Lightweight Keyshawn Davis (12-0, 8 KOs) made a statement Friday night, knocking out towering 155-plus pound junior middleweight Gustavo Lemos (29-1, 19 KOs) in the second round of a WBO lightweight title eliminator at the Scope Arena in Norfolk, Virginia.

Keyshawn knocked down Lemos, 28, three times in the second round. The referee, Raul Caiz Jr., stopped the match after the third knockdown and fell on top of Lemos while stopping the fight. The time was 1:08 of round two.

Davis drops Lemos three times

In the first knockdown, Keyshawn caught Lemos with a right counter while throwing a wild shot. Keyshawn’s shot hit Lemos’ chin and laid him out. Moments later, Keyshawn knocked Lemos down with another right hand.

He then finished him off with a left-right combination. This time, Lemos was badly injured and would not be able to get back up even if the referee had not stopped the fight.

It was hard to tell how good Keyshawn was coming out of this fight because Gustavo looked so poor. He was a miniature version of Rocky Balboa from the Sylvester Stallone movie,’Rocky,’ but he was worse than him because he had no inside game.

He let Keyshawn tie him up just as he closed the distance. Keyshawn jabbed to the body and moved away from Lemos’ clumsy attacks with ease, looking like a matador at times.

After the fight, Keyshawn called out lightweight champions Gervonta Davis and Denys Berinchyk. He said he thinks he will challenge the next WBO champion Berinchyk, which means he will surpass No. 1 William Zepeda and No. 2 Raymond Muratalla.

“A world title will definitely be next,” Keyshawn said. “Hey, Gervonta. Knock-knock. Ever since I signed with Top Rank, we’ve been planning a night like this. Shout out to Top Rank, Bob Arum. “We’re going to do it bigger than this. We did 10,000 with an opponent who is not that well known. I didn’t feel any strength in him. Maybe he didn’t get the chance to hit me. I can’t say much about a two-round fight.”

Abdullah Mason destroys Yohan Vasquez

In the fight of the night, lightweight Abdullah Mason (16-0, 14 KOs) was dropped twice in the first round by Yohan Vasquez (26-5, 21 KOs), but came back to stop him in the second round of an exciting action-packed battle. fight.

Unlike the main event, Mason did not move around the ring, clinging and using illegal stiff arms to neutralize Vasquez’s offense. Mason stepped into the trenches and went to war with Vasquez, dropping him in the first round with a thunderous left uppercut.

Early in the second round, Mason stunned Vasquez with his left hand. The shot caused Vasquez’s right knee to buckle. From then on he walked with a noticeable limp. Seconds later, Mason Vasquez folded with a left to the midsection. Vasquez got down on one knee, looked at his corner, shook his hand and was counted out. The official time was 1:59.