Golden Boy promoter Oscar De La Hoya took on a swipe at Shakur Stevenson on social media, telling him that William Zepeda, an all-action light-weight crowd-pleaser, will throw extra punches within the first spherical of his battle towards Giovanni Cabrera this Saturday than Shakur will his complete battle towards Artem Harutyunyan on the identical evening.
Shakur Stevenson’s Defensive Type Underneath Hearth
Many followers would agree with De La Hoya as a result of Shakur (21-0, 10 KOs), WBC light-weight champion, largely strikes across the ring, throwing an occasional single shot earlier than taking off once more. With that combating fashion, Stevenson hardly ever throws greater than a handful of punches until he’s going through a no-hoper.
“Hey Shakur, I assure William Zepeda throws extra punches in his first spherical on Saturday than you do your complete battle,” mentioned Oscar De La Hoya on X, taunting WBC light-weight champion Shakur Stevenson.
The unbeaten William Zepeda (30-0, 26 KOs) is rated #1 by the IBF, WBA, WBC, and WBO at light-weight, and he’s on the doorstep to get a title shot towards one of many 4 champions within the weight class. What’s unclear is whether or not De La Hoya will push Zepeda towards combating Shakur for his WBC belt.
Zepeda’s Excessive-Quantity Punching Energy
If Zepeda fights Shakur, he’ll want a superb set of wheels as a result of he might want to chase him across the ring all evening to land his punches. Shakur is not going to stand in entrance of Zepeda as a goal for his high-volume punching as a result of that’s not his fashion.
Stevenson’s fashion is extra like an previous model of Mayweather when he grew to become risk-averse, throwing single pictures after which jetting away to keep away from return fireplace. That’s one of many the reason why Shakur has didn’t turn out to be a PPV attraction. Followers don’t need to pay to see that fashion when there are such a lot of extra thrilling fighters to observe.
Zepeda faces Cabrera (22-1, 7 KOs) within the twelve-round principal occasion this Saturday, July seventh, stay on DAZN from the Toyota Enviornment in Ontario, California.
It’s a battle that enables Zepeda to indicate whether or not he can beat one other defensive fighter; Cabrera is tough to hit, and it’ll take a variety of work for Zepeda to chop off the ring to get to this man to get his punches off.
Stevenson’s Promotional Future and Upcoming Struggle
Shakur defends his WBC light-weight crown for the primary time this Saturday towards Artem Harutyunyan (13-1, 7 KOs) on the Prudential Heart in Newark, New Jersey. Stevenson should look good on this battle as a result of he’ll be a promotional-free agent afterward.
