Raymond Muratalla says that he intends to press the fight against the featherlight champion WBO Keyshawn Davis after he raised the IBF 135-Funt belt.

#4 Muratalla (22-0, 17 Kos) fights #2 Zaur Abdullaev (20-1, 12 KO) for a momentary featherlight IBF title on May 10 at the Pechang Arena in San Diego, California. The event will be shown live on ESPN and ESPN+, starting from 22:00 et/19: 00

The winner of the Muratalla-Abdullaev fight will be either improved to the full status of the featherlight champion IBF, or they will fight for the belt against the current master Vasily Lomachenko.

Loma does not work due to a back injury since the free IBF title stimulated on May 12 last year against George Cambosos Jr. Lomachenko until October 8, to defend your IBF title against the winner of Muratalla vs. Abdullaev.

Keyshawn next?

Muratalla is expected to defeat Abdullaev to put himself in a position to be improved to the featherlight champion IBF or fight Lomachenko. If he gets his hands in the IBF title, he will strive for the best rank to unite with the WBO Keyshawn Davis champion. They promote both warriors. It should be an basic fight.

“The one that makes sense is Keyshawn [Davis]. He has the highest rank and I’m with the highest rank. I think it will be the one that will most likely happen, “said Raymond Muratalla, Ryce Sean Zittel About the fight he wants for the title of world champion.

Keyshawn would make sense if he and the highest rank were ready to put him in a variety with a risky opponent. All you have to do is look at the opponents he fought with since he changed the professional in 2021 to know that he was going on a produced path to artificial fame. Then the warrior is matched to the tomato cans to build a record to transform them into a pseudo-star PPV. Keyshawn does not break from the carefully directed path to fight Muratalla and lose.

“I think it will most likely happen because it has the highest position. Gervonta and Shakur already have plans. I think it is the one that makes the most sense and will most likely happen,” said Muratalla.

It is very unlikely that Muratalla will have a chance to fight Keyshawn for its featherlight WBO title, because it is carefully adapted to the highest rank. He has not yet fought anyone who had a distant chance of defeating him. Guys who could give Keyshawn problems, Andy Cruz, Muratalla and Abdullah Mason, did not show interest in the fight. It quickly grows from the division 135 pounds and can move to 140 until next year.

Davis hopes that he will be able to stay featherlight enough to get a enormous mega fighting against Gervont Davis, but this will not happen without Turka Alalshikh, interest in financing. The positive sign of Turki made Keyshawn one of his brand ambassadors in the Ring magazine this week. If he wants to see how Keyshawn fights with a living body, such as Andy Cruz or Muratalla, before he gets a featherlight welterweight, he can do it. Without him, Keyshawn will not voluntarily fight Muratalla or Cruz because of the high probability of exposure.

Farmer’s fight

“I think I should have come in and intimidate him,” Muratalla said, regretting that without fighting more aggressively in the fight against Tevin Farmer last July 13. “I think I thought too much. That’s all. I could do a lot more.”

Muratalla focused on throwing individual shots, believing that he could knock out a farmer with this approach. It was the wrong style for apply against the former IBF super feather champion because he has a good chin and made him miss.

“They told me in my corner to just release my hands, and that’s all I had to do. You saw in the last round what happened when I released my hands [Muratalla hurt Farmer]. I tried to find a huge shot to hurt him, and it was probably the mistake I made, just looking for a huge shot – said Muratalla.

In Raymond’s fight with the farmer, he did not follow him with combinations without interruption until the tenth round and approached him to throw him away. However, if Muratalla was fighting the farmer again, there is no guarantee that he would succeed, using a high output style, because he fights with William Zepeda. Tevin came up with how to neutralize the output power using a enormous amount of holding and movement.

“There are many skills that I have not yet shown,” said Muratalla, telling about her coming fight against Zaur Abdullaev on May 10 in San Diego, California. “I can’t wait to show the world what skills I really have. I think he will come to fight, and I will be 100% ready for it. He not only is there.

“100%. I think the belt raises my name,” Muratalla said, asked if having a motor title would be his negotiating “chip” to get more fights she wants. They can’t avoid it anymore. I will definitely be Callnig for these shots if everything goes well. “