Shakur Stevenson says he injured each palms throughout his battle towards Artem Harutyunyan final Saturday evening in Newark, New Jersey.
Though Shakur (22-0, 10 KOs) acquired the one-sided twelve-round unanimous determination to retain his WBC light-weight title, his inventory continued to plummet along with his second consecutive unexciting efficiency.
Stevenson ought to have tipped followers off earlier than the battle that he was combating with two “fragile” palms as a result of it will have gone higher with them in the event that they felt he was combating with a handicap and wasn’t 100%. However for Shakur to disclose the issue instantly after paints the image of a fighter simply making excuses to deflect criticism.
“Yeah, each of them. They’re fragile. I’m going to get them stronger within the offseason,” mentioned Shakur Stevenson on social media, revealing that he injured each palms in his win over Artem Harutyunyan final Saturday evening.
Doubts about Future Success
If Shakur does have unhealthy palms, he wants to think about retirement as a result of it’s seemingly not going to get higher, and he isn’t going to beat one of many killers within the light-weight division like Gervonta Davis, William Zepeda or Vasily Lomachenko combating the way in which he’s executed in his final two fights towards Harutyunyan and Edwin De Los Santos.
“Pay attention, Shakur did what he usually does. He bins them, and he wins, however I talked to him final evening, and [he stated that] each of his palms had been harm. I talked to his cousin, and he mentioned he’s all the time hurting his palms when he’s punching,”‘ mentioned coach Derek ‘Bozy’ Ennis to YSM Sports activities Media about Shakur Stevenson saying he’s injured each palms throughout his battle towards Artem Harutyunyan.
Floyd Mayweather had unhealthy palms, however he fought at a better degree than Shakur all through his profession, even when he acquired outdated. Shakur’s palms should be in worse form than Mayweather’s had been.
“I instructed him to cease listening to the folks and cease listening to the gang speaking about you. You ain’t acquired to be cussing at them. Don’t allow them to take you off the sq.. You received the battle, and now you bought to return within the lab,” mentioned Bozy.
“You bought on the market and battle and do what it’s important to do,” mentioned Bozy when requested how Shakur can deal with his enterprise. I instructed Shakur final evening to let his palms go a bit of bit extra, and he would have stopped him. He was ready and throwing one or two pictures.
“It was a clumsy fighter. Generally if you get in with a clumsy fighter, generally it may be tough,” mentioned Bozy about Harutyunyan being a clumsy fighter for Shakur.
