Bruce Carrington doesn’t suggest Gervonta ‘Tank’ Davis combating Shakur Stevenson subsequent in a light-weight unification conflict because of the low curiosity the combat would have.
Featherweight contender Carrington states that boxing followers wouldn’t be excited at seeing Tank-Stevenson subsequent resulting from Shakur’s final efficiency in opposition to Artem Harutyunyan on July sixth on ESPN. The combat was uninteresting, much like Shakur’s earlier one in opposition to Edwin De Los Santos final November.
One other downside is Stevenson isn’t well-known to informal boxing followers but. Whereas hardcore followers know who Shakur is, many intensely dislike his combating type, viewing him as ‘boring’ and never well worth the time taken out of a Saturday evening to look at him carry out.
Carrington feels that for a combat between Gervonta and WBC light-weight champion Stevenson (22-0, 10 KOs) to be massive, Shakur wants two spectacular wins coming “back-to-back” earlier than a combat between him and Tank would promote.
“Proper now, no. I really feel as a result of these guys are younger. They’ve time to construct it up, and due to how the viewers has been taking Shakur’s final efficiency, the curiosity in it’s low,” mentioned Bruce Carrington to MillCity Boxing about whether or not Gervonta Davis ought to combat Shakur Stevenson subsequent.
“For it to be massive once more, Shakur has to have thrilling performances at the very least back-to-back performances.”
The draw back of Tank Davis not combating Stevenson subsequent is that he might proceed to carry out poorly, which is able to lower the low curiosity followers have already got in that matchup.
It will make sense for the Baltimore native Tank and his administration at PBC to delay the combat with Shakur in the event that they believed him able to turning issues round and looking out spectacular in a few his fights. Nevertheless, Shakur gained’t have the ability to look good and can proceed to bore followers for the rest of his profession. He’s not constructed to be an thrilling fighter.
Ideally, what Shakur ought to do is combat these contenders and be extra aggressive, standing within the pocket:
- Edwin De Los Santos
- Raymond Muratalla
Shakur wants to indicate the general public that he can beat De Los Santos with out shifting across the ring, making an attempt to evade his aggression like he confirmed final November. Stevenson blamed his poor efficiency in opposition to De Los Santos on accidents. Nevertheless, when Shakur selected to not pursue a rematch with him to show that he may combat higher when wholesome, followers noticed it as a case of him by no means being harm.
Shakur doesn’t have the center to combat aggressors fighters like De Los Santos and Jeremiah Nakathilia and by no means will.
‘Tank’ Davis, the WBA light-weight champion, wants a great opponent that can promote on PPV now that Vasily Lomachenko has chosen to sit down for the rest of 2024. That was a combat that Davis (30-0, 28 KOs) and his administration needed in November in a cross-platform PPV occasion.
A greater possibility for Tank Davis to decide on for his subsequent combat in November could be an all-action sort of fighter that may make it attention-grabbing for the followers. That might be certainly one of these two:
– William Zepeda
– Isaac ‘Pitbull
