‘I’m here to put myself to the test’

EYSHAWN DAVIS had already turned professional before the Olympic Games. He left the US amateur programme and boxed three times in the paid ranks in 2021. But, once the pandemic saw the Americas qualifier cancelled, the qualification system changed. Due to his stellar amateur career over the previous years he had enough ranking points to qualify for the Tokyo Games. USA Boxing changed their rules to bring Davis and two other professionals back to their team.

“I believe it could only be awkward if you make things awkward. I was coming in to handle business so I wasn’t going to let all the extra stuff that already. “I just put all that aside, just moved forward and they were thinking the same thing. We were of one accord and that’s how we went about it.