Keyshawn Davis won the WBO lightweight title from Denys Berinchyk on February 14, 2025, knocking him out with a left hook to the body at 1:45 of the fourth round at The Theater at Madison Square Garden. Davis dropped Berinchyk twice, first with a body shot early in the third round, and closed as a -600 favorite at ESPN BET.
The fight is over, so this page is now its record. Davis has since moved up in weight, and his next title shot, against Devin Haney for the WBO welterweight belt, was targeted for October 3, 2026.
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How the fight ended
Berinchyk, making the first defense of the belt he won by upsetting Emanuel Navarrete in May 2024, came in unbeaten and left 19-1 with 9 knockouts. He got to one knee after the final body shot and did not beat the count. Davis improved to 13-0 with 9 knockouts and one no contest.
ESPN Research put the -600 closing price in context: it made Davis the biggest favorite of any lightweight title challenger since 2018. He won the title in his 14th pro bout, tied with Oscar De La Hoya for the third-fewest fights needed to win a lightweight world title.
How this page’s picks did
This page backed Davis to win at -800, and he did. The rest of its card lost, because every other pick depended on the fight going late:
- Keyshawn Davis to win (-800): won
- Over 10.5 rounds (-270): lost; the fight ended in round 4
- Fight to go the distance, Yes (-225): lost
- Keyshawn Davis by decision (-125): lost; he won by knockout
- Fight to go the distance (-225): lost
The pick was right and the reasoning about the fight’s length was wrong. Berinchyk had never been stopped, and the prediction leaned on that; Davis stopped him inside four rounds.
What happened next
Davis never defended the lightweight belt. Before his first defense, against Edwin De Los Santos in Norfolk, Virginia, in June 2025, he weighed in at 139.3 pounds, 4.3 over the limit, and was stripped. “I outgrew the weight,” he told ESPN.
He moved up after that. ESPN reported him stopping Jamaine Ortiz in his junior welterweight debut and beating Nahir Albright by unanimous decision in May 2026, and on July 31, 2026, Top Rank won the purse bid for his WBO welterweight title fight with Haney, with October 3 suggested as the date. Davis was 15-0 with 10 knockouts at that point, and Haney 33-0 with 15.
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