Shakur Stevenson and his new promoter, Eddie Hearn, want to take the backdoor path to a battle in opposition to the Face of Boxing Gervonta ‘Tank’ Davis, with a match in opposition to the down-and-out Joe Cordina and doubtlessly William Zepeda.
The Lingering Stain of the De Los Santos Battle
A darkish cloud nonetheless follows Shakur from his questionable win over Edwin De Los Santos final November. That was a battle by which the judges gave Shakur a 12-round unanimous resolution win regardless of him not touchdown something.
There must be an asterisk subsequent to Shakur’s win within the report 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 have been 115-113, 116-112 and 116-112. I watched the battle and had De Los Santos successful 8-4. It was not possible to present Shakur greater than 4 rounds as a result of he wasn’t partaking and retreating throughout the ring your complete night time.
The group at ringside on the T-Cell Area in Las Vegas was loudly booing the battle from the third spherical, and so they acquired louder because the battle wore into the later rounds.
Hearn’s Calculated Manipulation
Hearn is attempting to craftily maneuver Shakur right into a battle with Tank Davis in 2025 by feeding him the not too long ago knocked-out Cordina (17-1, 9 KOs). He even put the match on PPV on October twelfth in Riyadh.
It’s a sneaky option to maneuver Shakur into an enormous battle in opposition to Tank that he hasn’t earned and has no probability of successful.
It’s a cash-out for Shakur, similar to Hearn arrange his Matchroom fighter Edgar Berlanga for the same cash battle he can’t win in opposition to Canelo Alvarez.
The Matchroom promoter Hearn is attempting to set the desk for the Tank-Shakur battle 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 transferring on to the subsequent stage of incomes a battle in opposition to Tank Davis, the #1 fighter within the light-weight division.
The boxing group believes De Los Santos was robbed in his battle in opposition to Shakur final November sixteenth, as they noticed no actual punches landed apart from keep-away photographs that had no energy.
De Los Santos landed the extra vital blows in all 12 rounds of the battle, and he regarded like he’d executed greater than sufficient to earn the victory.
To earn a battle in opposition to 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 conversant in Shakur as a result of his fights create no buzz, and hardcore followers dislike him tremendously. They abhor Shakur and look at him as an affordable knockoff of an previous Mayweather in his later years.
The Value of a Battle Towards Tank Davis
- Edwin De Los Santos
- William Zepeda
- Vasily Lomachenko
- Abdullah Mason
