The boxing world was up in arms after the racist incident involving Keyshawn Davis unfolded a few days ago. Now, ‘The Businessman’ has revealed a personal text message he received from NBA legend Shaquille O’Neal, supporting him after the ordeal. But the question is, what exactly happened?

Before the fight on Friday night, Davis received a package in his hotel room, containing bananas and watermelon. It was a clear dig at Davis’ culture with a severe racist undertone. Davis shared the incident on social media, suspecting Denys Berinchyk and his team had a hand behind the package.

The pair even got into a heated exchange because of it during the final face-off of the fight. However, later Teofimo Lopez shared a short clip reacting to the entire ordeal while eating a banana and laughing at Davis’ misfortune. This led many to believe that Lopez, with whom Davis has had a long-standing beef, was the real culprit.

Regardless, appearing in a self-made video, the 25-year-old revealed that O’Neal came to his support via text message following the incident. “Shaquille O’Neal even dm’ed me no s**t,” Davis said in the video. “Y’all think I’m playing. I gotta show y’all. He said… break his motherf***ing jaw homie.”

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“Don’t even worry about it. I [will] break his jaw… I don’t even want to knock him out in the first round [anymore]. I want to beat on him… Just keep beating on him each round. He won’t want to come back out the corner,” Davis added. While Davis might not have been able to break Berinchyk’s jaw, he won the fight via a dominant 4th round knockout.

Regardless, now Davis wants the smoke with all the champions in his division. 

Keyshawn Davis demands fight contracts

Keyshawn Davis wasted no time calling out his rivals after his dominant fourth-round stoppage of Denys Berinchyk to claim the WBO lightweight title. The 25-year-old, now an unbeaten world champion, has set his sights on WBA champion Gervonta Davis and IBF titleholder Vasyl Lomachenko.

“Man, it was an amazing feeling [to win],” Davis said after the fight. “I’ll fight anybody that has the balls to step in the ring with me.” Davis made it clear he is ready to face the best in the division. “There are two 135-pound champions that I would love to fight. If they have the guts to step in the ring, tell them to send me a contract, or I’ll send them one.”

It appears that even though the culprit behind the racist package hasn’t been caught as of yet, Keyshawn Davis has earned support from Shaquille O’Neal. Who do you think was behind the incident?