{"id":938826,"date":"2026-10-24T04:00:14","date_gmt":"2026-10-24T04:00:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/938826\/"},"modified":"2026-10-24T04:00:14","modified_gmt":"2026-10-24T04:00:14","slug":"top-rank-cuts-bait-on-keyshawn-davis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/938826\/","title":{"rendered":"Top Rank cuts bait on Keyshawn Davis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">Look, I come from the MMA world, where the leading monopsony has turned stiffing its talent into an art form. I support fighters\u2019 efforts to receive appropriate compensation for giving themselves CTE to please the masses. But Keyshawn Davis might be the most entitled fighter in recent memory. He hadn\u2019t fought once at 147, but Top Rank still managed to slot him in as a mandatory challenger for Haney, only for Davis to spit in their faces. As Hitchins points out, that was more than twice the size of Davis\u2019 largest purse to date, and now he wants three times that for a non-title fight as a free agent.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">If he wants to keep coasting on his talent and credentials, he\u2019s free to do so. Just stop wasting actual fighters\u2019 time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Look, I come from the MMA world, where the leading monopsony has turned stiffing its talent into an&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":938827,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[571],"tags":[64,63,802,1920,85],"class_list":["post-938826","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-boxing","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-boxing","tag-boxing-news","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/938826","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=938826"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/938826\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/938827"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=938826"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=938826"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=938826"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}