{"id":338806,"date":"2025-12-28T06:55:07","date_gmt":"2025-12-28T06:55:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/338806\/"},"modified":"2025-12-28T06:55:07","modified_gmt":"2025-12-28T06:55:07","slug":"former-world-champion-announces-hes-back-after-being-stripped-of-world-title","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/338806\/","title":{"rendered":"Former World Champion Announces ‘He’s Back’ After Being Stripped Of World Title"},"content":{"rendered":"

A highly-rated former world champion is set to make his highly-anticipated return to the ring after he was stripped of his title earlier this year.<\/p>\n

Virginia\u2019s Keyshawn Davis, who is known more commonly as \u2018The Businessman\u2019, will return to the ring for the first since he was stripped of his WBO world lightweight title back in June.<\/p>\n

The unbeaten American was pencilled in to make the first defence of his crown against Edwin De Los Santos on June 7 but came in at 4.3lbs over the lightweight limit which forced the WBO to strip the 26-year-old of his title. <\/a><\/p>\n

Davis hinted that he had actually retired from boxing in the weeks that followed but has now made a u-turn on this decision, after it was revealed that he would be making his super-lightweight debut against Jamaine Ortiz on January 31.<\/p>\n

In footage released by Fight Hype<\/a>, a jubilant Davis confirmed that he is \u2018back in action\u2019 as he assures he is going to be \u2018better than ever\u2019 when he faces his countryman in New York City next month.<\/p>\n

\u201cTold you \u2026 The Businessman is back in action. They just released the news. Wonderful news. Groundbreaking news. Christmas Day news. They just released the news. I told y\u2019all I was gonna be back and better right? I told y\u2019all that right? Didn\u2019t I tell y\u2019all that?\u201d<\/p>\n

Davis\u2019 long-awaited return to the ring against Ortiz is set to take place on the undercard of Teofimo Lopez\u2019s world title defence against Shakur Stevenson at the iconic Madison Square Garden<\/a> in New York City.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A highly-rated former world champion is set to make his highly-anticipated return to the ring after he was…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":338807,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[2560,101,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-338806","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-boxing","8":"tag-boxing","9":"tag-sports","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/338806","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=338806"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/338806\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/338807"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=338806"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=338806"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=338806"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}