{"id":556190,"date":"2026-03-23T22:41:07","date_gmt":"2026-03-23T22:41:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/556190\/"},"modified":"2026-03-23T22:41:07","modified_gmt":"2026-03-23T22:41:07","slug":"keyshawn-davis-accused-of-making-excuses-not-to-fight-bitter-rival-its-the-truth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/556190\/","title":{"rendered":"Keyshawn Davis accused of ‘making excuses’ not to fight bitter rival: “It’s the truth”"},"content":{"rendered":"

A man who knows Keyshawn Davis<\/a> very well has claimed the former world champion is doing everything in his power to avoid a fight.<\/p>\n

Davis is widely regarded as being one of the best talents in all of boxing, beginning when he won a silver medal at the 2020 Olympics in Tokyo.<\/p>\n

After turning professional, he became WBO lightweight champion when he knocked out Denys Berinchyk, though he was later stripped of the title<\/a> when he came in overweight for a defence against Edwin De Los Santos, which was subsequently cancelled.<\/p>\n

Davis returned in January when he moved up to 140lbs and earned a stoppage win over Jamaine Ortiz, and he has since made his intentions known to head up a further weight class and potentially challenge WBO welterweight champion Devin Haney.<\/a><\/p>\n

One man that seemingly doesn\u2019t appear to be on the radar of Davis is Andy Cruz, who beat the American on all four occasions when they met as amateurs, most notably in the gold medal clash of the Tokyo Olympics.<\/p>\n

Speaking to Fight Hub TV<\/a>, Cruz referred to Davis as \u2018his son\u2019, and accused his past rival of making excuses to not face him again.<\/p>\n

\u201cTruth is, my son doesn\u2019t want anything to do with me and I\u2019m letting him enjoy his career on his own. He always talks about me but he\u2019ll always have excuses not to fight.\u201d<\/p>\n

As a professional, Cruz holds a record of six wins from seven fights, after unsuccessfully challenging Raymond Muratalla for the IBF lightweight title back in January, perhaps making it difficult for a fight with Davis to take place anytime soon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A man who knows Keyshawn Davis very well has claimed the former world champion is doing everything in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":556191,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[447],"tags":[703,49,48,82],"class_list":["post-556190","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\/556190","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=556190"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/556190\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/556191"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=556190"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=556190"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=556190"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}