Light-weight contender Keyshawn Davis (12-0, 8 KOs) spectacularly destroyed Gustavo Lemos (29-2, 19 KOs) in two rounds on Friday night time earlier than a sold-out crowd of 10,568 on the Scope Area in Norfolk, Virginia. Davis dropped Lemos thrice in spherical two. Davis, who captured Olympic silver on the Tokyo Olympics, established himself as a headliner in his first principal occasion. He’s rated #3 at light-weight by the WBC, WBO and IBF.
“I had no hesitation. Me and my group, we caught to our weapons. We stated if he is available in an excessive amount of over we ain’t gonna battle. However he adopted his recreation plan, and he didn’t come an excessive amount of over (on the weight examine on Friday morning), so we had a battle and we gave a spectacular night time,” Davis stated. “I didn’t really feel no energy in him. I truly sat again on the ropes one little second, and I let him throw his overhand that he loves and I felt it on my shoulder. And I checked out my brothers and gave them that face like, no, not sufficient (energy). It ended within the second spherical so possibly he didn’t actually get an opportunity to hit me.”
Davis landed 76.5 % of his energy pictures, whereas Lemos linked on solely 13 punches. That advised the story of the one-way site visitors that introduced the ‘757’ followers to their collective ft.
Middleweight: Within the co-feature, Keyshawn’s Olympic teammate, Troy Isley (14-0, 5 KOs), gained a gritty 10-round resolution over Tyler Howard (20-2, 11 KOs) to retain his NABO belt. Isley, from Alexandria, Virginia, picked up his third victory of 2024 and maintained his WBO world rating. Scores: 99-91 2x and 98-92.
Light-weight: Abdullah Mason (16-0, 14 KOs) overcame his first intestine examine as a professional, surviving a pair of first-round knockdowns to knock out Yohan Vasquez (26-6, 21 KOs) with a left hand to the physique in spherical two. Mason suffered a flash knockdown early within the first, then scored a knockdown of his personal halfway by way of the spherical. As he went for the end, Vasquez landed a peach of a counter left hand. Mason survived the spherical, got here out possessed within the second, and knocked out Vasquez at 1:59 of the spherical.
Junior Welterweight: Kelvin Davis (14-0, 7 KOs) continued the DB3 momentum, outboxing Colombian veteran Yeis Solano (15-4, 10 KOs) en path to an eight-round unanimous resolution win. Davis knocked down Solano within the closing seconds of the battle to place an exclamation level on the proceedings. Scores: 80-71 and 79-72 2x.
Middleweight: Virginia native Austin Deanda (16-0, 10 KOs) overcame a spirited problem from DeAundre Pettus (12-3, 7, KOs), edging out an eight-round unanimous resolution by scores of 77-75 2x and 78-74.
Junior Middleweight: The youngest combating member of DB3, Keon Davis (1-0), had a profitable skilled debut with a four-round unanimous resolution over Jalen Moore (1-2, 1 KO) by scores of 40-36 3x. Davis damage Moore with a number of pictures within the fourth spherical, however the native of Dallas, Texas, survived to listen to the ultimate bell.
Junior Light-weight: Rising prospect Robert Meriwether III (8-0, 3 KOs) picked up his fourth win of the yr, turning away a difficult Eric Howard (6-3, 1 KO) over six rounds. Scores: 60-54 and 59-55 2x.
Featherweight: Former junior featherweight contender Raeese Aleem (21-1, 12 KOs) made a triumphant ring return, dominating Derlyn Hernandez (12-3-1, 10 KOs) over 10 rounds after a virtually 18-month layoff. Ring rust was no subject, as Aleem scored a knockdown in spherical 5 and prevailed by scores of 100-89 3x.
