After today’s press conference, Keyshawn Davis admitted to the media that the box of bananas and watermelons sent to his hotel room was from an anonymous source. Still, he assumed WBO lightweight champion Denys Berinchyk sent it to him.
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Davis’ Motives?
During the press conference, Keyshawn treated it as a proven fact that Berinchyk sent it, and he got himself worked up about it. Davis created some drama and acted angry. It looked like staged theatrical drama on Keyshawn’s part, but acting skills were puerile and underdramized.
“Housekeeping showed up at my room and said, ‘Here’s something for you.’ I wasn’t there, but my friend was there, and he asked what it was. The guy kept insisting on bringing it in. So my friend said, ‘F*** it, bring it in,’” said Keyshawn Davis to the media about the box of bananas and watermelons sent to the hotel room that he’s accusing Berinchyk of sending him without proof.
“I opened it, and there was a note on the box. I opened it, and it was a box of bananas and watermelons. I could tell when I was reading it, it was nobody from America that wrote that beccause we know how to speak proper English. Not only that, at the end of the message, it said, ‘Businesswomen.’ He [Berinchyk] called me a businesswomen yesterday. So that’s just icing on the fake,” said Davis about Berinchyk.
Playing The Victim?
The problem with Keyshawn’s story is that everybody heard that Berinchyk called him “Businesswoman” yesterday. This wasn’t just something that the two of them knew. The fans and the media heard Berinchyk call him a “businesswoman.” So, anyone could have sent the box and note. For Davis to treat it as a fact that Berinchyk sent the stuff to him, it shows that he’s playing the victim, trying to create sympathy and hype.
“I just wanted to show to the media that he’s a racist. He just made this fight a little more personal,” Davis continued. “I feel like his style is going to play right into mine. It’s going to be an easy fight, a first-round knockout. He’s just so small. You seen the size difference up there. He keeps talking about me making weight as if my making weight was ever a problem. He sees himself that I’m big. He’s got some worry in him, and that’s why he brought those bananas and watermelons to my room,” said Keyshawn.
The reason Berinchyk told Keyshawn to make sure he makes weight is because of how drained he’s looked this week. He looks scrawny. Moreover, Keyshawn is huge when he rehydrates for his fights at lightweight, and it’s obvious that he’s a welterweight, another one of the many weight bullies in the sport.
If Keyshawn had to fight where he should be at 147, he’d have major problems going against the likes of Jaron Ennis. Davis is not good enough to beat fighters his size; hence, he chooses to melt down to fight at 135 to have a size advantage.
Last Updated on 02/12/2025
