Keyshawn Davis pulled out of his mandated fight with WBO welterweight world champion Devin Haney, and now two-division conqueror Tim Bradley has offered his thoughts on the situation.
Davis knocked out Denys Berinchyk to claim the WBO lightweight world title last year, but he went on to lose the belt on the scales when he missed weight ahead of a subsequently cancelled first defence against Edwin De Los Santos.
The Norfolk contender then moved up to super-lightweight for two outings against Jamaine Ortiz and Nahir Albright before announcing a move up to the welterweight scene in hot pursuit of Haney and the WBO crown.
Yet, after the fight was ordered by the WBO and went to purse bids won by his promoter Top Rank, ‘The Businessman’ decided to turn down a multimillion-dollar purse and pull out of the contest.
On his YouTube channel, Bradley branded it a ‘duck’, criticising Davis for wasting Haney’s time and telling him that he has not done enough in the sport to warrant more than the purse that he was set to make.
“This is [the] damn duck of all ducks from Keyshawn Davis. This doesn’t look good, at all – saying no to this particular fight right here, when you think about everything that he did.”
“[After] everything that he did to put himself in this position and then to all of a sudden say, ‘oh, it ain’t enough money on the table’. Are you kidding me? You are going to take ‘Deebo’ [Haney] through all of this and then you are going to back out of the fight because it ain’t enough money for you?
“Keyshawn, what have you done? You have got to understand, what have you done in the sport, bro? You had a belt for a few months, that is it. I understand that you have got elite skill, I get that, but you haven’t done anything to acquire anything more than what you just got [offered].”
Haney seems set to move on from the bout and the Californian is believed to be in talks for a potential unification with newly-crowned IBF welterweight world champion, Liam Paro, according to Fox Sports Australia.
