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Lightweight Edwin De Los Santos won’t have trained and made weight only to see his shot at the WBO title go by the wayside with nothing to show for it when Keyshawn Davis missed weight by a whopping 4.3 pounds and the fight was canceled on Friday.
De Los Santos promoter Sampson Lewkowicz told Fight Freaks Unite on Wednesday that he made a deal with Davis promoter Top Rank for De Los Santos to be paid $165,000 for his trouble even though the company was not obligated to do so. All along Top Rank said it would get with Lewkowicz to work something out so De Los Santos would receive at least a portion of the purse.
Lewkowicz said the figure represents half of the $330,000 purse De Los Santos’ would have received had the fight taken place (in addition to whatever financial penalty they could have negotiated as payment from Davis’ seven-figure purse had they agreed to go through with the bout).