NEW YORK – Keyshawn Davis weighed only five pounds above the junior welterweight limit about a month ago.

Such easy weight cuts have convinced Davis that he can continue to thrive in the 135-pound division, five pounds beneath junior welterweight, for the foreseeable future. The lightweight contender would, however, move up sometime this year for the right opportunity to oppose a 140-pound champion.

Challenging Teofimo Lopez for his Ring and WBO junior welterweight titles would make perfect sense, since Lopez and Davis are promoted by Bob Arum’s Top Rank Inc. Davis (12-0, 8 KOs, 1 NC), who will box WBO lightweight champion Denys Berinchyk (19-0, 9 KOs) on Friday night, wouldn’t expect Lopez to fight him even if Davis, a 2021 Olympic silver medalist, added one of the titles Lopez once owned to his resume by winning a main event ESPN+ will stream from Madison Square Garden’s Theater.

“I don’t see that as a fight for me, honestly,” Davis told The Ring, which ranks him fifth among its top 10 lightweight contenders. “I don’t see it as a fight for me because Teo don’t wanna fight. That’s just it – period. Everybody know like I’m willing to fight everybody, honestly. I’m the young gunner at the end of the day, right? And these guys, they already got they world titles.

“Some of ‘em, like Teo, they was undisputed and stuff like that. I’m the young gunner that’s gunning after everybody, so of course I’ll be willing to fight the top guys. And Teo is one them top guys I would be willing to fight, but he don’t wanna fight me. You know, he got other plans, so yeah, that’s what it is.”

Lopez (21-1, 13 KOs) is expected to fight either in June or July against an opponent to be determined. The next bout is part of a three fight collaboration with Top Rank, Lopez’s longtime promoter. The first contest of the deal would headline a Ring Magazine event, with the next two fights being part of Riyadh Season cards.

As far the location for Lopez's next fight - Turki Alalshikh, chairman of Saudi Arabia’s General Entertainment Authority and head of Riyadh Season, is exploring bringing Lopez’s next bout to Alcatraz Island, the long-closed site of an infamous American prison off the coast of San Francisco.

Brooklyn’s Richardson Hitchins (19-0, 7 KOs), the IBF junior welterweight champion, has been mentioned as a potential opponent for Lopez. That fight might not take place next, but Alalshikh intends to match Lopez against IBF welterweight champion Jaron Ennis (33-0, 29 KOs, 1 NC) in the fall if Ennis defeats Lithuania’s Eimantas Stanionis (15-0, 9 KOs, 1 NC), the WBA champ, in their 12-round, 147-pound title unification fight April 12 at Boardwalk Hall in Atlantic City, New Jersey. Ennis and Stanionis will also collide for the vacant Ring Magazine welterweight title.

As for the 25-year-old Davis, the WBO’s No. 1 contender for Berinchyk’s belt will headline a tripleheader on ESPN scheduled to start Friday night at 9 p.m. ET.

The Norfolk, Virginia native is listed by DraftKings as more than a 6-1 favorite over the unbeaten Berinchyk, The Ring’s sixth-ranked lightweight. Berinchyk, who won a silver medal at the 2012 Summer Olympics in London, upset Mexico’s Emanuel Navarrete (39-2-1, 32 KOs) by split decision to win his WBO belt May 18 at Pechanga Arena in San Diego.