'Thee Amazing' Keyshawn Davis' aim is simple: Stop fighters who have never been stopped

Keyshawn Davis has been touting a fiery boast during the buildup toward his homecoming rematch against Nahir Albright tonight, live on DAZN. And it’s anything but a humble brag.

In short, the former lightweight world champion is on a hot streak of knocking out fighters who have never been stopped before. Three in a row to be exact.

• Richardson Hitchins, the former IBF super lightweight titleholder, needed the distance to score a unanimous decision over Gustavo Daniel Lemos. Davis battered Lemos toward a stoppage inside of two rounds.
• Super featherweight world champion Emanuel Navarrete fell to Denys Berinchyk via split-decision. Davis crumpled the Ukrainian fighter with a piercing body shot in the fourth round.
• Jamaine Ortiz outpointed Jamel Herring, and fellow former world champions Vasiliy Lomachenko and Teofimo Lopez needed the distance to edge Ortiz by unanimous decision. Davis almost went the distance with Ortiz too, before making him succumb with a body shot in the 12^th round.

‘The Businessman’ is not only trying to stop Albright as the fourth consecutive fighter who has never been knocked out, but he’s saying he’s going to do it.

This is the equivalent of a baseball player pointing out to the distance before going yard with a home run, Steph Curry launching a 3-pointer and turning around not even bothering to watch it scrape through the nylon, a football player calling his or her shot — with location — and scoring just like that.

“I’m gonna just keep going out here and doing things that people can’t do — which is stop guys that never been stopped before,” Davis told DAZN News during a recent Zoom interview. “People on the elite level that never been stopped, Keyshawn is going out there and stopping these guys.

“You gotta be sharp with Keyshawn with Round 1 to Round 12,” he added, while speaking in third person, “that’s just amazing itself.”

It’s why one of his coaches bestowed ‘Thee Amazing’ ring moniker upon him during training camp for Ortiz.

“He was just watching how I was sparring, watching how I was moving, thinking,” Davis recalled. “He was like ‘You’re amazing, man.’ I liked that name, coming back into the sport after a year layoff with a new everything and a new name, so I took it and ran with it — ‘Thee Amazing.’”

That said, Davis has a dismal history with Albright, largely in part to his own indiscretions. Though Davis defeated the savvy Philadelphia fighter via majority decision back in October 2023, he tested positive for marijuana and the result was turned to a no contest, instead.

Then last June, Davis tipped the scale 4.3 pounds overweight and not only had his homecoming fight against Edwin De Los Santos cancelled, but was stripped of the WBO lightweight world title. What’s worse is Albright defeated Davis’ older brother Kelvin Davis in the co-main event and later told ESPN that Davis’ siblings, Keyshawn and Keon, jumped him backstage at Scope Arena in Norfolk, Virginia.

All this being said, Davis is back at his hometown venue, looking to make amends for that debacle nearly a year ago. A spectacular finishing of Albright might just be the elixir.

Leave it to Davis’ skillset and showmanship to hunt that down. Davis believes publicly vowing to stop the awkward, shifty savvy of Albright will be a driving force in making sure he makes good on his word.

He isn’t sure how that path will present itself come tonight, but is banking on his boxing ability to illuminate it.

“I love to fight. Also, I like challenges,” Davis said. “I know every fight is not gonna be me just out-bullying somebody. Sometimes, you gotta think, sometimes you gotta be patient, sometimes you gotta go in there and bully, sometimes you gotta make adjustments.

"Everything about fighting is just what I love to do.”

Knocking out a fourth straight opponent, who has never been stopped, will only add to fight fans’ growing love for him.