Keyshawn Davis just recently took to Instagram Live to finally talk about what took place when he missed weight causing his fight to be canceled, to then only end up in a backstage confrontation with Nahir Albright after Albright had beaten his brother. Davis says he makes no excuses but he was in a bad place and wants to share some thoughts now that he’s had ample time to reflect on what transpired. Here’s some of what he had to say.
“The situation [with Albright] messed me up so much it damn near
took me two months to get back on live,” Davis said. “I felt some type of way when the people was like I don’t really care ‘cause like that’s not true. After that situation had happened, I was really never right ever since and I had to start like leaning on my family and leaning on God’s word and leaning on the people that really love me because I was like just not myself.
“Just reflecting on that night, man, was super wrong, it wasn’t right for what I did. It wasn’t right at all. Me [not] making weight wasn’t right, it was a lot of stuff that week that was off camera that wasn’t right. I was snapping in fighter meetings and that wasn’t right and I apologize to the person I did snap in the fighter meeting.
“I feel like I just let everybody down. Ever since that situation had happened I see and I just hear a lot of things that got setback because of me and that’s sh-t is just not an easy pill to swallow. It took me a long time to really confront this stuff and all that stuff that happened it take more than a week or two to just come back and apologize. I really wanted to like wait so ya’ll can like feel me.
“Missing weight, unprofessional. And I see why ya’ll was saying I didn’t care, ‘cause after I missed weight my facial expressions looked like I didn’t care, my body language looked like I didn’t care, everything about me just looked like I didn’t care. But what ya’ll don’t know about me is I come from a lot and when you come from a lot you learn to build a shield up so nobody can never even know that’s f-ckin’ with you.
“I knew I wasn’t going to make the weight before I stepped on the scale, I knew how much I weighed. I knew I wasn’t going to make the weight. Before I even went to weigh-ins I’m like f-cked up for real but I can’t show ya’ll that...But now I’m not doing that no more because I wasn’t doing nothing but hurting myself.
“I really want ya’ll to genuinely know that I was super wrong for everything that happened, and I ain’t feel like it was right for me to wait a week and come back with an apology...I’m on live right now saying I messed up, but like I’m back though. I’m back, I’m better, I’m healthy.
“...at the end of the day I shouldn’t have walked into his locker room but nobody got banged and nobody got touched. All that got blown out of proportion ‘cause that sh-t didn’t happen at all. Like, for real. So no love lost for the Philly boys.”
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