Shakur Stevenson and his new promoter, Eddie Hearn, wish to take the backdoor path to a struggle towards the Face of Boxing Gervonta ‘Tank’ Davis, with a match towards the down-and-out Joe Cordina and probably William Zepeda.
The Lingering Stain of the De Los Santos Combat
A darkish cloud nonetheless follows Shakur from his questionable win over Edwin De Los Santos final November. That was a struggle by which the judges gave Shakur a 12-round unanimous resolution win regardless of him not touchdown something.
There needs to be an asterisk subsequent to Shakur’s win within the document books from the De Los Santos as a result of he didn’t win it within the eyes of the followers and never with me.
The Nevada judges’ scores had been 115-113, 116-112 and 116-112. I watched the struggle and had De Los Santos profitable 8-4. It was inconceivable to present Shakur greater than 4 rounds as a result of he wasn’t participating and retreating throughout the ring your entire evening.
The gang at ringside on the T-Cell Area in Las Vegas was loudly booing the struggle from the third spherical, and so they received louder because the struggle wore into the later rounds.
Hearn’s Calculated Manipulation
Hearn is making an attempt to craftily maneuver Shakur right into a struggle with Tank Davis in 2025 by feeding him the just lately knocked-out Cordina (17-1, 9 KOs). He even put the match on PPV on October twelfth in Riyadh.
It’s a sneaky approach to maneuver Shakur into a large struggle towards Tank that he hasn’t earned and has no likelihood of profitable.
It’s a cash-out for Shakur, similar to Hearn arrange his Matchroom fighter Edgar Berlanga for the same cash struggle he can’t win towards Canelo Alvarez.
The Matchroom promoter Hearn is making an attempt to set the desk for the Tank-Shakur struggle by making Shakur look golden by beating Cordina. 4 months in the past, Cordina resembled a punching bag in his eighth-round knockout loss to Anthony Cacace on Could 18th.
Sadly, Stevenson (22-0, 10 KOs) nonetheless has unfinished enterprise with Edwin De Los Santos, which he ought to handle first earlier than shifting on to the subsequent stage of incomes a struggle towards Tank Davis, the #1 fighter within the light-weight division.
The boxing group believes De Los Santos was robbed in his struggle towards Shakur final November sixteenth, as they noticed no actual punches landed aside from keep-away photographs that had no energy.
De Los Santos landed the extra vital blows in all 12 rounds of the struggle, and he regarded like he’d achieved greater than sufficient to earn the victory.
To earn a struggle towards Tank Davis within the correct sense, Shakur wants to boost his inventory, which is decrease than low proper now after three lackluster performances in his final 4 fights.
Informal boxing followers aren’t accustomed to Shakur as a result of his fights create no buzz, and hardcore followers dislike him drastically. They abhor Shakur and think about him as an inexpensive knockoff of an outdated Mayweather in his later years.
The Worth of a Combat In opposition to Tank Davis
- Edwin De Los Santos
- William Zepeda
- Vasily Lomachenko
- Abdullah Mason
