Super lightweight prospect Keyshawn Davis and 140-pound contender Gustavo Lemos are in negotiations for November 8th main event in an event promoted by Top Rank for ESPN in the United States and Davis’ home city of Norfolk, Virginia.
The bout will take place in the 135-pound division, and the recently defeated Argentine Lemos (29-1, 19 KOs) will come down in weight to meet Keyshawn (11-0, 7 KOs). Of course, it’s still puzzling why Top Rank isn’t booking Keyshawn, 25, to face a top 15 ranked lightweight but a light welterweight; but the last fight performance of Davis may have changed their mind.
You have to wonder what Top Rank’s top brass thinks about Keyshawn after signing him out of the Olympics three years ago. He is not really looking like a world beater for them and they must dawning the fact that how they can extricate themselves from his company? He is not giving anything that will make one to think that he is a man heading for world title gloves and it will be wiser for them to look for a way of getting rid of this nuisance if he is not going to change.
The Lemos fight is paradigmatic in deciding that the best course is to stick with Keyshawn unless he should be pitched overboard for someone like Eddie Hearn to resuscitate.
The character of the antagonist Andy Cruz is the ‘ghost’ in this position.
Keyshawn Davis will have probably laughed at the chance to fight the 2020 Olympic gold medalist Andy Cruz if the match was presented to him. Cruz outboxed Keyshawn four times in the amateurs, and was dancing after his victory in the 2020 Olympic final.
Notably, Keyshawn was in the ring making rounds as though he was the winner of the fight though he lost bad to Cruz 4-1. That must have been one of the purest examples of an individual who was completely out of touch with reality. As we have seen for the November 8th bout against Keyshawn, Cruz would be ideal for the job if invited.
Before his fight with Grant, Johnson scored a ten-round unanimous decision victory against Miguel Madueno on the 6th of July and the fight was similar to the WWE wrestling match due to the manner in which Davis moved around to dodge punches.
Once Keyshawn got a taste of Madueno’s strength early on he started using tactics such as picking the man off the floor, wrestling, clinching much of the time shoving, elbowing and throwing rabbit punches.
I cannot count the real nimble ways Keyshawn employed in the fight to dodge the heavy blows from Madueno. All this without ‘penalties’ or ‘disqualification’ awaiting them at the other end. Keyshawn should have been deducted three to four points if was not disqualified for the roughhouse kind of behaviour.
He seemed to be in his element at Wrestlemania by not remembering the presence of a boxer in the ring on that night. Madueno stood still looking at the referee pleading for him to ‘encourage’ him to do his part but it seemed the man didn’t care. He was really just a physical presence, sitting there to watch the foul-laden fight from the side of the A-side fighter, Keyshawn.
Gustavo’s Questionable Loss
Lemos had a somewhat doubtful 12-round unanimous decision loss against Richardson Hitchins on April 6th in the fight for an IBF light welterweight title eliminator in Las Vegas. That was how the score cards were shared, the judges giving him a score of 117-111, 115-113 and 115-113 in favour of Hitchins. I gave the fight 118-110 in favour of Lemos.
In a game that was heavily in Lemos’ favor it was embarrassing to see the Nevada judges give it to the American Hitchins. This particular fighting style of Hitchins is a mirror image of Shakur Stevenson. The difference that I find is that Richardson has more pop in his punches and at least has the effort to implement the idea of sitting down on his shots.
Musically, it is still unclear why Eddie Hearn, the boxer’s promoter, had to sign Shakur when he already had a copy of him whose existence he has not explained for some reason.
Keyshawn is currently WBA # 3, WBC # 3, AND # 3 IBF, WBO. Neither does the #3 ranking with the WBC make sense because Keyshawn will not face close friend, and lightweight division champion, Shakur Stevenson.