KEYSHAWN DAVIS went the 10-round distance for the third time in 4 fights to file a unanimous choice win towards Miguel Madueno on the Prudential Centre in Newark the place all three judges returned a 99-91 scorecard for the American.
The light-weight contender in a celebratory temper when he walked to the ring, flanked by his two brothers, previous to his 11th outing however wouldn’t have anticipated to be nonetheless throwing punches within the closing spherical.
This was as a result of Madueno by no means stopped making an attempt all through and his Mexican machismo drew Davis into exchanges which he was completely satisfied to participate in. Davis was the superior fighter, nevertheless, in each spherical however gave pointless encouragement to his opponent by sitting on the ropes permitting Madueno to throw leather-based.
At distance Davis was lighting Madueno up along with his accuracy and the Olympic medallist confirmed intent early within the combat with hooks to the physique however that tactic was hardly ever repeated. As a substitute, Madueno ate shot after shot and by no means regarded like being stopped.
Issues acquired ugly on the finish of spherical six when each fighters let some pink mist descend as they rubbed heads which led Davis to shove Madueno away with a glove earlier than referee David Franciosi was caught by the Mexican trying to land one on Davis as a substitute of the official. Fortunately for Madueno he solely acquired a speaking to throughout the 60-second breather.
The ultimate few rounds had been untidy with Madueno changing into wilder in his pursuit of Davis. The Virginia native demonstrated precisely what sort of combat it had develop into by mimicking a matador within the closing session.
“He was more durable than I anticipated,” Davis, (11-0, 7 KOs), stated afterwards.
“This was the hardest most bodily skilled combat I had however I had enjoyable in there – I prefer to combat. I’m glad he [Madueno] did that. It was a unique expertise and undoubtedly gonna take quite a bit from it.”
The highly-rated contender refused to name anybody out and as a substitute stated, “I’d be prepared to combat anyone. Whoever Prime Rank wish to put within the ring with me, put me in there with the massive names. The followers wanna see it. I’m not mentioning no extra names, I referred to as out the entire boxing world. They know I wanna combat. Simply ship them a contract.”
