In the break between the first two rounds of Saturday’s main event at Scope Arena in Norfolk, Virginia, Nahir Albright was interviewed by ESPN’s Mark Kriegel after the fighter’s upset majority decision win over Kelvin Davis in the co-main event.
It might otherwise have been a jubilant moment for Albright, but instead he claimed he was confronted by his defeated opponent’s brothers – one of whom appeared in his own fight earlier on the undercard and the other who was bumped as the event headliner after egregiously missing weight Friday.
“Keyshawn and his little brother [Keon] jumped me,” Albright said, describing the moments in the locker room after his own fight. “They start walking up to me, all tough, putting his head against mine, and then grabbed me. I was about to swing, but my team and everybody grabbed Keyshawn. It was crazy.”
Visible during the interview, Albright sported an angry red bump above his right eye that he said was not there for his fight with Kelvin Davis – though he did not explicitly say that it came as a result of the incident with the Davis brothers.
Albright had been idle since November 2023, when he lost a 10-round decision to Keyshawn Davis that was ultimately changed to a no-contest (Davis was found to have tested positive for marijuana).
“It’s definitely unfortunate, but it added fuel to the flame,” Albright told Kriegel. “Keyshawn, you gotta run it back with me – in the ring, not outside of the ring.”
Kriegel added that someone from Team Davis said they would have no comment on Saturday’s locker-room incident.
“That’s ridiculous,” said Timothy Bradley Jnr, Kreigel’s ESPN commentary teammate. “I’m no longer a fan.”
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