{"id":846992,"date":"2026-08-07T16:56:10","date_gmt":"2026-08-07T16:56:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/846992\/"},"modified":"2026-08-07T16:56:10","modified_gmt":"2026-08-07T16:56:10","slug":"keyshawn-davis-pulls-out-of-devin-haney-fight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/846992\/","title":{"rendered":"Keyshawn Davis Pulls Out Of Devin Haney Fight"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Keyshawn Davis has withdrawn from his mandated WBO welterweight world title fight with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.boxing-social.com\/news\/devin-haney-vs-keyshawn-davis-moves-closer-after-wbo-rankings-update\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Devin Haney<\/a> \u2014 and his own promoter, Bob Arum, admits he cannot make sense of it. Speaking to reporter Dan Rafael, <a href=\"https:\/\/bigfightweekend.com\/2026\/08\/06\/bob-arum-perplexed-keyshawn-davis\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">the veteran Top Rank boss said he was left baffled<\/a> after Davis, who had publicly pushed for the fight, pulled out once the money was on the table.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cListen, I\u2019m an old man. I don\u2019t know what the thinking is. I don\u2019t have any goddamn idea. We went out and tried to make this fight for him because he shot his mouth off that this was the fight he wanted.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>How the Keyshawn Davis deal collapsed<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Davis was installed as Haney\u2019s WBO mandatory challenger after outpointing Nahir Albright in May, despite missing the 140lb limit for that bout. He had rejected a reported $3m offer from Top Rank, sending the contest to a purse-bid hearing that Top Rank won with a bid of $8.55m, seeing off Teofimo Lopez\u2019s Takeover Promotions. Under the sanctioning body\u2019s 75\/25 split in the champion\u2019s favour, Davis stood to bank around $2.14m \u2014 before he removed himself from the fight entirely.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It is a sharp turn for a fighter who claimed the WBO lightweight title only last year, stopping Denys Berinchyk in the fourth round, and who had been chasing a second world honour at 147lbs. As <a href=\"https:\/\/boxingnewsonline.net\/news\/arum-on-keyshawn-davis-pull-out-of-haney\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Boxing News Online<\/a> reported, the self-styled \u2018Businessman\u2019 has offered no clear public explanation.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">For now, Haney is left hunting a new opponent and Arum a straight answer. Whether Davis re-enters the welterweight title picture, or the WBO orders a fresh mandatory, is the next thread to watch.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Keyshawn Davis has withdrawn from his mandated WBO welterweight world title fight with Devin Haney \u2014 and his&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":846993,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[571],"tags":[64,63,25280,802,1920,64839,47055,85,14849,9995],"class_list":["post-846992","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-boxing","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-bob-arum","tag-boxing","tag-boxing-news","tag-devin-haney","tag-keyshawn-davis","tag-sports","tag-top-rank","tag-welterweight"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/846992","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=846992"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/846992\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/846993"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=846992"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=846992"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=846992"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}