Edwin De Los Santos Gets Title Shot Against Keyshawn Davis On June 7th

Edwin De Los Santos revealed that he’ll problem Keyshawn Davis for his WBO light-weight title on June seventh in Virginia. Keyshawn, 26, is lastly exhibiting some bravery by taking up the heavy-handed Dominican Republic native De Los Santos in his first title protection.

Nevertheless, he’s catching him on the good time, with two years of rust on him and coming off a loss. If not for that, it’s uncertain that Keyshawn and his promoters at High Rank would ever agree to make use of him as a challenger. De Los Santos can be deemed too harmful if he had been lively.

Surprising Shot

Davis is being maneuvered VERY fastidiously by his promoters to maintain him above the water line as a result of he might shortly sink in the event that they threw him in with younger skills like Andy Cruz, Raymond Murtalla, Gervonta Davis, and his good friend, Shakur Stevenson.

#13 WBO-ranked De Los Santos (16-2, 14 KOs) instructed MillCity Boxing the combat in opposition to Keyshawn (13-0, 9 KOs) is “For certain,” and he expects the contract to be despatched tomorrow. Hopefully, Davis doesn’t have second ideas and alter his thoughts about preventing the 25-year-old Edwin as a result of that is most likely pretty much as good because it will get for him.

Keyshawn was speaking loopy after capturing the WBO light-weight title from champion Denys Berinchyk final month on February 14th, saying he wished Isaac ‘Pitbull’ Cruz in his first title protection. He sounded assured that the Pitbull would comply with combat him as a result of he was now the WBO belt-holder.

Keyshawn doesn’t understand that being a champion doesn’t imply something on this period of the game. Belts don’t matter now. These are solely essential for fighters who haven’t any fanbase and want a title to validate them to informal boxing followers.

It’s not splendid for De Los Santos, 25, to combat for a world title after two years of inactivity with out a tune-up. He’s not going to show down the chance. He hasn’t fought since dropping to Shakur Stevenson by a 12-round unanimous choice on November 16, 2023.

Edwin threw away his possibilities of successful that combat by not letting his palms go sufficient, seemingly afraid of being hit with counters from the 2016 Olympic silver medalist. De Los Santos might have gained however didn’t present the hearth that we’d seen from him in his three-round knockout of Jose ‘Rayo’ Valenzuela.

The “Businessman”

It’s not the combat that followers wished to see from Keyshawn as a result of they’ve been pushing him to defend in opposition to his four-time conqueror, Andy Cruz. Sadly, the High Rank-promoted Davis has proven little interest in going through the gifted Cuban after dropping to him within the 2020 Olympics.

That horrible expertise appears to have left a mark on Keyshawn, making him reluctant to face Andy once more. Davis calls himself ‘The Businessman’ since turning professional, and his focus appears to be simply to earn a living. Combating Andy Cruz once more would flip the money move off on the spigot.