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Why Keyshawn Davis vs. Edwin De Los Santos fight was canceled
Boxer Keyshawn Davis lost his WBO world lightweight title without even stepping into the ring. The belt was stripped from him Friday, June 6 after he stepped on the scale. Davis weighed in at 139.3 pounds, 4.3 pounds over the maximum weight of 135 pounds for his lightweight title defense set for Saturday, June 7 against Edwin De Los Santos, who weighed in at 134.7 pounds. Advertisement That led to the cancellation of the 12-round bout, which would have been Davis' first title defense, in his hometown of Norfolk, Virginia. Top Rank Boxing, the promoter, announced the cancellation of the fight Friday night on X. But the event will go on, with a lightweight bout between Abdullah Mason (18-0, 16 KOs) and Jeremia Nakathila (26-4, 21 KOs) to serve as the main event, according to Top Rank Boxing. Davis (13-0, 9 KOs) had an hour to try to make weight but said he did not intend to try. 'Outgrew the weight,'' he said during an interview with Top Rank Boxing. 'I've been making the weight for over four years now. I just outgrew the weight. I tried. I was up late last night trying to make that weight. I woke up early.'' Advertisement Bob Arum, the CEO of Top Rank Boxing, which promotes Davis, cast doubt on the fighter's efforts to make weight. 'You can tell if a guy is trying to make weight and just can't,'' Arum told Dan Rafael of Fight Freaks Unite. 'You can see that he's dehydrated. That wasn't the case with Keyshawn. He never really tried to make 135. That's my view of what happened.' Davis indicated he still wanted to fight, as did De Los Santos (16-2, 14 KOs), who would have been the only fighter eligible to win the WBO title. But negotiations apparently fell through. Davis, an Olympic silver medalist at the Tokyo Games in 2021, won the WBO title in February with a fourth-round TKO of Denys Berinchyk. He said he plans to move up in weight and fight at 140 pounds. This article originally appeared on USA TODAY: Keyshawn Davis vs Edwin De Los Santos fight canceled. Here's why.
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Why Keyshawn Davis vs. Edwin De Los Santos fight was canceled
Why Keyshawn Davis vs. Edwin De Los Santos fight was canceled Boxer Keyshawn Davis lost his WBO world lightweight title without even stepping into the ring. The belt was stripped from him Friday, June 6 after he stepped on the scale. Davis weighed in at 139.3 pounds, 4.3 pounds over the maximum weight of 135 pounds for his lightweight title defense set for Saturday, June 7 against Edwin De Los Santos, who weighed in at 134.7 pounds. That led to the cancellation of the 12-round bout, which would have been Davis' first title defense, in his hometown of Norfolk, Virginia. Top Rank Boxing, the promoter, announced the cancellation of the fight Friday night on X. But the event will go on, with a lightweight bout between Abdullah Mason (18-0, 16 KOs) and Jeremia Nakathila (26-4, 21 KOs) to serve as the main event, according to Top Rank Boxing. Davis (13-0, 9 KOs) had an hour to try to make weight but said he did not intend to try. 'Outgrew the weight,'' he said during an interview with Top Rank Boxing. 'I've been making the weight for over four years now. I just outgrew the weight. I tried. I was up late last night trying to make that weight. I woke up early.'' Bob Arum, the CEO of Top Rank Boxing, which promotes Davis, cast doubt on the fighter's efforts to make weight. 'You can tell if a guy is trying to make weight and just can't,'' Arum told Dan Rafael of Fight Freaks Unite. 'You can see that he's dehydrated. That wasn't the case with Keyshawn. He never really tried to make 135. That's my view of what happened.' Davis indicated he still wanted to fight, as did De Los Santos (16-2, 14 KOs), who would have been the only fighter eligible to win the WBO title. But negotiations apparently fell through. Davis, an Olympic silver medalist at the Tokyo Games in 2021, won the WBO title in February with a fourth-round TKO of Denys Berinchyk. He said he plans to move up in weight and fight at 140 pounds.
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11-05-2025
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Emanuel Navarrete vs. Charly Suarez Livestream: How to Watch Top Rank Boxing Event Online
Variety and Yahoo may earn commission from links in this article. Pricing and availability subject to change. If you purchase an independently reviewed product or service through a link on our website, Variety may receive an affiliate commission. Some of the best boxers in the world are in the 'America's Finest City' for Top Rank Boxing. For the main event, Mexican boxer Emanuel Navarrete (39-2-1) defends his undisputed junior lightweight title against vs. Filipino Charly Suarez (18-0-0) in a scheduled 12-round bout. Advertisement More from Variety Want to watch Top Rank Boxing online? Here's what you need to know. When Is Top Rank Boxing: Emanuel Navarrete vs. Charly Suarez? Date, Time Emanuel Navarrete vs. Charly Suarez takes place tonight, Saturday, May 10 from Pechanga Arena in San Diego, California. The event coverage starts at 5:30 p.m. ET/2:30 p.m. PT, with the main card starting around 10 p.m. ET/7 p.m. PT. Tickets still available, as of this writing, on You can save $150 off when you spend $500 with promo code VARIETY150, or $300 off when you spend $1,000 with promo code VARIETY300. BUY: Emanuel Navarrete vs. Charly Suarez TICKETS AT Ticket Network Advertisement Meanwhile, also has tickets available. Use our exclusive promo code VAR30 to save $20 off your purchase at Vivid Seats. You can find tickets on too. Emanuel Navarrete vs. Charly Suarez: How to Watch Top Rank Boxing Online Get an ESPN+ subscription here for $11.99/month, which will get you instant access to the livestream for Emanuel Navarrete vs. Charly Suarez online. Unlike pay-per-view events, the boxing event is available to stream online free for ESPN+ subscribers. watch Emanuel Navarrete vs. Charly Suarez on ESPN+ An ESPN+ subscription lets you stream Emanuel Navarrete vs. Charly Suarez, from your smart TV, laptop, tablet or smartphone. You can get ESPN+ for $11.99/month. Advertisement But what's the best value? You can grab the Disney Trio Bundle deal here, which gets you ESPN+, Disney+ and Hulu starting at $16.99/month. The deep discount saves you nearly 40% off versus signing up for each streaming service one-by-one. Get: The Disney Trio Emanuel Navarrete vs. Charly Suarez: How to Watch Top Rank Boxing Without Cable Although the main event is exclusively livestreaming on ESPN+, the undercard airs on cable network ESPN on TV. This means it's available on DirecTV, Fubo and Hulu + Live TV — all of which offer free trials. Sling TV also carry ESPN. Outside of the U.S.? You can also watch Emanuel Navarrete vs. Charly Suarez with a VPN, if you're not in the U.S. You can sign-up for ExpressVPN here starting at just $4.99/month for 24 months and set your location to the U.S. You'll then be able to watch Emanuel Navarrete vs. Charly Suarez on ESPN+ from anywhere in the world. Advertisement Get: ExpressVPN On Saturday, May 10, Emanuel Navarrete vs. Charly Suarez livesteam feed is available on ESPN+ starting at 5:30 p.m. ET/2:20 p.m. PT with the main card starts at 10 p.m. ET/7 p.m. PT. watch Emanuel Navarrete vs. Charly Suarez on ESPN+ Check out the full fight card below, and stream Emanuel Navarrete vs. Charly Suarez on ESPN+ here. Fight Card — ESPN+ Junior Lightweight: Emanuel Navarrete (champion) vs. Charly Suarez — Main Event, Title Fight Lightweight: Raymond Muratalla vs. Zaur Abdullaev — Co-Main Event, Title Fight Super Featherweight: Andres Cortes vs. Salvador Jimenez Welterweight: Giovani Santillan vs. Angel Beltran Featherweight: Albert Gonzalez vs. Jose Guardado Lightweight: Alan Garcia vs. Cristian Medina Garcia Super Bantamweight: Sebastian Hernandez vs. Azat Hovhannisyan Women's Super Flyweight: Perla Bazaldua vs. Mona Ward Super Lightweight: Sammy Contreras vs. Dyllon Cervantes Alvarado Best of Variety Sign up for Variety's Newsletter. For the latest news, follow us on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram.
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14-02-2025
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How to Watch Top Rank Boxing: Berinchyk vs. Davis Online
Billboard and Yahoo may earn commission from links in this article. Pricing and availability subject to change. All products and services featured are independently chosen by editors. However, Billboard may receive a commission on orders placed through its retail links, and the retailer may receive certain auditable data for accounting purposes. Two lightweight boxers go head-to-head in 'The City That Never Sleeps' on Friday (Feb. 14): Denys Berinchyk (19-0-0) battles Keyshawn Davis (12-0-0) in a WBO lightweight title match. The bout is scheduled for 12 rounds. More from Billboard 2025 NBA All-Star Weekend: How to Watch & Stream All the Events Without Cable 'RuPaul's Drag Race' Season 17: How to Watch the Hit Reality Competition Show Online Free How to Watch 'SNL50' Concert & 50th-Anniversary Special Online Without Cable Top Rank Boxing: Denys Berinchyk vs. Keyshawn Davis takes place at Theater at Madison Square Garden in New York City, starting at 5 p.m. ET/2 p.m. PT. The main event is expected to start around 9 p.m. ET/6 p.m. PT. watch Top Rank Boxing: Berinchyk vs. Keyshawn on ESPN+ Want to watch the Denys Berinchyk vs. Keyshawn Davis online? The Top Rank Boxing event livestreams on ESPN+ for subscribers only. If you're not a subscriber, a monthly subscription to ESPN+ goes for $11.99 per month. However, you can go with an ESPN+ annual subscription for $119.99 per year. This saves you 15% compared to the month-to-month subscription price for 12 months. Although Top Rank Boxing has yet to announce each fighter's walkout music for the main event, the boxers usually go out to the ring to the same songs during their matches. Denys Berinchyk typically walks out to 'X Gon' Give It To Ya' by DMX, so this song will likely make an appearance during the boxing event. Meanwhile, Keyshawn Davis's ring walk music is usually 'When We Shoot' by Lil Durk. Top Rank Boxing: Fight Card, 5 p.m. ET/2 p.m. PT Denys Berinchyk vs. Keyshawn Davis (Lightweight) — Main Event, WBO Lightweight Title Match Xander Zayas vs Slawa Spomer (Super Welterweight) Jared Anderson vs Marios Kollias (Heavyweight) Rohan Polanco vs. Jean Carlos Torres (Welterweight) Vito Mielnicki Jr. vs Connor Coyle (Middleweight) Abdullah Mason vs Manuel Jaimes (Lightweight) Delante Johnson vs. Keyshawn Toler (Welterweight) Nico Ali Walsh vs Juan Carlos Guerra Jr. (Middleweight) Denys Berinchyk vs. Keyshawn Davis is streamable on ESPN+ on Friday, Feb. 14, starting at 5 p.m. ET/2 p.m. PT. The main event title bout has an estimated start time of 9 p.m. ET/6 p.m. PT. watch Top Rank Boxing: Berinchyk vs. Keyshawn on ESPN+ Want more? For more product recommendations, check out our roundups of the best Xbox deals, studio headphones and Nintendo Switch accessories.
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14-02-2025
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Abdullah Mason got tested in his last bout — and proved he's built for this
NEW YORK — Abdullah Mason didn't panic. Down for the first time in any of his combined 95 amateur and professional fights, the poised prodigy responded exactly how he and his father/trainer, Valiant Mason, mentally and physically prepared him in the gym. Mason, perhaps boxing's top prospect among Americans, popped up from one knee, quickly regained his composure and went to work after getting dropped just 48 seconds into his 10-round fight against Yohan Vasquez on Nov. 8 in Norfolk, Virginia. A picture-perfect left uppercut by Mason knocked Vasquez flat on his back a mere 33 seconds later. As quickly as promoter Top Rank's executives and matchmakers moved to the edges of their ringside seats at Scope Arena, Mason calmed them down. The 20-year-old Cleveland native landed another left uppercut, which knocked Vasquez off balance. By then, it seemed Mason might take out the rugged Dominican less than two minutes after he surprisingly went down himself. Until Vasquez countered Mason with a left hook similar to the first one that dropped him and sent him to the canvas a second time. Mason used his left glove again to keep himself from going all the way down, with 1:02 to go in the first round. ABSOLUTE MADNESS 🥶Both fighters hit the canvas in a thrilling first round! — Top Rank Boxing (@trboxing) February 13, 2025 Mason wasn't badly hurt after either knockdown, which enabled him to retake control of the action. Once the second round began, Mason, mature beyond his years, went right back to his game plan, as if that frenetic first round hadn't happened. A well-placed left to Vazquez's body dropped him to one knee, temporarily paralyzed him and caused referee Brent Bovell to wave an end to their fight at 1:59 of the second round. Mason's calmness under duress reinforced everything his father instilled in him and his four boxing brothers. 'I definitely had the confidence to know that if I were to get caught with something like that I would be able to come back and do what I did,' Mason told Uncrowned. 'But I wouldn't say that I thought about getting caught with it. I would say just the training in the gym, we had trained for tense moments inside the ring. So, when that happened, you know, I was mentally prepared for it. 'When you're training, it's all mental. Anybody can go through the physical part. Everybody can be as in shape as you can and, you know, have the most endurance, you know, great footwork. But if you're not thinking in there under pressure, it's gonna show how high your IQ is. And I feel like, you know, that was a little bit of pressure for me that night. I thought it through and I got the job done.' The resilient Mason's comeback from those two knockdowns prevented a promotional problem for Bob Arum's company. The resolve he demonstrated amid the first real adversity of his career encouraged Top Rank's decision-makers to bring Mason back to the ring relatively quickly. The skillful, strong southpaw is set to meet Manuel Jaimes in an eight-rounder Friday night on the Denys Berinchyk-Keyshawn Davis undercard at Madison Square Garden's Theater. The bout between Mason (15-0, 13 KOs) and Jaimes (16-2, 11 KOs), of Stockton, California, will be streamed by ESPN+ at approximately 7:30 p.m. ET, about 90 minutes before the three-bout broadcast headlined by Ukraine's Berinchyk (19-0, 9 KOs) and Norfolk's Davis (12-0, 8 KOs, 1 NC) will begin on ESPN. 'Based on his last fight, he has to control his anxiousness to get in there and throw punches with reckless abandon, especially as you rise in level of opponents,' Carl Moretti, Top Rank's vice president of boxing operations, told Uncrowned. 'You know, guys aren't gonna be intimidated as much by the fact that they're fighting you. Veteran guys, guys like [Jaimes] on Friday, I'm sure he's seen this type of thing before. So, it's just a matter [for Mason] of controlling it, being patient and letting his natural skills take over, instead of feeding into the crowd and trying to blast a guy out of there right from the start.' Jaimes, 24, lost a 10-round unanimous decision to former WBA super lightweight champ Rolando 'Rolly' Romero (16-2, 13 KOs) in his last fight. Romero defeated Jaimes by the same comfortable margin, 99-91, on all three scorecards Sept. 14 at T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas. 'He likes to fight for sure,' Mason said. 'If you get in there and bang with him, he gonna bang with you for sure. He lets his hands go. He box a little bit, but I'd say that's one thing, he likes to fight. You know, if I step in there with him, he like to trade. So, I gotta fight smart.' Mason has worked on the 'minute' technical mistake that caused both knockdowns versus Vasquez. If Jaimes hits him with an impactful punch as well, however, Mason is more confident than ever that he can overcome more troublesome moments. The devout Muslim isn't concerned, either, that those two knockdowns have diminished his standing within the industry. 'I look at it like it's boxing,' Mason said. 'It happens. You can't think of it as a bad thing. I mean, you see what happened after I got knocked down, so that's how you come back from something like that. It lets you know what's to come. I feel like that let me know that there's a lot more that I can prepare for, rather than, you know, that happening and me not being prepared for it and me reacting a different way.' Preparation has been the most important component to Mason's ascension both in the professional and amateur ranks since his father first brought him to the gym at age 9. Valiant Mason didn't necessarily think five of his six sons would become boxers. He introduced Amir, Adel, Abdur-Rahman, Abdullah and Ibrahim to the sport primarily to instill discipline and give them something constructive to do. Now that it is the family business, they push each other during strength and conditioning workouts, sparring sessions and during fights. 'A lotta people don't have the privilege to train in the gym with their brothers and father every day,' Mason said. 'I take things from my brothers and they take things from me. It tightens me up and allows me to see certain scenarios in the ring that people can't see because, you know, I got four brothers [that box] and they all got something different in their styles. I take this from this brother, I take that from that brother, and that's five sets of eyes in the gym.' The Mason family moved from Cleveland to Las Vegas during the COVID-19 pandemic. They trained there for two years, before they returned to Cleveland. Abdullah Mason made his pro debut in November 2021 because he didn't want to trudge through another Olympic cycle. He could've qualified to compete in Tokyo in the summer of 2021, but he wasn't old enough for open-class competition at that time. Mason believed he had a style better suited for professional boxing anyway, which he has demonstrated over the past three years. He hopes an impressive victory over Jaimes marks the beginning of a successful 2025. Assuming the heavily favored fighter wins in style, the mild-mannered Mason has no intention of taking to social media to start calling out whoever wins the Berinchyk-Davis fight for Berinchyk's WBO lightweight title, WBC 135-pound champion Shakur Stevenson (22-0, 10 KOs) or WBA champ Gervonta 'Tank' Davis (30-0, 28 KOs). Mason realizes he must make some improvements and gain more experience before he can satisfy his 'Appetite For Smoke,' a promotional statement Mason has embroidered on apparel. 'My father raised me and my brothers to be an honest person in anything that you do,' Mason said. 'You make sure that you're focused. There's no need to do all that. When you're being yourself, that attracts more positivity and attracts what's for you. I know what I wanna attract and I put out that same thing, and this is what I'm getting in return. I'm a good fighter, who's focused, and I'm looking for the graduation right now. 'So, there's no need to do all that extra stuff. As long as we're doing extra in the gym, it'll show. We're just sticking to what we do. A lot of fighters are gonna talk and do what they do to promote the fight. I have nothing against them for that. When we step in the ring, that's a whole other game. You gotta be ready for whatever you put out, whatever you speak. You gotta be ready for that when you step in there and back everything up.'
