Andy Cruz: Keyshawn Davis ‘Doesn’t Want to Fight Anyone Who Can Fight’ – Accuses WBO Champ of Avoiding Top Competition

Andy Cruz showed his dislike for the fearful way ‘The Businessman’ Keyshawn Davis is going about his career, telling his followers on X that the WBO lightweight champion isn’t willing to “fight anyone who can fight.”

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Keyshawn is being maneuvered well by his promoters at Top Rank, as they want him to become a star, and if they put him in with Andy Cruz, he’d likely lose, and they’d have wasted their investment. They were doing a good job with Edgar Berlanga when he was with them. The same with Shakur.

“Fearful” Tactics

#1 WBC 135-lb contender Cruz is finding out the hard way how tough is to get the top fighters in the lightweight division to fight him. He’s had no luck encouraging his former foe Keyshawn to fight him.

Keyshawn’s Last Five Opponents

– Denyks Berinchyk
– Gustavo Lemos
– Miguel Madueno
– Jose Pedraza
– Nahir Albright

The Cuban talent beat Keyshawn four times in the amateurs and schooled him in the 2020 Olympic finals to capture the gold medal. Typically, fighters that come out of the Olympics are willing to avenge their losses, but Keyshawn is the exception. He takes a businessman’s approach to his career, selecting opposition carefully and steering around fighters that would pose a threat.

The 2020 Olympic gold medalist Cruz (5-0, 2 KOs) has been calling out Keyshawn (13-0, 9 KOs), trying to get him to agree to fight him, but he’s not interested. He’d rather face lesser threats, like Denys Berinchyk and Gustavo Lemos.

Davis said recently that he intends on fighting Andy Cruz before he moves up to 140, but that doesn’t look likely to happen. The Norfolk, Virginia native Keyshawn might have one or two fights left in him before he’s forced to move up to 140 due to his huge size.

Weight and Wait

He looked like one of the zombies from the ‘Dawn of the Dead 2’ making weight for his last fight against WBO lightweight champion Denys Berinchyk on February 14th. After he rehydrated, he looked like a middleweight and crushed the much smaller Berinchyk in four rounds with his size more than anything.

If Andy Cruz is going to fight Keyshawn one of these days, it’s going to have to happen at 140 or more likely 147, because he’s not going to face him at 135. After Keyshawn gets his next fight out of the way against Edwin De Los Santos, he’ll take a fight aganist the best name Top Rank can dig up before he likely moves up to light welterweight.