{"id":466950,"date":"2026-03-10T01:34:07","date_gmt":"2026-03-10T01:34:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/466950\/"},"modified":"2026-03-10T01:34:07","modified_gmt":"2026-03-10T01:34:07","slug":"keyshawn-davis-says-he-is-moving-up-in-weight-for-championship-fight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/466950\/","title":{"rendered":"Keyshawn Davis says he is ‘moving up in weight for championship fight’"},"content":{"rendered":"

Keyshawn Davis<\/a> has been linked to a move up to welterweight in recent weeks and it seems as though \u2018The Businessman\u2019 will soon make the jump, with a date for a \u2018championship fight\u2019 up at 147lbs supposedly set.<\/p>\n

Davis was stripped of his WBO lightweight world title when he missed weight ahead of a planned first defence against Edwin De Los Santos last June. He then headed to super-lightweight and knocked out Jamaine Ortiz in the final round of their bout on the Teofimo Lopez vs. Shakur Stevenson undercard.<\/p>\n

During the aftermath of that win, the Norfolk-born superstar called for a shot at reigning WBO welterweight world champion Devin Haney, who agreed to the contest originally<\/a>, before negotiations stalled.<\/p>\n

As a result, it seemed as though Davis could remain at 140lbs, but in an interview with FightHub<\/a>, the 27-year-old revealed that he has a date for a \u2018championship fight\u2019 as he prepares for a debut at 147lbs.<\/p>\n

\u201cI definitely got a response [from the people I called out] and I definitely got a date too. I\u2019m telling y\u2019all that right now, and I\u2019m definitely coming back sooner than y\u2019all think. That is why you seen me doing a little politic in the gym.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s politic, but I am staying sharp, for real. Don\u2019t get that f***ed up, I am staying sharp. I got something coming up.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think that I am moving up [to 147lbs]. Yep, [for a championship fight].\u201d<\/p>\n

Haney appeared to be close to securing a unification bout with WBA champion Rolando Romero, whilst Lewis Crocker (IBF) is rescheduling a clash with Liam Paro due to an injury<\/a>, and Ryan Garcia (WBC) is looking elsewhere. Where Davis fits in remains to be seen.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Keyshawn Davis has been linked to a move up to welterweight in recent weeks and it seems as…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":466951,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[2560,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-466950","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-boxing","tag-boxing","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/466950","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=466950"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/466950\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/466951"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=466950"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=466950"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=466950"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}