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Trainer Greg Hackett will pick Keyshawn Davis to knock out WBO lightweight champion Denys Berinchyk in their next fight on February 14 at Madison Square Garden in New York. Hackett believes the 36-year-old Berinchyk (19-0, 9 KOs) is no longer in his prime and is perfect for Keyshawn (12-0, 8 KOs).
Davis is not a knockout and was injured trying to KO Nahir Albright. Berinchyk has more than enough skill and power to expose Keyshawn and show fans that he is still the same fighter that Andy Cruz beat four times.
Top Rank is hyping Davis like crazy, trying to make him a star without putting him in a risky fight against Cruz or some of the other killers.
They made a mistake in their last fight with Berinchyk when they pitted popular Mexican fighter Emanuel Navarrete against him, only to see the Ukrainian talent beat him. Now it’s Keyshawn’s turn. If he loses this fight against Berinchyk, you can bet Top Rank will keep their fighters well away from him.
“Keyshawn struggled in his last performance (against Gustavo Lemos). He’s got a guy who’s tough in front of him. This guy, Berinchyk, isn’t sweet, but he’s not in his prime. He’s past his prime. He can wrestle and all of that, but he’s past his prime,” coach Greg Hackett said YSM Sports Mediatalking about WBO lightweight champion Denys Berinchyk, whom Keyshawn Davis will challenge next February 14th.
“I think Keysahwn is going to work him and stop him in the eighth round. He’s going to work him, though. Good jab, good right hand. Keyshawn in this fight is going to have to slow things down. Don’t run out looking for a knockout. I’m not saying who went out looking for a knockout against Lemos.
“That happened because Lemos was forcing the action. In this one, Berinchyk is going to be a little more strategic. He’s going to be biting him a little bit. So in this one, he (Davis) has to take his time, break him down , go to that body a little bit, sneak some uppercuts in there and sneak some hooks in there,” Hackett said.
Davis’ win over Gustavo Lemos was due to his fight with a slow, short 5’5 1/2″ fighter who was coming off a loss to Richardson Hitchins and had depleted from 140 to take the fight. Keyshawn handpicked it. Davis saw Lemos defeated by Hitchins.
Here are the questions you have to ask Davis: Why pick a fighter coming off a loss to fight at light welterweight? Andy Cruz was available at 135, and had already beaten Keyshawn four times.
“Keyshawn is going to slow him down and in the eighth round he’s going to stop him. Not the home, but this one, we’ll talk a little bit, but not the home,” Hackett said when asked if this fight will make Keyshawn Davis will be a household name if he gets the win against Berinchyk.
“For the home, it’s going to need a Teo (López), it’s going to need an ‘Africa’ (Richardson Hitchins). It’s going to need someone to be a home. It’s got to be one of them, ‘Oh, okay.’ This is: ‘ Oh, okay, I see you, but I need an oh, okay. You’re not screwed,” Hackett said.
For Keyshawn to become a household name, he will need to beat these fighters:
Unfortunately, Keyshawn probably won’t wrestle any of these guys, so he may never become a household name. It will only be known to boxing fans. What he should do is move up to 147 and face Jaron ‘Boots’ Ennis to see if he can beat him. It is the same size as Boots and if it wins it will be a household name.
He probably won’t, though, because Ennis would beat him and he wouldn’t want to take the risk. Keyshawn should fight at 147 because he is a size welterweight. If Boots wanted to game the system he’d do the same thing as Keyshawn by cutting down to 135 to fight smaller guys, but he’s brave and wouldn’t make a weak move like that.
“If he gives me two bodies, we need one more. I need three I need them to be down a lot,” Hackett said when asked if Keyshawn needs a knockout against Berinchyk. “This is going to be a good one, though. Berinchyk will pull out some tricks. That’s why I say Keyshawn needs to be patient.
Keyshawn isn’t a knockout, so Hackett was wrong about him because he’s never been that type of fighter. His recent KO against Lemos was due to him fighting a small 5’5″ guy with no hand speed who fought like a Neanderthal man. It was made to order for him or any fighter at 135.
“Don’t be greedy in this fight. Pick your jobs. Don’t be greedy. Not everything, but he’s going to have to take out a couple of teams,” Hackett said of Davis. “He’s going to carry everything, but he’s not going to need the big bag, but he’s going to need a bag,” Hackett said of whether Davis will have to carry everything to defeat Berinchyk.
Davis will get greedy and try to score a knockout against Berinchyk. This will result in him being shredded as he was in his fight against Nahir Albright, who staggered him in the eighth round when he attempted a KO.
“He won’t have to carry everything because it won’t be all in front of you,” Hackett said. “Sometimes, we think we need a lot, but sometimes, all you need is a basic jab, a basic right hand and a basic hook with good distance. Sometimes that’s all you need. It might take a little more than that, but you won’t need it all.
“That’s what we think sometimes. She just needs a good, sturdy bag,” Hackett said, sounding like a cheerleader for Keyshawn.
Davis will need a lot more than a “study bag” to defeat Berinchyk because this guy is technically a better fighter than him, with a lot more amateur and professional experience. Keyshawn was discovered by Cuba’s Andy Cruz, who beat him for the fourth time at the 2020 Olympics. It again exposed him to be a limited fighter with little more than one hit.