Kyrone Davis Can’t Wait to Shut Down Another Prized PBC Prospect
- Matthew Brown
- May 29
- 3 min read
05/29/2025
Kyrone “Shut It Down” Davis isn’t interested in being anyone’s stepping stone—not anymore. On Saturday night, as part of the action-packed PBC on Prime doubleheader headlined by Caleb Plant vs. Jermall Charlo in Las Vegas, Davis returns to the ring with one goal: to derail yet another highly touted prospect. His target this time is Cuba’s undefeated knockout artist Yoenli Hernandez.
“I’m ready to go. This is what I’ve been working for,” Davis said with conviction in the lead-up to fight night. “This is my time, because we train for these moments.”
The 30-year-old veteran from Wilmington, Delaware enters the bout with a record of (19-3-1, 6 KOs). The raw record doesn’t stand out as anything special, but the BoxRec never tells the whole story. Davis’s résumé and story is defined by persistence, reinvention, and recent redemption.
Once seen as a litmus test for rising prospects, Davis has flipped the script on that narrative. His signature win came in 2024 when he stunned then-unbeaten middleweight Elijah García in a massive upset. García had been hyped as PBC’s next breakout star at 160 pounds, but Davis silenced the buzz with a disciplined, aggressive performance that established HIM as a legitimate contender.
Now, Davis sees Saturday night as another chance to climb closer to a world title opportunity.
“We’re ready to have some fun in the ring in Las Vegas,” he said. “I can’t wait for it to be fight night.”
According to his longtime trainer Stephen “Breadman” Edwards, the difference in Davis’s resurgence is simple: he’s finally fighting in the right weight class. After years of bouncing between super middleweight and junior middleweight in search of opportunities, Davis has settled into the middleweight division, and it shows. He’s rattled off three consecutive wins since his 2021 loss to David Benavidez—a brutal fight he took on short notice at 168 pounds, where he still gave the division’s boogeyman a tough night.
That experience, rather than deterring Davis, refined him.
“People forget what I’ve been through just to stay in the game,” Davis said. “Now, I’m smarter, stronger, and I know exactly who I am in that ring.”
But Yoenli Hernandez isn’t coming to Vegas to be humbled. At 7-0 with 7 knockouts, the Cuban power-puncher has bulldozed every opponent so far and looks every bit the part of a future world champion. PBC has clearly seen something in him, fast-tracking the 27-year-old into this prime-time slot.
Davis, though, isn’t phased. In fact, he sees this fight as another opportunity to crash a party he wasn’t invited to.
“If you get in the ring with me, you have to know that I’m coming to win,” Davis declared. “I’m going in there to take his ‘0.’”
Davis doesn’t view himself as a gatekeeper. He’s a contender on a mission—a man with too much experience and too much to prove to be anyone’s placeholder. Hernandez may be the flashy new name on the PBC roster, but Davis has been here before. And he’s more than ready to shut it down.
Come Saturday night, don’t expect Kyrone Davis to play his part quietly. He’s coming to spoil the party—and start a new chapter of his own.
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