Keyshawn Davis suggested that three-lane lightweight heavyweight champion Artur Beterbiev cheated to gain power ahead of his fight with Dmitry Bivol. Lightweight fighter Keyshawn says IBF, WBC and WBO 175-pound champion Beterbiev (20-0, 20 KO) is “Unnaturally forceful” and that if he “comes naturally” he will lose the fight against WBA champion Bivol (23-0, 12 KO) on Saturday evening in Riyad.

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Fans are criticizing Keyshawn for suggesting that two-time Olympian Beterbiev is a cheater because he has never tested positive for PEDs in his 11-year professional career and has always hit well since his amateur days in Russia.

He is a guy endowed with enormous power and able to deliver miniature punches with great force. Most fighters need to charge up to generate power, but Beterbiev doesn’t have to.

“I won’t say it because it will make headlines, but I will always stick with the boxer. I will definitely choose Bivol,” said Keyshawn Davis Fightchoosing Dmitry Bivol to beat Artur Beterbiev on Saturday night in Riyad.

“Beterbiev, he’s so unnaturally forceful,” Keyshawn said, widening his eyes to indicate that something was wrong with Beterbiev. “It’s demanding to beat unnatural shit, if you know what I’m saying. If it comes naturally, Bivol should win. But if he comes unnaturally forceful, it will be hard to defeat something like that.

If Bivol loses, it won’t be because of something unnatural on Beterbiev’s part. He is a better fighter than Bivol, who has shown problems with his chin in the past against weaker fighters.

If Keyshawn had the power that Beterbiev had, he would be a more popular lightweight fighter and wouldn’t be fighting the weaker fighters that Top Rank feeds him. He hasn’t looked good in two of his last three fights against Miguel Madueno and Nahir Albright.

It’s clear from watching these fights that Keyshawn isn’t going anywhere and Top Rank wasted their time signing him after his loss to Cuban Andy Cruz at the 2020 Olympics. They should have signed Cruz and not Keyshawn. It was a mistake on their part.

On Saturday evening, CHRIS EUBANK JR will have former coach Wladimir Klitschko in his corner.

Jonathon Banks, who led Klitschko’s team after Manny Steward’s death, also worked with Dillian Whyte and Gennady Golovkin.

Eubank is not afraid to rotate corners, having previously worked with Ronnie Davies, Roy Jones Jr and Brian ‘Bomac’ McIntyre. On Saturday evening, the 35-year-old middleweight fighter will face Pole Kamil Szeremeta. Banks was in Golovkin’s corner four years ago when the Kazakh champion defeated Szeremeta in seven rounds.

CANELO ALVAREZ will reportedly be in Japan on Sunday to watch one of the Inoue brothers in action.

Takuma Inoue defends his WBA bantamweight title against Seiya Tsutsumi in an event featuring four world title fights. Canelo’s trainer Eddy Reynoso will be at work, however, as his fighter Cristofer Rosales will face Kenshiro Teraji for the vacant WBC flyweight title.

SAM GILLEY understands he has a novel opponent for October 18 after Louis Greene withdrew from the rematch.

Both super welterweights had one of the best domestic fights of 2023, which Gilley won via unanimous decision. Greene’s replacement will be Jack McGann, who was stopped in one round by Greene in March.

STEPHEN FULTON will continue his path to becoming a two-division world champion when he returns on December 14.

ESPN reports that the former unified super bantamweight champion will face featherweight Brandon Figueroa at the Gervonta Davis-Lamont Roach main event in Houston.

Fulton and Figueroa have already met once in November 2021, when Fulton added the WBC world title to his WBO 122-pound title, defeating the Texan by majority decision in a great fight.

Jermall Charlo fought his way back home to end his final break from the ring.

The Ring has confirmed that the former two-division champion will return to the ring on December 14. Charlo (33-0, 22 knockouts) will appear on Gervonta “Tank” Davis-Lamont Roach PBC’s Prime Pay-Per-View event at the Toyota Center in Houston, Texas.

At the time of publication, the adversary had not yet been identified. However, The Ring learned that the main candidate is Thomas “Cornflake” LaManna (38-5-1, 17 KO). Such a fight would take place at the full super middleweight limit.

PBC creator Al Haymon was trying to replace the injured Nico Collins on his NFL Fantasy Football team, but was unable to comment on the situation.

Houston’s Charlo will be out of the ring for just over a year before fight night. He ended a 29-month absence from the ring on November 25 last year in Las Vegas with a ten-round victory over Jose Benavidez Jr. (28-3-1, 19 KOs). Charlo did not make the set weight for the fight, reaching a career-high 166.4 pounds.

This will mark his second fight in a row in the super middleweight division. Charlo already held the IBF junior middleweight and WBC middleweight titles.

Previous rumors claimed that Charlo would potentially face fellow former two-division titleholder Demetrius Andrade. However, The Ring confirmed that these were false hopes and that such a match was never included in the budget for the Davis-Roach undercard.

Charlo’s last home fight came in June 2021, when he scored over Juan Macias Montiel (23-6-2, 23 KO). The fight also took place at the Toyota Center and was the fourth and final defense of his WBC middleweight title.

Personal problems forced a longer break from the ring. Along with this, plans to defend the title against Maciej Sulecki in June 2022 in this place were canceled.

Charlo was ultimately cleared from the WBC 160-pound fight due to his inability to defend against interim champion and mandatory challenger Carlos Adames (24-1, 18 KO). Charlo has been given the title of “Hi-time Champion”, although he is not expected to return to middleweight.

If this fight takes place, it will be LaManna’s third career fight above 160 pounds.

The 32-year-old from southern Modern Jersey has won eight straight since a knockout loss to Erislandy Lara in May 2021. The fight will feature a secondary version of the WBA middleweight title. Since then, Lara has landed a full slate of titles, and LaManna is planning a comeback.

In his last appearance, LaManna scored a second-round knockout of normally fit Juan Carlos Abreu (26-8-1, 24 KOs). Their clash took place on June 8 in LaManna’s home region of Atlantic City.

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