Gervonta Davis’ assistant coach, Kenny Ellis, has expressed curiosity in WBC light-weight champion Shakur Stevenson being Tank’s subsequent opponent in November after the initially scheduled opponent, Vasily Lomachenko, opted to take the rest of the yr off.
A Race In opposition to Time for Shakur’s Recognition
The probably concept behind WBA light-weight champion Tank Davis (30-0, 28 KOs) combating Shakur (22-0, 10 KOs) now could be to make the match earlier than the New Jersey native’s reputation drops any decrease than it all the time has. It’s a race in opposition to time.
If Tank’s group is uncertain whether or not Shakur can flip issues round after consecutive poor performances in opposition to Artem Harutyunyan and Edwin De Los Santos, it’s vital that they struggle him now earlier than his worth plummets additional.
Shakur was booed out of the T-Cell final November in his struggle in opposition to De Los Santos and in his hometown earlier this month in his match in opposition to Harutyunhyan. That was speculated to be a showcase struggle for Shakur, however it was an actual wrestle, and he bored his hometown followers.
If Tank doesn’t struggle Shakur now, he will probably be nugatory to him after one or two or three extra fights as a result of the boxing public will view him as unwatchable and never price spending their cash on for PPV.
Shakur will probably be ineffective to Tank in two or three extra fights as a result of he’ll have been booed out of each venue, and his new promoter will remorse his resolution to signal him and be caught with the albatross.
It’s fairly apparent from watching Shakur’s final six fights that he doesn’t possess the expertise to be a star, and he’ll come unglued if he faces one other puncher like De Los Santos.
Nonetheless salty about Lomachenko not agreeing to struggle Tank, Ellis mentioned to MillCity Boxing, “He’s straight ducking. Hopefully, Shakur received’t duck. Folks say Tank’s ducking Shakur, let’s see.”
Even when Tank Davis does struggle Shakur now, he’s not a sufficiently big identify with informal boxing followers for the struggle to be on the extent of Ryan Garcia. Shakur doesn’t have the identical attain Ryan does along with his 12M Instagram followers.
In distinction, Shakur has solely 291K followers. There’s a large distinction in reputation between Shakur and Ryan Garcia. Shakur’s components concerned bragging about himself and being a villain sort. Followers tune in to see if Shakur will lose, however it doesn’t occur as a result of his opposition has been mediocre since shifting as much as light-weight.
Davis vs. Shakur will probably do barely extra PPV numbers than Tank’s final struggle in opposition to Frank Martin, however solely due to the hardcore boxing followers.
Casuals received’t be enthusiastic about this struggle. His social media exercise is normally based mostly on him complaining about being dismissed as boring by followers and fighters, and it’s not entertaining.
