The promoter Eddie Hearn wants to see the lightweight champion of the OMB Keyshawn Davis Fight Andy Cruz and Shakur Stevenson Battle Gervonta Davis. The winners of these two fights would be to decide who is the best dog at 135.
That plan does not seem to happen. First, Keyshawn (13-0, 9 kos) says he “He won’t fight Cruz for cents. “He expects great money, and that will not happen. He says that if the money is not there at age 135, Andy Cruz will have to fight him at 140 after he moves. That is whether the fight pays.
Keyshawn’s demands
Cruz is not popular enough for Top Rank or ESPN to offer more mass for that fight than what Keyshawn has been receiving against him 13 Without names He built his record. None of the Keyshawn fighters has fought has been well known. Cruz (5-0, 2 kos) is on the same boat. He has also fought against the dark opposition, and Hearn is not giving him a great promotional impulse as he is doing with Shakur.
Davis, 25, recently captured the lightweight title of Denys Berinchyk’s OMB on February 14, he knocked out in the fourth round. After rehydrating for that fight, it seemed giant, eclipsing Berinchyk in size. Keyshawn looked like a medium rehydrated weight inside the ring that night. I don’t know how he did weight.
“I would like to see Shakur Stevenson against Gervonta Davis and Keyshawn Davis against Andy Cruz. The winners fight against the winners, “said Eddie Hearn to CightHipo.
“I want to fight Andy Cruz before going (up to 140). I’m not fighting him for cents,“Keyshawn said at Shawn Porter’s YouTube Channel on Andy Cruz. “He is not getting money for that shit,” Davis said when he told him that Cruz is the #1 lightweight champion of the WBC Shakur Stevenson.
“I will fight him (Cruz) for the same amount of money I fought. No, sir, ”Keyshawn said that he is not willing to fight Andy Cruz for the same amount of money he has earned to fight the other 13 types in which he has built his record.
So there it is. Keyshawn will not fight Cruz before leaving the division of 135 pounds. That is something good for him because Cruz school as he did in the fans the four times they fought.
No money, without fight
“You have a Latin fighter (Andy Cruz), who does not speak English, that is not from the United States. It is very difficult to promote. That is why we have heard the name of Keyshawn dragged because there is no way to promote it specifically because there are no links with US networks or with people who observe boxing (Note: Cruz fights in Dazn).
“That is why they associate everything (remember fans that Cruz owns 4-0 record against Davis). Keyshawn is right. If he makes cents (paying the same money as his last 13 opponents), it makes no sense. You may have to take it to 140),” Porter said.
“I agree. If you don’t earn money, it makes no sense“Keyshawn said.” If we can earn a lot of money with 140 instead of 135, it has to reach 140. I can knock Canelo, and they would say: ‘I don’t know. That Andy Cruz child. That boy from Andy Cruz beat you four times in fans. I just knocked Canelo, brother. I have to get it, ”said Davis.
Cruz beat Keyshawn the four times they fought in fans. It seems that Davis has found a good excuse to tell fans why he will continue to avoid Cruz. Just tell the public that the fight does not pay. That way, he can preserve his undefeated record for longer.
Keyshawn said on the Porter channel that his promoters in the best range have someone for him to fight below. I would not say who it is, but the smile on his face suggested that he will get the fight he has been asking against Isaac ‘Pitbull’ Cruz below. What a mismatch of size will be that.
Last update on 05/03/2025