Why Edwin de Los Santos thinks Shakur easily wins (and why he’s wrong)

Edwin de Los Santos is predicting an ‘easy’ victory for Shakur Stevenson in his defense of his WBC lightweight title against William Zepeda in Queens, New York tonight. De Los Santos says Shakur (23-0, 11 COs) is doing well against fighters who emerge and throw many blows.

De Los Santos needed the transplant

Edwin lost to Shakur against Shakur in 2023 in a fight that was a classic example of a Tom and Jerry-type competition. Stevenson ran all night, and the crowd in the T-Mobile arena blew from the third round until Shakur left the ring after winning an ugly decision.

Edwin fought a stupid battle and waited for openings rather than pushing the attack as Zepeda did in its fights. He seems to be afraid to be counteracted by Shakur and that he looks bad in front of the fans.

His attitude was all wrong. If he had Zepeda’s mind in his body, he would have ignored the shots that Stevenson beat him and buried him with volume. With De Los Santos’ power and hand speed, he would have knocked out Shakur. A mind transplant is what he needed. Switch Zepeda’s head On the body of Edwin that night, and he would have won.

Shakur’s “easy struggle” claims

‘This is going to be an easy battle For Shakur Stevenson. We are really going to see some quality box here tonight, ”said Edwin de Los Santos Fighting typePredict a win for Shakur over William Zepeda.

Tonight is going to be a very difficult battle for Shakur. It is understandable why De Los Santos would say it was going to be an ‘easy’ one, because he lost to Stevenson in 2023. It makes him look better when he says it will be a walk in the park for his former conqueror about Zepeda.

What he has to say is that there is a very good chance that Zepeda wins, because he is fighting the way you should be against a runner-up who uses the amateur point method to win fights.

Stevenson’s amateur point mark

Shakur still uses the same point method as he had in the amateurs. The reason he could get away with it is that he did not fight any pressure fighters at 135. When he fought at 126 and 130, he had the great advantage over his opposition. Stevenson was bigger than the only two good fighters he fought in those weight classes, Oscar Valdez and Jamel Herring.

At 135, Shakur did not fight any pressure fighters. Indeed, when he had the opportunity to fight his first, Jadier Herrera, he chose a fighter with a day job and no training camp, Josh Padley, as his opponent in his last fight.

“Against me he had to box and move because I was waiting For opportunities and openings, “De Los Santos said of his battle with Shakur in 2023.” A man like Zepeda, who emerges and throws a lot of blows, and that’s when Shakur Stevenson shows who he is. “

De Los Santos fed a stupid fight against Shakur, and waited forever to land an occasional shot, rather than using his excellent power and hand speed to push the attack on him. He lost to Shakur for his lack of aggression, rather chose to wait and not attack everything.

Ramirez -Blouprint for Shakur

If Edwin de Los saw the loss of Stevenson to Cubas Robeisy ramirez In the 2016 Olympics, he would have known that he had to attack him all. He did not learn to follow the blueprint. You can blame it at De Los Santos and his coach, because it would just have taken a second to look at Stevenson’s fight against Robeisy on YouTube to find out how to fight against him. It is laziness and poor planning.

“The key is for him (Stevenson) to box more in the area, and he is also a wonderful counter-puncher,” says De Los Santos, talking about the obvious Shakur should do tonight to defeat Zepeda.

Of course, Stevenson goes against Zepeda all night and moves. What does De Los Santos expect him to do? This is all that Shakur does-box and moves, using its amateur score style to win by decision. It is so boring and does not fit the pro game.