Keyshawn Davis took another step forward in his young career.
The 24-year-old lightweight contender dropped and outboxed Francesco Patera en route to winning a near-shutout decision in a 10-round bout on the George Kambosos Jr.-Maxi Hughes card Saturday in Shawnee, Oklahoma.
The official scores were 100-89, 100-89 and 99-90. Boxing Junkie also scored it 100-89 for the Olympic silver medalist from Norfolk, Virginia.
Davis (9-0, 6 KOs) outboxed Patera (28-4, 10 KOs) throughout the one-sided fight, landing a much higher percentage of his punches than his opponent. The Belgian, fighting in the U.S for the first time, was competitive and game but he had difficultly landing clean punches.
The most dramatic moment came with about a minute to go in Round 8, when a right hand from Davis put Patera on his behind and stunned him.
However, Patera quickly recovered and continued to fight back until the final bell.
Davis was impressed with his performance.
“I give myself a C+ or B-,” he said. “But like I said, we got the win, and that’s all that matters. I can’t really be too hard on myself if I don’t stop these guys because they have way more experience than me. But, at the end of the day, I am beating them unanimously in every round.
“I just got to take my hat off for just doing the little things like that, sticking to my game plan, listening to my coaching and just having fun in there.”
