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Terence Crawford Reacts To Keyshawn Davis Missing Weight As Edwin de Los Santos Fight Gets Cancelled

Terence Crawford reacts to the Keyshawn Davis weight miss saga.
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Keyshawn Davis' fight against Edwin De Los Santos that was scheduled for tonight was cancelled after Davis came in significantly overweight for the fight. He was stripped of the WBO lightweight title as a result.

The fight against De Los Santos has since been called off altogether, and De Los Santos' promoter Sampson Lewkowicz, has since issued a statement explaining what led to the decision.

We renegotiated 10 pounds, more money, but we concluded that Davis never tried to make weight; He was dancing on the scale. I didn't want what happened to Haney and Garcia to happen. We canceled the fight.
Sampson Lewkowicz

Terence Crawford, who has a close personal relationship with Davis, has now reacted to the incident. Speaking after Davis' weight miss, he told FightHype:

He said he outgrew the weight. Nobody knows his body. It's time to move up.

When asked whether Crawford himself ever felt the same way about outgrowing a weight class, he said:

Yeah, 45, 40, 47. That's why I moved up. All the weight classes, my last fight in the division was hectic. At 147, before I moved up, it was the same with 40, 35, the same way. I made weight though.

The weight miss potentially signals Keyshawn Davis' time at 135 lbs coming to an end. He is expected to move up to 140 lbs and has already started receiving callouts.

Abdullah Mason vs Jeremia Nakathila will now headline tonight's event.

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Apratim is a Boxing and Soccer reporter for On SI. He has been in the industry for five years, having also worked for The Sporting News, Sportskeeda, EssentiallySports, and more. After coming from an engineering background, he started pursuing a career in sports media. Apratim also holds an MSc. Sport Marketing degree from Loughborough University London and is a keen practitioner of social media and digital marketing. In his spare time, Apratim likes to play an array of sports and practice calisthenics. He is also an avid enthusiast of improving his martial arts skills.