Keyshawn Davis 134.2 vs. Gustavo Lemos 141.4
(WBO International, IBF Intercontinental and WBC USA lightweight titles, however Lemos was overweight and therefore ineligible to win the titles)
Troy Isley 158.9 vs. Tyler Howard 159.8
Abdullah Mason 135.7 vs. Yohan Vasquez 134.2
Kelvin Davis 142.5 vs. Yeis Solano 142.7
Austin Deanda 158.3 vs. DeAundre Pettus 159.9
Keon Davis 148.7 vs. Jalen Moore 150.4
Robert Meriwether III 131.7 vs. Eric Howard 131.4
Raeese Aleem 126.9 vs. Derlyn Hernandez 126.9
Venue: Scope Arena, Norfolk, Virginia
Promoter: Top Rank
TV: ESPN+
Surprised this fight is still happening – they’re a full weight class apart (technically two weight classes apart)
Yea but Keyshawn lot better boxer than lemons so he won’t be on risk
See this is the fans supporting cheating against Black fighters. Turning a blind eye.
Wont be at risk smh. I’ll spell it out.
1. You dont know Gustavo Lemos is a puncher.
2. You Dont know Gustavo Lemos just gave Hutchinson all he could handle.
3. Dont understand Keyshaun had to weaken himself.
You Simply dont know s&!t about Boxing.
Not sure why anybody surprised. Cheating against black fighters is perfectly acceptable in this sport.
Come in heavy and loaded. It doesnt matter, the fans will support it.
Coming in 6lbs over is flagrant.
Wont be surprised he’s on PEDs also.
Raeese Aleem is back!
Lemos fought at 140 in April. Why on earth would anyone, especially Lemos & his team, think he can make 135?
In all rights, it should not be happening. I honestly don’t know why fighters like Keyshawn and Haney go along with this kind of thing. It only normalizes the dirtiness that pervades the sport.
Best thing they could do is just cancel the event. The fans will not be happy, but it’s better overall for everybody involved and the sport of boxing itself.
– Wow, 6 pounds overweight on a 135-pound max weight fight………..
I concur with all of the statements before mine, makes this more of a difficult fight than it already was.
You wrong
It means lemons is not well prepared
So…Davis by ko
Once again, another fighter (Lemos) missed the weight limit to gain an advantage(s) on fight night.
This is all designed to cheat for a possible victory, and fighters take that chance because some fans (or many) will accept a possible victory by wrongful acts.
There is nothing fair about one fighter making weight through extra effort/s (Davis) and another fighter (Lemos) purposely missing weight to use less energy/efforts before fight night. These things have a slight tendency to occur in big fights.
Such wrongful acts are purely intentional, and no fighter should receive an excuse(s) or a “pass” for it. If Lemos defeats Davis, I believe objective fans should not celebrate it. If Davis wins, it remains sad because Davis had to confront more potential danger defeating a cheating fighter – boxing is already dangerous on equal grounds, a wrongful act(s) may sharply increase the danger.
Davis should not fight Lemos. Lemos should receive a heavy suspension from boxing authorities and pay a heavy fine to Davis and/or to boxing authorities. Otherwise, missing weight for a big fight will increase.
Ray Robinson used to fight middleweights when he only weighed 150. Charley Burley would fight guys that outweighed him by
15-20 pounds. Back in the day that was the
only way many of those fighters could get fights. There were no rehydration clauses.
Fans were not outraged just because one guy was 10 pounds heavier than the other guy. Weight classes back then went 135, 147, 160, 175, HWT. There were no super or
junior weight classes. Those were real men
back then. They didn’t wear earrings and
walk around with man buns on top of their
heads. They didn’t walk into churches wearing flip flops and shorts. They didn’t let
women fill combat roles in the military. No
women cops or correctional officers. Men
knew what was expected of them back then.
Welcome to the 21st century. God help us.
Geez…did you take the time to read this garbage before you posted it? You sound like you have brain damage.
Why aren’t you outraged that Lemos is not being a “real man” and fight at the contracted weight that he agreed to and that he gave his word and signed on the bottom line? You’re taking the side of the cheater over the guy who followed the rules?
Because I don’t take this shyt so seriously like you do. Because I don’t care. The garbage I posted is real.
These “fighters” today, and this sport
today is a joke. Davis still agreed to fight him, regardless. You think Davis won’t put on some weight after the weigh-in? Really? That’s the bottom line. Davis still okayed the fight in spite of everything. You must still be wet behind the ears. There are fight fans here much, much older than you are. I’m old enough to recall no cruiserweight division and 15 round fights. Were you even born in the 60’s or 70’s? This sport today is not the same as we older folks remember it.
Much easier to fit fighters into their real weight classes when there were only eight of them. All these extra weight classes have done is decrease the value of “titles” and increase sanctioning fees for these corrupt organizations. Also more difficult for fighters to avoid dangerous matchups by moving to a safer division a few pounds away.
Who are you preaching too, many of us no the game or have also been in it, now go sit yo (A)ss down, Pastor!
You must wear a man bun. Or wear an earring. Something must have triggered you.
Trump has really emboldened you morons huh?
Another sensitive guy easily triggered
by Professor Orange. Did you not get enough participation trophy’s when you were kid? Eat a dick.
Blunderpluss, you make some good points about present day men being softer than back in the day, but for someone who has fought in the regional Golden Gloves at 165 lbs and won, sparring the 178 lbs regional champion in our gym, was a tough proposition, he was too strong. Same as in wrestling. If fighters are of equal ability and are in different weight classes, the heavier fighter wins outright 9 out of 10. Similarly to my age 50 plus Senior Softball team that I play tournaments for. As a 50 Major player and team, we will beat an age 55 Major team 9 out of 10 times, which is why we have to give them 5 runs to balance it out if we play them.
These guys today are obsessed with trying to gain every little advantage. Men of old
would not be deterred by those things. They
would just fight. If they lost, they lost. They
would not make excuses, and they would not take the other guy to court and sue him.
Billy Conn took on Joe Louis and never gave
a rip about a weight advantage. Conn lost,
but he made no excuses about weight. I
weighed 145 and could never find a sparring
partner that wasn’t bigger than me. Them’s
the breaks.
I had once spotted an opponent a lot more than 6 lbs and won.
Once upon a time, Lemos was the IBF mandatory at lightweight for quite awhile, if I recall correctly, and they stripped his ranking because he missed weight in like a tune-up fight so he moved up to 140. It seems as if now he’s outgrown that weight as well.
It wasn’t like Lemos couldn’t make 139.5 lbs, to make it look like he was trying to make it down to the 130s?
He’ll probably sacrifice some pay. If the guy that made 135 is cool w/ fighting a welterweight at the scales (though a small welterweight), then all is good for the fight to go on.
Lemos probably was trying to be like Ryan Garcia vs Haney, coming in heavy and you are still going to fight.
Here we go again. Another fighter deliberately doesn’t make weight just to get an advantage. I wonder how many PEDs this guy is on that he is SIX pounds over the contracted weight. If Garcia missed weight by 3 pounds and had 2 PEDs in his system, Lemos probably has 4 different PEDs that he’s on right now. It’s ridiculous. It’s cowardly. It’s unsportsmanlike. It’s just plain dirty. Boxing is already pretty much dead. It needs to clean up its act and get rid of the scum that’s festering in it’s putrid remains.
Lemos’s team had to know he couldn’t make 135. Back in the day at my gym, we all weighed ourselves after our workouts coming out of the shower.
I sat ringside at the Lemos vs. Hitchins fight in April, which was fought at 140. Lemos is only 5’5″, but I still couldn’t see him at less than 140. Top Rank’s matchmaker should’ve known this!
I’m a natural 147 to 156, back in the day, but I last fought at 175 while weighing 163. I had much more power then the other guy still got hosed in the decision. Bottom line: some people can carry the power up while others can’t. I give Davis credit for continuing to fight.
Much credit to Davis going ahead with this fight. With that being said, hest going to face a fighter who did not have to drain himself and will be at full strength. Lemos is a tough customer who is not easily deterred. I can easily see an upset happening.