One of America’s great recent amateurs at the Olympics Keyshawn Davis goes back to professional prize fighting this weekend.
Davis is top drawer pedigree. Top Rank did well to scoop him up. Hopefully they promote him better than they did Shakur Stevenson and Terence Crawford.
They’ve done a terrible job on promoting them. In fact, they’ve done an awful job on promoting some fighters in recent years.
They spent too much bloody time trying to be the UFC on social media and forgot their bread and butter, what they used to be good at.
Imitation and copying never works. Be unique. Be different. Be very different to anything or anyone else in history.
That’s the key to success. Always unpredictable.
Matchmaking and building stars was what they were good at. Work more with Haymon, Saudi, Hearn and others will elevate Top Rank and their fighters again, sure, likely it would.
What they really need to be doing though with these young fighters is getting ESPN to turn up a notch of savage on their microphone programming on both linear and digital.
Alas, this guy Davis they have now is a different gravy. He’s learning to sell a fight too with this (all fun and jest):
He shares the same surname as “Tank” incidentally, Davis. Maybe similar to Davis and his clone a little.
Without question Davis knows about him and how good a fighter he is and will be on his radar soon.
Well, if he keeps up his improvement and performances.
Upon brief analysis, you can see some of the “Bud” Crawford in his relaxed, patient rhythm. Happy to break down an opponent piece by piece. Like Bernard “The Alien” Hopkins used to back in the day.
And put a bit of extra “mustard” on the shots as times goes on.
There is a touch of the Nigel Benn in Davis’ improving professional fighting style. Similar low centre of gravity but a much better defence, even now at just 25-years-old.
The man from Norfolk, Virginia is currently 10-0-7 KO.
He’s starting to sit down on the shots and combinations well but with respect to Bomac, his and Terence Crawford’s (the pound for pound number one in boxing) trainer, maybe could work on his footwork being a little lighter and less heavy, flat footed sometimes.
Maybe just a hint it is bringing him a little square on at mid range sometimes before he closes the distance.
No need. He can stay on the outside sometimes if he needs to. Go slim. Don’t need to stay in there that much.
No need to be so square on sometimes and sure, when in the pocket, maybe pivot a little and step off and step back (like he does well at times).
Maybe stepping off to the side, either or, when delivering his shots will make him a little slimmer and less of a target for what’s coming back as calibre of fighter opposition improves.
That and setting up more stuff off the jab too. Up to him.
Respectful observation.
Davis takes on fearless 25-year-old Miguel Madueno of Mexico this weekend who’s 31-2-28 KO so he’s really being thrown in there.
Against a big hitting quality fighter no less — also on the undercard of Shakur Stevenson in Newark this weekend so a big occasion too.
Davis since winning Olympic silver in 2020 at lightweight for America has impressed not just us, but many.
Great fighter and heck of a fight to chuck him in this weekend in his 11th pro fight too.
An American, unlike his nation of the USA, with a bright future himself though fighting on 4th of July this weekend.
