Jaron ‘Boots’ Ennis says he needs to see light-weight champions Gervonta Davis and Shakur Stevenson meet in a unification conflict if Tank chooses to not rematch Lamont Roach. IBF welterweight champion Ennis states that he views the Tank-Shakur battle as a “50-50” one.
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Worthiness Questioned
Followers need to see Shakur take a look at himself towards among the gifted fighters first at 135 to indicate that he deserves a battle towards Tank Davis. The one respectable man that Stevenson has fought since shifting as much as the light-weight division is Edwin De Los Santos, and he nearly misplaced to towards him of their conflict in November 2023.
Shakur was operating across the ring all evening, being booed loudly by followers on the T-Cell Enviornment in Las Vegas. Since that battle, Stevenson’s promoters have matched him solely towards weak punchers to make sure that he appeared fairly good. He’s appeared poor, however not fairly as dangerous as he did towards De Los Santos.
Stevenson’s #1 challenger is 2020 Olympic gold medalist Andy Cruz, who can do every little thing he can however with extra energy. Nonetheless, Cruz shares the identical promoter, Eddie Hearn, at Matchroom, and he’s clearly reluctant to place them in towards one another. He is aware of clearly that if he lets Cruz battle Shakur, he’ll wreck his imaginative and prescient of creating a mega-fight towards Tank Davis.
The Cuban Andy Cruz doesn’t communicate English, and he’s not a Twitter hound like Shakur. The social media posts Shakur and his fixed bragging about himself make him one of many fighters that followers need to see.
The 50-50 Battle
“I feel that’s a fantastic battle and one that ought to occur. Hopefully, that occurs after Tank handles enterprise in a rematch with Lamont Roach. In the event that they don’t rematch, I feel him and Shakur ought to battle subsequent,” stated Jaron ‘Boots’ Ennis to Fighthype about eager to see a unification conflict between WBA light-weight champion Gervonta Davis and WBC champ Shakur Stevenson.
“That’s a fantastic battle. I actually can’t say as a result of they’re two nice fighters with a excessive IQ, they’re each sharp. That’s a 50-50 for me,” stated Ennis when requested how he sees a battle between Shakur and Tank Davis taking part in out. “Might the very best man win. I feel all people needs to see that battle.”
Hand Troubles
Boots didn’t point out the repeated hand points Shakur (23-0, 11 KOs) has had since shifting as much as the 135-lb division in 2023. Stevenson, 27, already missed out on a battle towards Joe Cordina final October. He wanted surgical procedure to repair that downside. It’s not only one hand that has been inflicting Shakur issues.
Each of them have been fragile and glass-like, which has brought about him to give attention to hitting with weak, single photographs after which retreating. In opposition to a giant puncher like Tank Davis (30-0-1, 28 KOs), Shakur’s probabilities of successful a call can be slim and could possibly be down as to if the judges assigned to the battle can be scoring it below newbie guidelines fairly than skilled. Within the amateurs, it’s about fighters fencing to land photographs to attain factors.
