“I can fight at 147 now!” – Keyshavn Davis

Keyshawn Davis said he can fight at welterweight now because he is big enough, but wants to stay at 135 to win the WBO belt from Dennis Berinchik and then unify. Davis (12-0, 8 KOs) can lose to Berinchik (19-0, 9 KOs) and be left high and dry.

Next month, Kishon will fight WBO lightweight champion Berinchik on February 14th at the Garcia Theater at Madison Square Garden. The event will be shown on ESPN+.

Too big for 135?

Keyshawn could move up to welterweight now because he’s as big as Jaron ‘Boots’ Ennis. He would rather continue to melt down at 135 to have a size advantage over his opponent. Davis is like Haney 2.0. with the fact that he is too big to fight in the lightweight division.

The mistake is that Kishon is talking about what he will do after Berinchik, assuming that he will win and that the struggle for unification will follow. Davis created a fictional world in his head. His feet are not on the ground.

He does not see reality. The reality is that Keyshawn could lose that fight because he’s wrong, and even if he wins, Top Rank won’t be able to put together the unification fights that he would like. He doesn’t want to fight his buddy, Shakur, and he can forget about Gervonta Davis and Vasily Lomachenkov fighting him. He is nobody to them.

Had Keishon been brave, he could have fought his fourfold conqueror, Andy Cruzif he gets his hands on the VBO belt. Cruz already said last week that he was pulling for him to beat Berinchik so he could take the belt from him afterwards.

Davis wants nothing to do with Cruz as he would school him for a fifth time and make Top Rank regret signing him after losing to the Cuban at the 2020 Olympics.

Can Keyshawn cut it to 147?

“I don’t have to stay at 135. I’m bigger than Shakur.” Shakur probably hovers at 135. My peak is at 147. This is just the beginning. “135 is just the beginning,” Keyshawn Davis said MillCity Bookingsounds like the beginning of a rift with his friend, Shakur Stevenson,

“There are fights there.” I don’t need to fight Shakur, but I would like to team up after beating Berinchik with one of the champions. we will see. I want to fight. I am a young gunner. I want to fight everyone (except Andy Cruz). After I get the belt, of course, I want to unify with one of the champions, other than Stevenson.

“I won’t be at 135 much longer. As long as I want to be here,” Keyshon said when asked how much longer he wants to stay at lightweight. “Right now I’m 144. I’m not really 140 pounds, but I have the size and strength to do it.

Of course, Keyshawn doesn’t have to stay at 135, but we know he will because life would be brutal and difficult for him to move to where he should be fighting killers up there at welterweight. Without Keyshavn’s size advantage, he is nowhere. Fighters like Karen Chukhadzhian would pick him apart, eliminate him before he could fight Boots.

“He’s going to go to 147 for one reason because I’m struggling,” Davis said of WBO light heavyweight champion Teofimo Lopez moving up to 147 because he’s reportedly running away from him.