Keyshawn Davis announces one-year break from boxing after backstage brawl, weight miss controversy

Davis breaks his silence after his tumultuous summer

Keyshawn Davis is taking time to figure things out. Davis will take a one-year hiatus from boxing after being stripped of the WBO lightweight title.

Davis' name has been in headlines for all the wrong reasons: missing weight, being investigated for backstage altercations and having his title stripped from him. Davis, 26, said he needs time to get his head straight after focusing nonstop on boxing since 2021.

"I could've [said], 'I'm going through stuff and that's why I did [it].' Nah, I don't even want it to come off that way," Davis told "The Ariel Helwani Show" on Wednesday. "I was wrong. I'm grown enough to know that I need to be better for my son, for myself, and for God.