The W.A.D.E. Concept - Keyshawn Davis’s EGO Is RUINING His Career.. - The W.A.D.E. Concept with Wade Plemons

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
All right, so we're back at the way concept presented
by The Ring Magazine. I am just finishing up Most
Valuable Prospects number thirteen in Orlando, Florida, and I wanted
to wait until this card was over, until I fulfilled
my duties as a play by play commentator before I
commented on the absolute bizarre and just self sabotaging nature

(00:22):
of one Kishan Davis. I'm sure by now you guys
have seen that Kishon Davis has completely flipped his reputation
in about a thirty six hour period. If you didn't know,
coming into this weekend, Keishon Davis was a world champion
at one.

Speaker 2 (00:36):
Hundred and thirty five pounds. He had won his first
belt months ago.

Speaker 1 (00:40):
And I'm gonna be honest with you, guys, I haven't
watched every single Kishon Davis interview. You haven't seen how
he's been moving in this scene. But from what I've
seen now, looking back in retrospect, it seemed like key
Sean Davis was buying into the superstar mentality a little
too much. Coming into a hometown fight in his backyard
of Folk, Virginia.

Speaker 2 (01:01):
He was gonna defend his.

Speaker 1 (01:01):
WBO belt against Edwin Delas Santos, and unfortunately that fight
was canceled after Keithshon Davis not only missed weight because
sometimes a missus excusable, but he flat out didn't even
try to make the weight. He missed by four point
three pounds. And if he asked me, waye, why are
you so sure he didn't try to make weight? Well,
for one, he stood on the scale and flexed and
smiled while his picture was taken after missing weight by

(01:23):
a completely unprofessional amount while making the weight for a
world title fight only months ago. So that already is
a red flag if you're looking at Keyshon Davis and
how he handles being a superstar, how he handles being
a top name in the sport of boxing, because let's
be honest, he just now got to the top level
of this sport. He just now became a world champion,

(01:44):
starting to become potentially a household name. Even had the
back and forth with Abdula Mason on press conference day
talking about how he wanted to fight Abdullah at some
point coming up, and funny enough, Abdula Mason saved his
event in Keishan Davis's backyard, operated like a true professional
and went out on fight night and won his fight
in a fourth round stopage, something that Keishan couldn't do

(02:06):
because he couldn't even qualify to fight, not only for
his belt, but at all.

Speaker 2 (02:10):
The fight was canceled. And that's bad enough as it is, because.

Speaker 1 (02:14):
That's your hometown show, and let's be honest here, it's
ESPN's last top rank show. So not only did you
ruin the earnings of this event by showing the people
of your hometown that they weren't important enough for you
to take this seriously enough to make weight, but also
you tried to game the system. And I said the
same thing about Ryan Garcia, how they didn't really care
about the belts, and okay, that's fine, but you're a

(02:35):
world champion and you've signed to make a designated weight,
so I don't care if your body can't handle the
cut to one thirty five move up in wait. Don't
take away from the fans, don't take away from Edwin
Delos Santos who did make the way, who showed up
like a professional, and certainly don't take away from everybody
in your camp that worked hard to put you in

(02:55):
the right positions. I'm sure Bo Mack wasn't too happy
about that as well. And also tonight as the card
was going on, here's a video of Keishon Davis shoving
popcorn down in his gullet. And again, there's nothing wrong
with that, I guess if you're a fan, be a fan.
But that's supposed to be the main event of this card.
A little disrespectful, I think to the people that showed
up to watch him fight, and also again the people
that put it in time and effort for him to

(03:16):
treat this soul blase like it didn't matter at all,
like he was above the belt, like he was above
making weight, like he was above main eventing in his backyard.
And again, the missing weight was just a fraction of
the complete misjudgment and idiotic stance that comes from Kishon Davis.
Because tonight, as the card is going on, Kithshan Davis

(03:37):
and his brother Keon Davis, who is also a professional boxer,
go backstage for whatever reason and jump now here.

Speaker 2 (03:43):
Albright, who has on this card and just won.

Speaker 1 (03:46):
His fight pretty easily and convincingly, and yet is now
in the back of the locker room trying to defend
himself and these two guys that are not on the card,
they're not scheduled to even take place and be a
part of this event. But again, for whatever reason, I
don't know what was said, but really I don't.

Speaker 2 (04:03):
There's no excuse.

Speaker 1 (04:04):
I'll lay out the scene for you. Keyshan Davis in
front of his family in the backstage of the arena
in his home city in Norfolk and with his brother
decided to jump a fighter that had already gone through
a fight.

Speaker 2 (04:17):
Again reasons unknown.

Speaker 1 (04:19):
Quite frankly, I don't care, decided to insert themselves into
a situation they didn't need to be a part of
that makes them look terrible, and to do it in
front of a national TV camera in front of their families. Folks,
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(05:40):
I'm so frustrated by this because it's a young man
with real talent and I'm sure he'll have opportunities in
the future. I don't think this is the end of
his career, but it's certainly gonna be a step back.
I don't know who is gonna look at that and go, Yeah,
that's the person I want to represent me as a commission.
That's the guy that is gonna bring fans to the arena,
not now, not after you purposely miss weight, have your

(06:01):
fight canceled, and then instead of fighting in the main event,
you're a backstage jumping a fighter that already won his
fight to put in the work that made the weight
won his fight. You and your brother are going tag
team in the back part of the arena in front
of friends and family, because that's that's what a professional does, right,
That's what someone that wants to represent this sport and
represent themselves like a professional does.

Speaker 2 (06:21):
No.

Speaker 1 (06:22):
It is It's an absolutely moronic move for Keyshon Davis.
And I don't know that I've seen outside of you know,
being arrested or fighters participating in some sort of illegal activity,
I don't know that I've seen someone just run off
most of their fan base or their potential fan base
in less than forty eight hours like Keyshon Davis has
done this weekend. And again, I don't know who's gonna

(06:43):
trust him in a main event anytime soon, especially at one.

Speaker 2 (06:45):
Hundred and thirty five pounds.

Speaker 1 (06:46):
You best believe you better fight at one forty next fight. Otherwise,
I don't know any promoter that's gonna take that risk.
The WBO has already stripped him at his belt. I
don't think he'll be fighting for it again anytime soon. Again,
it's just an all around complete misjudgment, a lack of
awareness to what an ambassador of the sport does, a
lack of awareness of how much potential he really had

(07:08):
still has.

Speaker 2 (07:09):
Again, his career is not over, but how much.

Speaker 1 (07:11):
Potential he had to gain new fans on ESPN, the
worldwide leader in sports, and you throw it all away
because for as long as Keishon Davis has taken this
sport seriously, he got gold on his shoulder and decided
he was bigger than the sports. That's the way I
read this, that he was bigger than the moment, than
the sport. And listen, I work with the Ring Magazine,

(07:31):
Keyshon Davis works with the Ring magazine. But I'm gonna
tell it like it is. This was just a flat
out miss. But even me, as someone that represents the
Ring Magazine as well, I'm not going to turn a
blind eye to that stuff because it's not what champions do,
it's not what the sport's about. And it's just a terrible,
terrible look for everything that Keishon Davis, all the hard
work that he's put into this sport, all the years

(07:54):
of sacrifice to throw it away over something so silly
as an argument backstage or or four pounds that you
signed to make. It's just unfortunate to see because the
young man is so talented and yes, I was so
excited to see him in Abdulah Mason going back and
forth this week because how fun would that fight be.
Boxing needs those young, fresh matchups at the lower weight classes,

(08:14):
at the higher weight classes, and again, it's just unfortunate.

Speaker 2 (08:17):
I don't think this video is going to be a
very long one. I just had to say it.

Speaker 1 (08:20):
Kishon Davis again, speed running how to lose fans, showing
at the immaturity level, showing just how silly and how
in an instant, quite frankly, you can go from being
on top of the world to completely sabotage on yourself. Anyway, Yeah,
this is why boxing sucks sometimes I'm being honest, But
congrats by the way to Abdulah Mason, and I hear

(08:40):
Albright as well, who performed and put their their reputation
and their careers on the line to go in there
and show the people of Norfolk, Virginia a good show
because Kishan just he couldn't be bothered to do it anyway.

Speaker 2 (08:53):
That's what I think.

Speaker 1 (08:53):
You guys, let me know in the comments what you
think about this entire situation and what happens next for
Kishon Davis.

Speaker 2 (08:59):
I think he needs to get

Speaker 1 (08:59):
His on straight because right now I don't have those answers,
but I guess we'll find out

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