Roadblock to Riches: Shakur Stevenson’s concerns about Gerrvonta Davis’s upcoming match with Lamont Roach

Shakur Stevenson has “Concerns” On whether Gevonta Davis will win with Lamont Roach on August 16. Stevenson (23-0, 11 COs) has a self-serving concern: He wants his mega-money fight against Tank Davis, which can’t happen if he loses the Rematch with Roach. This will leave Shakur with limited options.

Impact of tank upset

Shakur said that a fight is between him and Gervonta ‘The biggest battle in box. “If Davis loses against Roach, Shakur will have to go in a different direction, because the tank fight will no longer have the interest it once did.

“I know that Tank and I are the big fight, so it worries me that I don’t have my opportunity to fight him as an unbeaten fighter with Lamont Roach in front of him,” Shakur Stevenson said Ring magazine About his nervousness about Gervonta Davis who may have lost in their re -broadcast against Lamont Roach and then never have the chance to fight against him. “But we’ll see. Maybe he goes in there and makes it an easy battle. “

Well, if Tank Davis loses against Roach on August 16, it’s not the end of the world. That would just mean that Shakur may have to wait until they fight against a trilogy. A third Davis-Roach battle can be staged in November or December. Meanwhile, Stevenson was able to fight one of the leading contenders, such as Andy Cruz, Jadier Herrera, Abdullah Mason or Tevin Farmer. These are all difficult fights, but if Shakur ‘is the best fighter in box’ as he always says, he has to beat all the guys.

“It’s a wonderful struggle. I think Oscar (de la hoya) knows (William) Zepeda is really to stand against it Here, but of course the numbers make sense for them to roll the dice, ”said the promoter Eddie Hearn Fight Hub TV About Golden Boy promotions, it feels that it was worth financially worth allowing unbeaten William Zepeda to fight Shakur Stevenson on July 12, July 12.

On paper, it is an easier battle for Zepeda than his last two competitions against Tevin Farmer. Shakur does not have the size, power or robustness of the farmer. The only thing he does better than farmer is to move, and he has moved quite a bit. If Tevin moved more than in the two fights, he would have been thrown by the fans.

He did enough to stop the fans from letting him know about it. Farmer is very brave a fighter than Shakur, and always has it. Zepeda was less concerned about Shakur than in his fighting against the hard farmer.

Zepeda is different

“I think without the Ring Magazine or the Riyadh season, I don’t think this battle (Shakur against Zepeda) would have happened, if I’m honest. But Zepeda is a wonderful fighter. I think stylish, it’s a wonderful game, especially for Shakur Stevenson. He is a man who is a tremendous counter-puncher. amount of bumps.

Shakur and Hearn could live to regret this battle with William Zepeda, because he is a very different animal than the best guys he fought during his eight -year career. The best guys who fought Stevenson are these fighters:

– Edwin de Los Santos
– Arthur Harutyunyan
– Jamel herring
– Joet Gonzalez
– Oscar Valdez
– Robson Conceicao

It’s a pretty soft bunch when you compare it to the young volume puncher zepeda. He is stronger than those fighters and throws a lot more push. Unless Shakur plans to run from him all night, he has a nightmare battle in front of him.

“This is the last struggle of our existing agreement,” says Hearn about the duel contract between Matchroom and Stevenson ending with his fight against Zepeda. “So we work from now to the fight and beyond to try to keep him in the match room. It is clear that we have a good relationship,” Hearn said.

Turki Alalshikh will have to help with the fight against Gervonta Davis, because Hearn probably won’t invest the money to meet Tank and Shakur’s expectations for this battle. If the battle is not waged, it will be interesting to see who Shakur is fighting for the rest of his career at 135. He is not a big enough puncher to climb the weight classes to 140 and 147.

Stevenson’s hand injury impact

His brittle hands are also a problem. For Shakur to fight against the top-level fighters, he must be able to throw hard enough to make them careful to aggressively attack him. He cannot do this if he protects his glass hands and cannot throw with any power.

“If you told Shakur,” Who do you think is the best promoter in the world and who do you want to be with? “He would say,” Eddie and Matchroom. ” But if we do not come up with an agreement, that will change very quickly.

Whether Shakur stays with the match may amount to whether they can deliver the tank Davis fight. Tank and Conor Benn clashes are the ones he is most interested in.

Stevenson has not yet talked about the will of the other top lightweight, Keyshawn Davis, Raymond Muratalla, Andy Cruz and Abdullah Mason. He has been very calculated since moving up to 135 in 2023, and he just pushed to Tank Davis and Vasily Lomachenko. He rejected dangerous battles against Jadier Herrera and Ernesto Mercado to fight against Josh Padley. It shows you that Shakur does not want to be beaten until he gets the tank Davis fight.