Keyshawn Davis Comes In Lighter For 140-Pound Debut Than Last 135-Pound Title Fight

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NEW YORK – Keyshawn Davis was lighter Friday morning than he was for his last fight.

The difference, of course, is that the former WBO lightweight champion was almost a pound under the contracted limit this time for his 12-round, 140-pound fight against Jamaine Ortiz on Saturday night at Madison Square Garden. Davis and Ortiz both weighed 139.2 pounds when they stepped on the New York State Athletic Commission’s scale.

Davis was slightly heavier, 139.3, for what was supposed to be a 12-round defense of his WBO 135-pound title on June 7 in his hometown of Norfolk, Virginia. His opponent, Dominican southpaw Edwin De Los Santos, officially weighed 134.7 pounds.

The Davis-De Los Santos bout was canceled because De Los Santos’ former promoter, Sampson Lewkowicz, wouldn’t allow his fighter to face Davis because of what he considered a dangerous weight disadvantage.

Davis was stripped of his WBO belt. He’ll fight for the first time in 11 months when he opposes Ortiz in the co-feature of “The Ring 6” card headlined by Teofimo Lopez and Shakur Stevenson.

The official weights for all five fights on “The Ring 6” show are listed below.

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Junior welterweights, 12 rounds for Lopez’s Ring/WBO titles

Teofimo Lopez (22-1, 13 KOs), 139.6 pounds, Las Vegas
Shakur Stevenson (24-0, 11 KOs), 138.6 pounds, Newark, New Jersey

Junior welterweights, 12 rounds

Keyshawn Davis (13-0, 9 KOs, 1 NC), 139.2 pounds, Norfolk, Virginia
Jamaine Ortiz (20-2-1, 10 KOs), 139.2 pounds, Worcester, Massachusetts

Featherweights, 12 rounds for the vacant WBC title

Bruce Carrington (16-0, 9 KOs), 125.6 pounds, Brooklyn
Carlos Castro (30-3, 14 KOs), 125.2 pounds, Phoenix

Heavyweights, 10 rounds

Jarrell Miller (26-1-2, 22 KOs), 317.6 pounds, Brooklyn
Kingsley Ibeh (16-2-1, 14 KOs), 288 pounds, Phoenix

Welterweights, 8 rounds

Ziyad Almaayouf (7-0-1, 1 KO), 141.2 pounds, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
Kevin Castillo (5-2-1), 140.8 pounds, Quito, Ecuador

EDITOR’S NOTE: The middleweight title fight between WBC champ Carlos Adames and Austin “Ammo” Williams was canceled Friday morning. Williams weighed in at 159.6 pounds, but Adames withdrew from their bout because of an illness. The times listed above could change as a result.

Keith Idec is a senior writer and columnist for The Ring. He can be reached on X @idecboxing.