Shakur Stevenson blames “superiority” for fan’s dislike
Shakur Stevenson said people don’t like to watch him fight because he “supremacy” The opponents, and they don’t like to see those types of contests. WBC lightweight champion Stevenson (22-0, 10 KOs) feels that’s why fans hate to see him. It makes the war one-sided.
Building an international star
He signed with Eddie Hearn Macharum last summer and will make his debut with the company on February 22 at Riyadh Floyd Schofield. Hearn thinks he can turn Stevenson into a global star. However, this is how an English promoter signs anyone.
We saw the same from Hearn when Jaron Ennis, Richardson Hitchin, and Demetrius Andrade entered the paint. None of those fighters became stars, and Hearn seemed to quickly lose interest when they failed to become the superstars he hoped for.
We may see that soon as Shakur puts in a good performance against Schofield next month. Hearn stops mentioning Shakur’s name, and he becomes invisible.
Shakur, 27, is oblivious to why he doesn’t like it. He doesn’t engage, fails to stay in the pocket and fights with fear when facing opponents with power.
The only wrestlers that Stevenson dominates are slow, marginally talented and underpowered. He regularly gets booed in his fights and doesn’t have the popularity or wrestling style to get big names to fight him.
Fan insights
“They are not just watching the competition. If it comes, they take the ball. They love it, but they also love to see science, and I admire them for that.” Shakur Stevenson said. TalkSport boxing About British fans.
“I’m getting really comfortable (being called ‘boring’). You understand that it’s not going to be a war every night. Like me and someone like me, I’m very dominant. I just come in and dominate. People don’t like to see someone come in and take over.
“I was used to being the young hungry lion. Now I have another young hungry lion that is younger than me. I definitely don’t think he’s hungrier than me,” Shakur said of the 22-year-old Floyd Schofield he fought on Feb. 22.
Shakur, a native of Newark, New Jersey, is approaching 30 years old and will have to adjust to being the biggest fighter. He will soon be one of the elder statesmen in boxing and will have a target. The back. Fighters who rely on their moves and moves don’t last long in the sport.
career path
“I try to find big names. I will try to find William Zipedas. I will try to contact Vasily Lomachenkos. If I can’t get these guys, I’ll have to take the guys next. This is the person who calls my phone all the time,” Shakur said.
If Stevenson isn’t such a runner, he’ll have no trouble getting the big names he mentions when he’s afraid to get involved and shout from the stage. Fighters like Lomachenko, Zepeda and Gervonta Davis don’t want to chase down a runner in the ring while being booed by fans. They were not upset.
It is Shakur, and it will be a cup of poison to those who watch. You can’t blame the main fighters for not wanting anything to do with Stevenson because he didn’t come to fight.
They hesitate to move up.
“After we get past him (Schofield), I’d say Zepeda and Gervonta Davis,” Shakur said of who he’d like to fight the rest of the year after his 2025 defense against Kid Austin. “I’m very comfortable at 135 pounds. “We’ll see after I win the division,” Stevenson said when asked if he would step up in weight like Floyd Mayweather Jr. did.
Shakur isn’t going to move up to 147 to take on the killers in that division because he can’t hit 135 and he’s already shown that he’s deadly afraid of power.
Although there aren’t many top-ranked wrestlers in the welterweight division today, fighters like Jaron ‘Boots’ Ennis, Imantas Stanionis and Brian Norman Jr. prey on weak, timid and well-rounded fighters like Shakur. He couldn’t run to avoid it. They bring in Stevenson, hunt him down, and destroy him in sequence.
