Spurned consumers tend to have long memories, however, which is among the reasons why tickets for Davis’ rematch with Nahir Albright on Saturday night haven’t sold as quickly as his promoter, Top Rank Inc., had hoped. Davis’ performance against Albright is therefore important for the former WBO lightweight champion beyond the common motivation for prizefighters.

Davis, 27, doesn’t just need to beat Albright more convincingly than he did during their first fight 2½ years ago to build upon the momentum from his 12th-round knockout of Jamaine Ortiz on January 31 at Madison Square Garden. The 2020 Olympic silver medalist must produce the knockout and spectacular performance he promised in a 12-round main event DAZN will stream globally because Davis owes his returning supporters in Norfolk, Virginia, at least that much.

Thousands of them purchased tickets for what was supposed to be Davis’ first 135-pound title defense June 7 at Scope Arena in downtown Norfolk. That fight was canceled because Davis was 4.3 pounds overweight, which prompted promoter Sampson Lewkowicz to remove Dominican challenger Edwin De Los Santos from their bout because he sensed the weight advantage would’ve been too dangerous.

Davis made the weekend worse when he and his younger brother, junior welterweight prospect Keon Davis, got into an altercation with Albright after he defeated older brother Kelvin by majority decision in a bout elevated to the main event.

Almost a year later, Davis (14-0, 10 KOs) will officially fight Albright (17-2, 7 KOs) at Scope Arena. This time they’ll box before cameras and hopeful fans, though probably fewer of them, who want to believe Davis will become what they expected of him before the self-destructive events of 11 months ago.

Ben Davison deserves the criticism he has endured since last weekend in Manchester, England, where he and the other two men in Fabio Wardley’s corner — Rob Hodgins and Lee Wylie — allowed the fighter to take punishment for at least three rounds too long. Head trainers, assistants and/or cut men must save brave fighters from themselves sometimes.

Davison admitted as much after failing the former WBO heavyweight champion in his brutal brawl with Daniel Dubois.

While Wardley desperately needed intervention from his corner, there are instances when even typically compassionate cornermen need an impartial party to point out what was painfully obvious to everyone else. Those are the excessively dangerous scenarios in which referees save fighters and negligent cornermen from themselves.

Howard Foster, of all referees, waited entirely too long to stop what devolved into an alarming bludgeoning of a fighter far too courageous for his own good.

Foster, notorious in the UK for stopping fights too soon, should’ve stepped in long before he finally stopped their slugfest 28 seconds into the 11th round at Co-op Live Arena. Wardley was battered, bloodied and unable to stand up straight.

Wardley’s late-round knockouts of Justis Huni and Joseph Parker in his previous two bouts obviously were taken into account by Foster. But Wardley hadn’t absorbed beatings in either of those wins and clearly wasn’t in any condition to defeat Dubois after taking so many flush punches.

Foster far too often draws warranted criticism for failing to stop bouts at appropriate times. It begs the question of when, then, will the British Boxing Board of Control stop assigning him to officiate fights?

It’s time to respectfully disagree again with our ratings panel.

Dubois, despite his commendable comeback against Wardley in their fantastic firefight, should not be The Ring’s No. 1 contender for heavyweight champ Oleksandr Usyk. That top spot should’ve been occupied by Agit Kabayel before Dubois (23-3, 22 KOs) stopped Wardley (20-1-1, 19 KOs) — forget afterward.

And how, exactly, do we justify ranking Dubois ahead of Tyson Fury?

Granted, the former WBC champ wasn’t overly impressive against Arslanbek Makhmudov last month. Fury (35-2-1, 24 KOs), who’s ranked third, still pushed Usyk (24-0, 15 KOs) on his way to losing their two title fights by split decision and unanimous decision, whereas the unbeaten Ukrainian southpaw knocked out Dubois twice.

That Dubois’ rematch with Usyk wasn’t competitive — in the bout before Dubois beat Wardley, mind you — makes moving him ahead of Kabayel baffling.

■ Vasiliy Lomachenko looked good in dominating George Kambosos the last time we saw the three-division champion in a ring. We nonetheless need to wonder how age (38) and inactivity (two years this week) have affected a gifted fighter famously reliant on his reflexes now that Lomachenko (18-3, 12 KOs) has ended his retirement. That, and who’s willing to pay the first-ballot Hall of Famer the eight-figure purse the Ukrainian southpaw supposedly seeks to fight again?

■ Ronnie Shields is one of boxing’s most respected trainers for good reason. Don’t expect to notice the true benefits of Brian Norman working with one of the sport’s most touted teachers, though, until he faces a more formidable opponent than Josh Wagner. Norman has been matched cautiously in his first fight Saturday night since Devin Haney took the WBO welterweight title from him November 22. The 20-1 odds that favor Norman (28-1, 22 KOs), of Conyers, Georgia, over Canada’s Wagner (19-2, 10 KOs) might not be wide enough. Wagner has lost two of his past three fights, including a lopsided points defeat to Britain's Harlem Eubank in his most recent action, and hasn’t faced someone with Norman’s resume. DAZN will stream their fight as part of the Davis-Albright undercard (8 p.m. ET).

■ Angelo Leo deserves a whole lot better than what has happened to his career since his tremendous 10th-round knockout of Luis Alberto Lopez 21 months ago. The IBF featherweight champ made just one defense of the 126-pound crown he won from Lopez. And now the 31-year-old Albuquerque, New Mexico, native wasted an entire training camp because mandatory challenger Ra’eese Aleem came in 2.8 pounds overweight a week ago for their title fight in College Park, Georgia. Assuming he is relieved of his ordered obligation, Leo (26-1, 12 KOs) should pursue the other champions in a division in desperate need of title unification fights.