Keyshawn Davis is taking a danger preventing Gustavo Lemos subsequent month in a light-weight conflict on November eighth in Scope Enviornment in Norfolk, Virginia.
After Keyshawn’s final bizarre battle towards Miguel Madueno and his equally poor displaying towards Nahir Albright, there’s a excessive chance that he’s going to lose to the Argentinian Lemos (29-1, 19 KOs) of their 10-round headliner. Keyshawn virtually misplaced to Albright and was staggered within the eighth spherical when he obtained reckless.
In Keyshawn’s fights towards Madueno and Albright, it appeared like he was having PTSD flashbacks to his defeat towards Cuba’s Andy Cruz within the 2020 Olympic finals when he was beneath strain towards these fighters.
In opposition to Madueno, Keyshawn panicked when he began getting hit laborious, turning the battle right into a WWE wrestling match, throwing the rulebook out the window, and doing stuff that ought to have resulted in a disqualification. You’ll be able to argue that if Keyshawn wasn’t the A-side, he would have been disqualified.
I used to be watching the battle, pondering, ‘What on earth is Keyhawn doing?’ He went pure big-time wrestling mode. If I had been Bob Arum of Prime Rank, I’d have been pondering, ‘How do I do away with Keyshawn? I must dump this man as a result of he ain’t obtained it. Let me throw him in with Abdullah Mason and let the teen end this loss.’
What To Do With Keyshawn Is He Loses?
If Keyshawn loses on November eighth to Lemos, Prime Rank might want to take into account making the perfect of what’s left of his contract with them. They gained’t be capable to maneuver Keyshawn into capturing a world title with slick matchmaking to create a pseudo-champion.
That’s not going to occur. There’s an excessive amount of expertise at light-weight, and Keyshawn is simply too massive for the division to seize and maintain down a world title.
Choices For Salvage Expedition for Davis
– Mario Barrios
– Eimantas Stanionis
– Brian Norman Jr.
– Conor Benn
One various could be for Prime Rank to maneuver Keyshawn as much as the place they need to be preventing at 147 and goal the beatable champions, Mario Barrios and Eimantas Stanionis. These are guys that might lose to most of the prime fighters at 135, 140 and 147.
It wouldn’t be a good suggestion for Prime Rank to match Keyshawn towards WBO welterweight champion Brian Norman Jr. as a result of he punches too laborious and has an excessive amount of toughness for him.
We noticed how Albright staggered Keyshawn and the way he fell aside mentally towards Madueno when he began getting hit laborious. Norman could be a catastrophe for Keyshawn and would knock him out in a bloody vogue.
What we’ve seen from Keyshawn in his fights towards Albright and Madueno is a fighter who doesn’t have the expertise to be a world champion-level fighter. These two fights have been eye-openers, displaying that the Virginia native Keyshawn lacks the products to be a champion until it’s the paper selection.
Prime Rank famous Keyshawn’s current issues towards fringe contenders and supplied him a lesser fighter for his November eighth headliner, however he selected Lemos.
Unwilling to Face His Conqueror Andy Cruz
Keyshawn needed somebody good, however clearly not somebody too good. If he needed to place his profession in danger to indicate true braveness, he’d chew the bullet and face his four-time conqueror, Cuba’s Andy Cruz, who beat him like a drum repeatedly within the beginner ranks.
Cruz has repeatedly referred to as him out since turning professional and refers to him as his “son.” Apparently, Keyshawn is adamant about not desirous to battle Cruz, which signifies that he is aware of what he would do to his profession, comparable to it’s. Being crushed 4 occasions by Cruz within the beginner ranks is one factor, however dropping to him within the professionals would end Keyshawn’s hopes of ever making the tens of millions that he’s dreaming of.
This might backfire on Keyshawn as a result of Lemos has expertise, and he might win, offered there’s no controversy.
Lemos’s energy and aggressive fashion are pure bother for Keyshawn, who’s about to show 26-years-old and nonetheless hasn’t fought anybody. Davis is ranked #3 in IBF, WBC, and WBO.
Prime Rank is positioning Keyshawn to battle WBO light-weight champion Denys Berinchyk, who’s seen because the weakest hyperlink among the many division’s accessible champions.
Keyshawn would have his greatest likelihood of profitable a belt towards him as a result of he’s basically a welterweight who boils all the way down to 35 to battle smaller guys. Keyshawn may have an infinite measurement benefit towards Berinchyk, who’s a real light-weight.
The 2020 Olympic silver medalist Keyshawn (11-0, 7 KOs) is being fast-tracked by Prime Rank, who just lately misplaced Shakur Stevenson. They’re pushing Keyshawn sooner than they in all probability would have if issues had been completely different.
I’m that new upcoming star the game wants. I would be the face it’s in Gods Plans. #november8th⭐️
— Keyshawn Davis (@KeyshawnDavis8) October 23, 2024
