Gervonta Davis’ assistant coach, Kenny Ellis, has expressed curiosity in WBC light-weight champion Shakur Stevenson being Tank’s subsequent opponent in November after the initially scheduled opponent, Vasily Lomachenko, opted to take the rest of the 12 months off.
A Race Towards Time for Shakur’s Recognition
The doubtless thought behind WBA light-weight champion Tank Davis (30-0, 28 KOs) preventing Shakur (22-0, 10 KOs) now could be to make the match earlier than the New Jersey native’s recognition drops any decrease than it at all times has. It’s a race towards time.
If Tank’s group is uncertain whether or not Shakur can flip issues round after consecutive poor performances towards Artem Harutyunyan and Edwin De Los Santos, it’s vital that they combat him now earlier than his worth plummets additional.
Shakur was booed out of the T-Cellular final November in his combat towards De Los Santos and in his hometown earlier this month in his match towards Harutyunhyan. That was purported to be a showcase combat for Shakur, but it surely was an actual battle, and he bored his hometown followers.
If Tank doesn’t combat Shakur now, he will likely be nugatory to him after one or two or three extra fights as a result of the boxing public will view him as unwatchable and never price spending their cash on for PPV.
Shakur will likely be ineffective to Tank in two or three extra fights as a result of he’ll have been booed out of each venue, and his new promoter will remorse his resolution to signal him and be caught with the albatross.
It’s fairly apparent from watching Shakur’s final six fights that he doesn’t possess the expertise to be a star, and he’ll come unglued if he faces one other puncher like De Los Santos.
Nonetheless salty about Lomachenko not agreeing to combat Tank, Ellis mentioned to MillCity Boxing, “He’s straight ducking. Hopefully, Shakur received’t duck. Folks say Tank’s ducking Shakur, let’s see.”
Even when Tank Davis does combat Shakur now, he’s not a sufficiently big identify with informal boxing followers for the combat to be on the extent of Ryan Garcia. Shakur doesn’t have the identical attain Ryan does together with his 12M Instagram followers.
In distinction, Shakur has solely 291K followers. There’s a large distinction in recognition between Shakur and Ryan Garcia. Shakur’s system concerned bragging about himself and being a villain sort. Followers tune in to see if Shakur will lose, but it surely doesn’t occur as a result of his opposition has been mediocre since transferring as much as light-weight.
Davis vs. Shakur will doubtless do barely extra PPV numbers than Tank’s final combat towards Frank Martin, however solely due to the hardcore boxing followers.
Casuals received’t be enthusiastic about this combat. His social media exercise is often based mostly on him complaining about being dismissed as boring by followers and fighters, and it’s not entertaining.
