn and High Rank select Cruz? He fights at light-weight and is ranked #4 WBA.
“It places Keyshawn and his group in a really robust place as a result of 10,000 persons are popping out to see him combat. It’s his first homecoming. ESPN is right here. The promoter spent the cash to get everyone right here. If you happen to don’t take the combat, you [anger] an entire lot of individuals. If you happen to do take the combat, you are taking the chance [of losing].”
Scope Enviornment has a seating capability of 10,253, and there shall be huge followers watching Keyshawn lose tonight if 10,000 present up. That’s the quantity that Keyshawn has repeatedly mentioned shall be in attendance.
“It’s unfair. You’re preventing a man from a unique weight class. It’s not proper,” mentioned Bradley. “That is alleged to be his [Keyshawn] second. He picked Lemos. He mentioned he might make the combat. Lemos hasn’t made that weight in two years [correction: FIVE years. Lemos last fought at 135 on November 23, 2019] at 135 lbs. He’s been preventing at 140, however nonetheless, that’s not an excuse. You signed on the dotted line. So that you’re alleged to make that weight.”
The counter-argument to Bradley’s remark about it being “unfair” that Lemos missed weight is why he was chosen for this combat from the 140-lb division. What was the rationale for that choice? Wasn’t this transfer by Keyshawn designed with the final word purpose of preventing a weight-drained opponent, Lemos, to make himself look good? It appears clear, and Lemos needed to have seen by way of the smokescreen and refused for use as a software to make Keyshawn seem like a 24k gold bar.
“Keyshawn’s group has obtained to get this proper. It is a harmful combat. I might perceive if he was preventing a feather-fisted fighter. He’s preventing a puncher,” mentioned Bradley.
If Keyshawn loses to Lemos, it can solely present what’s going to occur to him as soon as he begins preventing higher opposition. Keyshawn was staggered by Nahir Albright, barely beat him, and struggled in his final combat towards Miguel Madueno on July sixth. That was the combat by which Keyshawn roughed up Madueno when he began taking huge pictures from the Mexican fighter. These two performances by Keyshawn confirmed that he’s not going to go far at light-weight with out being protected by his promoters at High Rank.
