Comments Thread For: Keyshawn Davis-Edwin De Los Santos called off by promoter

[Coverdale]

Seeing TheProudLunatic's (aka BodyBagz) ridiculous quotes is a reminder of (1) what an imbecilic loser this guy is and (2) why the forum needs to upgrade its ignore code so quoted posts are also suppressed (FYI Biledriver)

[tokon]

Great decision by his promoter and should be applauded. Hopefully Santos is compensated and Davis fined/ sanctioned.

[JOITATS]

Great way for Keshawn to not only lose respect as a professional fighter,
but also lose the respect of fans who went out of their way to see this fight.

Hope he gets his act together.

I think many guys these days, take being on wgt, not so seriously
because they think their opponents will cave into the pressure and allow the fight to go on regardless....

Ryan Garcia, Luis Nery, Chavez Jr, Broner, Salido come to mind...
There are exceptions of course, but the group above are universally known to be dirty and undisciplined...

[TheProudLunatic]

Seeing TheProudLunatic's (aka BodyBagz) ridiculous quotes is a reminder of (1) what an imbecilic loser this guy is and (2) why the forum needs to upgrade its ignore code so quoted posts are also suppressed (FYI Biledriver)

Covergirl having a hissy fit

[TheProudLunatic]

Why even mention weight when it comes to heavyweights, it's pointless.

Fury outweighed Wilder by an average of 41 pounds, that wasn't what won him the fight.

Nor did his weight help him when he lost to Usyk (career heaviest).

Also Wilder beat guys who had over 100 pounds on him, one almost 200 pounds...

Miller outweighed Dubois by 94 pounds, it didn't help him.

And just for context 41 pounds on an average heavyweight would be less than a 140 fight rehydrating to 165 (18% weight increase).

The average heavyweight is 6'4 and 235, Fury averaged 268 across the three fights (14% above average).

And it could be argued Wilder and KD had/have the same issue, lack of discipline.

Wilder COULD make cruiserweight and then people like you wouldn't cry about him being outweighed, he still would be though.

And lastly of course Heavyweights should be considered for P4P particularly those whom have moved up from cruiserweight/LHW e.g. Usyk, Holyfield, Ezzard Charles, Tunney so on and so forth.

And yet, us fight fans are ready to castrate a guy for coming in 4+ lbs over the limit
I'd love to see a HW move down and have success

[kiaba360]

I didn't care about this match-up anyway, but Keyshawn definitely played himself here. To miss weight for a hometown fight by such an amount makes you question his discipline and desire. Hopefully, TR is already working on his 140lb debut in the next couple months.

[57Blues]

Big mouth guy who could not stop talking and trying to make out that he was some kind of promoter of himself and he skips making weight ? What a clown show, hope someone knocks him out knock him out outside the ring i do not care. Ought to have some kind of rule that if you skip weight by a certain amount (percentage%) ;then you get penalized. But hey drugs are flowing in the lead up to fights fighters are more interested in the ratings on social then in the rankings Boxing when will you get it right. And nobody cares about the fan anymore. Just take what we give you......................slop

[TheProudLunatic]

IDKSAB, so

What's the diff between a HW outweighing his opp by 30+ lbs and this situation

[TheProudLunatic]

He's blew weight by 3% not only that he's allegedly tried to make weight so whats he going to rehydrate to, 165!? like Haney, perhaps more!? (unlikely).

But you've got to understand it's far worse why people are dehydrating themselves to make weight.

Not only do people sometimes die making cuts, it's extremely dangerous during the fight because of lack of hydration around the brain and Davis just gets to skip out on it or not be as severely dehydrated as his opponent giving him a huge advantage.

This issue is even more profound in the modern era because they weigh in 36 hours before the fight giving fighters plenty of time to rehydrate, further exacerbating extreme cuts and the advantage that come from rehydrating.

HWs got it good up there

[Liondw]

Why do so many fighters, maybe more nowadays, try to squeeze into a lower weight and drain themselves?

Obviously to try to gain an advantage, not to say be a weight bully, if the opponents are doing the exact same thing. But yeah, fight at a more natural weight dude, otherwise missing weight by a lot looks unprofessional.