Eddie Hearn advised promoter Leonard Ellerbe that he desires the Shakur Stevenson vs. Gervonta ‘Tank’ Davis combat to occur in 2025.
Matchroom boss Hearn desires the Tank-Shakur match to occur inside three fights, and he’s not thinking about ready to let it marinate to make it a much bigger money-maker.
Hearn signed the WBC light-weight champion Shakur (22-0, 10 KOs) to a two-fight take care of Matchroom, and he hopes he’ll lengthen subsequent yr for a mega-PPV unification in opposition to Tank Davis.
Sadly for Hearn, Ellerbe didn’t sound enthused together with his fast timeline for a Tank vs. Stevenson combat, and he says it’s going to occur finally.
Ellerbe didn’t come proper out and say what the actual downside is, however clearly, it’s the 2 back-to-back subpar performances from Shakur in opposition to Artem Harutyunyan final July and Edwin De Los Santos.
There was quite a lot of booing from the followers at these occasions, and it wasn’t due to De Los Santos and Harutyunyan. Shakur didn’t come to combat in the best way the followers had anticipated, in order that they let him learn about it.
To take advantage of amount of cash, Shakur must get 4 good wins underneath his belt, the place he fights within the pocket and reveals that he can win with out working. The combat in opposition to Cordina is a ineffective tune-up combat that does nothing to construct curiosity for a conflict in opposition to Tank
What Shakur wants are wins over these fighters:
- William Zepeda
- Denys Berinchyk
- Abdullah Mason
- Raymond Muratalla
- Vasily Lomachenko
“I really feel that we’ve obtained a two-fight plan with Shakur, hopefully extends. Joe Cordina, Zepeda in February. I believe Tank vs Shakur is without doubt one of the largest fights within the sport. I believe Tank is so distinctive it’s going to take somebody nearly as good as Shakur to present him an actual combat, and I like that combat,” mentioned Eddie Hearn to the media about his desirous to make a combat between Shakur Stevenson and Gervonta Davis subsequent yr.
“Tank loses rounds. I believe Shakur’s the person to beat him.”
It’s not a positive factor that Shakur will defeat William Zepeda (31-0, 27 KOs) in February. That’s a tricky combat for Shakur, and even when he wins, it’s going to probably be in the identical vogue as he did in his slim victory over De Los Santos on November sixteenth final yr in Las Vegas. Shakur was on the transfer the whole combat and seemed like he was working at instances.
Shakur doesn’t possess the offensive firepower to beat Zepeda with out utilizing motion as a result of he’s capable of stand and commerce with fighters with energy within the 135-lb division like he’d executed when he fought at 126 and 130.
Stevenson may take their energy higher, however since shifting as much as 135 in 2023, he’s appeared timid and unwilling to face and combat. That’s why it’s stunning that Hearn bothered to signal him as a free agent. However given the massive hurry that Hearn is in to arrange the Tank Davis combat, it seems that his principal curiosity is to get the profitable combat with the Baltimore native.
After that, Shakur could have lived out his usefulness as a result of there aren’t any different well-paying fights for him at 135, and he’ll probably be in want of a prolonged, costly rebuild if Tank knocks him out.
