Keyshawn Davis is quickly becoming one of the most intriguing fighters in the sport of boxing, and it\u2019s not just fans he has left an impression on.<\/p>\n
The 27-year-old from Norfolk, Virginia is 14 fights into his professional career and remains undefeated. He briefly held the WBO lightweight title after beating Denys Berinchyk, but lost the belt on the scales ahead of a cancelled first defence. With some outside of the ring issues cleared up and a move up in weight, it is hard to see something or someone stopping his rise anytime soon.<\/p>\n
Though Keyshawn\u2019s athleticism and boxing IQ shine through, he has won fans due to being a clinical finisher, too. A man that can attest to his power is rising heavyweight contender Richard Torrez Jr.<\/p>\n
Torrez and Davis both took home silver medals at the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games \u2013 held in 2021 due to the COVID19 pandemic \u2013 and were snapped up by Top Rank shortly after to begin their pro campaigns.<\/p>\n
Speaking to Fight Hub TV<\/a>, Torrez looked back to the days of Team USA and recalled competitive spars with \u2018The Businessman.\u2019<\/p>\n \u201cI sparred with Keyshawn Davis. I tell you what, I go hard on Keyshawn, man, cause Keyshawn goes hard.<\/p>\n \u201cPeople are like \u2018oh, Richard, why do you go hard on the lighter weight classes?\u2019 Keyshawn punches like a heavyweight, man. I ain\u2019t going light on him \u2026 When we would spar in the amateurs, we\u2019re cracking. I\u2019m gonna crack back. Just because I\u2019m a heavyweight doesn\u2019t mean nothing, you\u2019re world champion level, we\u2019re sparring.\u201d<\/p>\n Davis became the first man to stop tricky and durable Jamaine Ortiz in January.<\/a> It was his debut at 140lbs, however he has since confirmed that he is likely to move straight to 147 for his next outing<\/a>, targetting the likes of Devin Haney and Ryan Garcia. According to Torrez, his power will carry up just fine.<\/p>\n As for the heavyweight contender, his IBF final eliminator with Frank Sanchez was recently postponed due to an injury for the Cuban. Torrez will look to tick over and get it rescheduled quickly, particularly as the belt, currently held by Oleksandr Usyk, could soon become vacant.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Keyshawn Davis is quickly becoming one of the most intriguing fighters in the sport of boxing, and it\u2019s…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":531999,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[447],"tags":[703,49,48,82],"class_list":["post-531998","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-boxing","tag-boxing","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/531998","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=531998"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/531998\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/531999"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=531998"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=531998"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=531998"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}