William Zepeda’s coach, Jay Najar, was stunned that WBC light-weight champion Shakur Stevenson selected to battle #13 Joe Cordina on October twelfth quite than face them in November.
Najar says they have been unaware that Shakur (22-0, 10 KOs) modified his thoughts about preventing the unbeaten #1-ranked 135-lb contender Zepeda (31-0, 27 KO), preferring as an alternative to face the 32-year-old former IBF tremendous featherweight champion Cordina on the undercard of Artur Beterbiev vs. Dmitry Bivol on the Kingdom Enviornment in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.
Zepeda: The Harmful Third Rail
What Najar doesn’t say is whether or not he suspects Shakur will keep away from Zepeda within the first half of 2025 as effectively. The Mexican star is all improper for the light-hitting defensive artist Shakur and will smash his new promoter Eddie Hearn’s plans to match him towards Gervonta Davis subsequent summer season.
If Shakur is being steered across the harmful William Zepeda proper now, it’s solely apparent that he shall be prevented just like the plague within the first quarter of 2025.
Zepeda is the equal of the electrified third rail of a prepare system and extremely harmful for Shakur along with his ambitions of a mega-fight towards Tank Davis. The Mexican star, Zepeda, would chase Shakur down and reap havoc on him and his promoter Hearn’s desires of a large cash battle towards Tank Davis.
Shakur is reportedly being paid $5 million to headline the undercard portion of the Beterbiev-Bivol card stay on DAZN PPV in his first battle for promoter Eddie Hearn’s Matchroom Boxing firm. Hearn selected certainly one of his personal Matchroom fighters, Cordina, who’s down in his luck after being destroyed in eight rounds by Anthony Cacace on Could 18th and badly wants a pick-me-up proper now.
Shakur’s Calculated Transfer
Some consider that Hearn’s selection of Cordina as Shakur’s opponent is a intelligent transfer to rebuild Stevenson and additional his purpose of creating him a “international celebrity,” even when he’s not for actual. In different phrases, Hearn makes Shakur look higher than he’s by constructing a faux “international celebrity” to assist make a battle between him and Gervonta ‘Tank’ Davis right into a monster on PPV in 2025.
“William simply had his child yesterday; we knew that was coming, so we requested for November [to challenge WBC lightweight champion Shakur]. We didn’t know why [Shakur chose to fight Joe Cordina]. Unexpectedly, he was preventing a unique fighter. We have been keen to battle in November.,” stated Nakar to Thaboxingvoice.
