Richardson Hitchins says that he sees a player from the highest Keyshawn Davis ranking as a warrior who was strategically matched. I feel that he was speedy for his airy title WBO “matchmaking.”
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Hitchins, a master of lightweight IBF, believes that the performances introduced by Keyshawn (13-0, 9 KO), since the capture of the Silver Olympic medal in 2020 was a strategic one. He mentions that last year he was introduced with 35-year-old Jose Pedraza after this guy fell from 140 to fight him.
Cruz avoidance
In November last year, Davis fought with Gustavo Lemos, who also went down a slight welterweight to fight him, and looked terrible by weight.
Hitchins is not impressed that Keyshawn defends his 135-pound title against Edwin de Los Santos, the next June 7 at the Scope arena in Norfolk, Virginia. The event will be shown live on ESPN. He indicates that De Los Santos (16-2, 14 KO) has not fought for two years since 2023 and lost Shakur Stevenson.
Of all the claimers in a slight level that Keyshawn could defend himself, he chooses inactive de los Santos. His four -time winnerAndy Cruz, He begged to fight him, but he was ignored by him. I lost tracking how many times Cruz called Keyshawn and was ignored.
When you see Keyshawn bypassed the Olympic gold medalist 2020 Cruz, who trained him in the finals, and choosing de los Santos, it can only mean one. It fits. Protect the “businessman”.
“Come, Pedraza. They care about him. I look at Pedraza’s hit. Keyshawn looks at the ring in this way. He doesn’t care,” said Richardson Hitchins Thaboxingvoice Asked if he thinks Keyshawn Davis has been strategically matched.
Pedraza was elected Keyshawn after his feeble performance against Nahir Albright. He fought with Albright, staggered and fucked up under pressure from him in the championship rounds. After this fight of the highest ranking, she supported Keyshawn from the fight against margins and focused on both fighters who were led out of 140 or older guys in the mid -1930s.
“It fits”
“I do not take from Keyshawn, as if he was a trash or not a good warrior. But the performances he founded It was swimming. Put on a warrior who is someone at the age of 147.
I agree with the Hitchins. These Keyshawn performances were 100% equipped because it is inserted with guys designed so that it looks like 24 thousand. Gold. He cannot be mistaken for a compact 5’5 ″ lemos or a ministry, a much smaller perza and Denys Berinchyk.
“Yes, two years. Damn nearly two years outside the ring, and you fight Edwin. Come, ancient,” said Richardson about the fight against Keyshawn with the inactive de los Santos, who has not fought from November 16, 2023, when he lost to Shakur Stevenson.
Keyshawn did not try to fight de los Santos when he was still vigorous two to three years ago. He waited for him to leave the ring for several years before he looked at his path. I think that is why he calls himself a “businessman”.
“Edwin was somewhere in Dr. Dominican Republic]Paling Hookah,” said Hitchins about de los Santo. “He just tries to earn more money. They probably fuck him [De Los Santos] Besides, money for Shakur, and he probably is: “All right, these [people] They will give me a better bag or a bit of S ***.
“It must be more money, because there is no way you come back from a two-year break, and you just want to fight Keyshawn Davis,” said Hitchins.
Shakur Stevenson is regarded as one of the best pound-for-pound fighters on the planet, but one reigning world champion believes the Newark southpaw is ‘terrified’ of him.
Stevenson looked to be a level above Teofimo Lopez when they collided back in January, as Stevenson became the third-youngest four-division world champion in the rich history of the sport.
However, the unbeaten superstar is yet to fight since, despite informing O’Shaquie Foster that he could get his shot if able to defend his WBC super-featherweight world title against good friend, Raymond Ford, back in May.
Foster claimed a majority decision win to continue his second 130lb title reignbut talks for a clash between he and Stevenson then went quiet as the latter signed with Zuffa Boxing, whilst Foster eventually moved on to a three-belt unification with Emanuel Navarrete.
Speaking to Fight Hub TVFoster fumed at Stevenson for going back on his word and declared his belief that the 29-year-old is ‘terrified’ of him.
“I think that he is terrified of me and I think that he hopes that somebody else beats me so that he won’t have to ever fight me. He said it on Twitter, after Lamont [Roach] fought he was talking about ‘it is your time coming, I can’t wait to clown you on it.’ He is goofy.
“He is hoping that somebody else beats me, that is why he was hoping Ray Ford beat me, so that he can chat about it online instead of hopping in there himself with me.
“I am not a bully, but real guys know real guys. You sons, your mans, I beat ‘em up, why you ain’t trying to fight now?”
Navarrete-Foster takes place on Saturday, October 24, where ‘Ice Water’ could inch closer to becoming the first undisputed super-featherweight world champion since Hiroshi Kobayashi in 1969; a feat which Vasiliy Lomachenko is also trying to achieve.
Canelo Alvarez spends some time talking to Mike Coppinger on behalf of Ring Magazine about this state of his career, his October 31 title fight with Christian Mbilliwanting a rematch with Terence Crawfordand more. Read some excerpts from Canelo below with the full video in the link at the bottom.
“He’s a champion and he’s a very aggressive fighter. He go forward, throws a lot of punches and that make me excited because it’s good styles to make a good fight. Could be Fight of the Year.”
On why the fight was delayed from September
“Because I wasn’t ready. I have a little bit of problems with the family I need to fix and everything. And I like to have a pre-camp and then come to the training camp, so that’s why I postponed that fight because I learned from the past, you know…At this level [there’s a tiny margin for error] between win or lose.”
On what motivates him at this stage of his career
“I love boxing. Sometimes I try to say ‘why am I here if I accomplish everything?’ but I love boxing. That’s why I’m here, because I still love boxing and I enjoy it a lot.”
On a rematch with Crawford
“I hope so. If you realize that I always did good in my rematches. So, I always do good in the rematch so I hope that fight happens again…I just try to learn how much I can from the loss and from the other fights and get better, learn more and do better in the ring.
“[I’ve rewatched the Crawford fight] like five times, and it was very close. It’s not that much [that separates us]. But, yeah, it’s very [fine line between winning and losing] but I know what happened and I know my mistakes, and plus Crawford is a great fighter and you need to be 100%.”
Japan’s traditional year-end title bonanza appears to be underway, as U-Next announced a trio of championship bouts on November 29th at Tokyo’s venerable Ryogoku Kokugikan.
Leading the way is some variety of WBA bantamweight title rematch between “world” champion Riku Masuda (11-1, 9 KO) and former titlist Seiya Tsutsumi (13-0-3, 8 KO), who beat Masuda by unanimous decision when both were on the rise in 2023. The timeline here is, as best as I can tell:
And now, here we are. Tsutsumi, who by all rights should be owed a shot at Rodriguez, fights for a crappier version of the belt he never lost in the ring.
On the bright side, odds are we’re in for a treat. Two aggressive finishers with history between them should make for fireworks.
Three pounds south, multi-weight champion Kenshiro Teraji (26-2, 16 KO) makes his first super flyweight title defense against no. 10 contender Jassiel Ramon Amador Gamez (15-0-1, 13 KO). The 25-year-old Amador fights for the first time outside his native Mexico and for just the second time outside his home state of Baja California Sur; his strength of schedule is about what you’d expect, but unheralded Mexican knockout artists cause stirs on the regular and Teraji’s lost a step, so who knows.
Also at 115, WBA champ David Jimenez (18-1, 12 KO) faces former flyweight titlist Seigo Yuri Akui (23-3-1, 13 KO), whom you may remember from his Fight of the Year candidate against Teraji last year. There’s some f***ery at play here; the sanctioning body ordered Jimenez to rematch mandatory challenger John “Scrappy” Ramirez, only to turn around and grant Jimenez a “special permit” for this voluntary defenseclaiming it “has the authority to modify mandatory defense deadlines and grant special permits under justified circumstances.”
At no point in the press release does it say what those “justified circumstances” are. It claims that the winner must fight Ramirez within 120 days, but note their purported authority to “modify mandatory defense deadlines.”
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