“Now I can fight at 147!” -Keyshawn Davis

Keyshawn Davis said he can fight at welterweight right now because he’s big enough, but he wants to stay at 135 to capture the WBO belt from Denys Berinchyk and then unify it. Davis (12-0, 8 KOs) can lose to Berinchyk (19-0, 9 KOs) and come out dry.

Next month, Keyshawn will fight WBO lightweight champion Berinchyk on February 14 at the Madison Square Garcia Theater. The event will be broadcast on ESPN+.

Too big for 135?

Keyshawn could move up to welterweight right now because he’s as big as Jaron ‘Boots’ Ennis. He would prefer to continue dropping to 135 to have a size advantage over his opponent. Davis is like Haney 2.0. being too big to fight at lightweight.

It’s a mistake for Keyshawn to talk about what he’ll do after Berinchyk, assuming he’ll win and unification fights will follow. Davis has created a fantasy world inside his head. His feet are not planted on the ground.

You are not seeing reality. The reality is that Keyshawn may lose that fight because he is flawed, and even if he wins, Top Rank won’t be able to put on the unification fights it wants. He doesn’t want to fight his friend Shakur, and he can forget about Gervonta Davis and Vasily Lomachenkof fighting him. For them he is nobody.

If Keyshawn were brave, he could fight his four-time conqueror. andy cruzif he gets the WBO belt. Cruz already said last week that he is pushing for him to beat Berinchyk and then take the belt from him.

Davis wants nothing to do with Cruz because it would educate him for the fifth time and make Top Rank regret hiring him after his loss to the Cuban at the 2020 Olympics.

Can Keyshawn make it at 147?

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

“There are fights out there. I don’t have to fight Shakur, but I would love to unify after beating Berinchyk with one of the champions. We’ll see. I want to fight. I am the young gunner. I want to fight with everyone (except andy cruz). After I get my belt, of course, I want to unify with one of the champions, except Stevenson.

“I’m not going to be at 135 much longer. As long as I want to be here,” Keyshawn said when asked how much longer he wants to stay at lightweight. “I weigh 144 right now. 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 hard if he moved up to where he should be fighting in the welterweight division against the killers there. Without Keyshawn’s size advantage, he’s nowhere. Fighters like Karen Chukhadzhian would tear him apart, eliminating him before he could fight Boots.

“He goes to 147 for a reason because I’m on his ass,” Davis said of WBO light welterweight champion Teofimo Lopez, who went up to 147 because he’s supposedly running away from him.