Undercard of Ash-Shakur Nafi-Shahid Stevenson vs. Shūichirō Yoshino in April. Ten rounds scheduled at lightweight. For the undefeated American, who is the 57–63 kg Silver medalist from the Olympics in Tokyo a couple of years ago, this will be his first time graduating from the 8-round limit (to which he was stretched by grizzled veteran Juan Carlos Burgos Castillo aka "MiniBurgos" in a step-up last December). For the world-ranked Ghanaian contender (and onetime IBO world titlist, if you find that sort of thing meaningful), it will be a day shy of a year since his last outing, a UD loss to Ryan García that bookended thirty-two consecutive victories since his debut, a TKO loss in 2004.
KD has been on my radar for a couple of years (even before his strong Olympic showing) ...in fact I went on record saying he was better than lightweight's other Davis - as in Tank - and stand by that. Meanwhile, despite the nice on paper record Tagoe is painfully basic. Lopsided decision or TKO.
Good step for Davis, he should win, but this could be a frustrating night for him if Tagoe decides to fight like he did against Garcia. I also quite like Davis and I used to follow him in the amateurs as well. If Andy Cruz manages to fight in the pros, him and Davis would be interesting.
