Keyshawn Davis claims he would knock out Devin Haney if given an opportunity to battle the previous two-division world champion. Davis (11-0, 7 KOs) says Haney lacks the facility to make him respect what he brings and couldn’t maintain him off from attacking.
Keyshawn’s punching energy and the Crawford-esque preventing type could be a nightmare for Haney if he couldn’t preserve him off with clinching, jabbing, and motion. Some see Keyshawn as the subsequent Crawford and as destined for greatness within the sport. High Rank feels that means as a result of they’re placing him in headliners and matching him properly to make sure he doesn’t get overwhelmed.
Keyshawn, the 2020 Olympic silver medalist, feels that a lot of Haney’s success throughout his profession was resulting from him being larger than his opposition at 135 and 140. In lots of the fights, Haney regarded monumental contained in the ring after rehydrating and regarded like he didn’t belong towards his smallish opponents. Sadly, that’s how the game is performed now.
Youthful fighters, who’re capable of soften down large quantities of water weight, select to battle in divisions properly beneath their frames. They then someway discover a approach to regain 20+ lbs of water quickly. Who is aware of how they do it, however clearly, there are methods to sport the system.
Till boxing fixes this drawback by making secondary weight-ins necessary on the day of the battle, we’ll proceed to see this type of factor.
The High Rank-promoted light-weight contender Keyshawn would wish to maneuver as much as welterweight to battle Haney as a result of that’s the place he’s heading.
A lot of the shine on Haney’s profession has come off after his loss to Ryan Garcia final April, and he’s not receiving the purple carpet therapy he as soon as had obtained. It’s like Haney is not one of many royalty is only a a daily peasant working the land and paying the taxes to the King. That loss to Ryan actually did one thing to Haney’s standing and the way in which he’s handled now.
We noticed that final weekend when Haney was bickering with promoter Eddie Hearn over tickets for the Anthony Joshua vs. Daniel Dubois occasion at Wembley Stadium. Would which have occurred if Haney had overwhelmed Ryan final April? That’s a giant no. Haney could be a part of the in-crowd, the movie star celebrity, who would have been given first-class therapy.
“I really feel like me and Devin Haney could be a straightforward battle for me. It might be tremendous straightforward, and I do know I’d cease Devin Haney,” stated Keyshawn Davis to High Rank Boxing, trashing former two-division world champion Haney. “I’ve been saying this earlier than the Ryan battle. He simply don’t received nothing for me.”
If there was a means for Keyshawn to maneuver as much as welterweight with out dropping the facility that he’s proven at 135, it might be attention-grabbing to see him and Haney battle it out. It doesn’t appear potential given the load courses, and community points that stand in the way in which of this battle being made.
“You don’t received no energy. You bought nothing for me to fret about,” stated Keyshawn about Haney. “What are you going to do to cease me? With what I received coming with, I don’t really feel like he’s received nothing to cease me. His protection is just not that good. I really feel like I received higher protection than him.
“I do know he’s fought higher opponents than me. So, I give him the advantage of the doubt, however I simply really feel like I received higher protection than him. Yeah, it’s, however you bought to appreciate he fought quite a lot of guys that had been smaller than him, too,” Keyshawn stated, reacting to being informed that Haney’s resume is ‘Powerful.’
“Quite a lot of the blokes had been smaller than him. He was saying on the weigh-in, ‘You’re too small.’ So, he knew what he was doing, bro. All people has received that course of for getting there. I’m not knocking what he’s doing,” stated Davis.
Haney’s totally different promoters did a bang-up job of matching him throughout his profession, however all good issues should finish. It fell aside when he lastly met his match towards Ryan Garcia, and he now appears to be like like yesterday’s information. It might not be potential to rebuild Haney as a result of he’s mentally shaken and might not meltdown to battle in weight courses beneath his monumental junior middleweight body. The jig is up.
“His guys are smarter than him, and it was straightforward for him to get out of the way in which. While you’re taller than anyone, extra rangy, it’s straightforward to get out of the way in which and simply dodge stuff and preserve them on the surface, which is his sport. The dimensions means one thing, bro. I simply really feel like he can’t do [anything] with me,” stated Keyshawn.
Till Haney’s final battle towards Ryan Garcia on April twentieth, he’d been larger than all his opponents, giving him an amazing benefit. Nevertheless, he regarded mortal towards Ryan and was overwhelmed up badly by him. Since that battle, Haney has had the look of an ex-war vet who isn’t the identical mentally after witnessing the horrors of numerous battles. That battle took one thing out of Haney that he can’t overlook.
