By: Sean Crose
Light-weight king Shakur Stevenson has signed up with Matchroom Boxing. “I’m prepared to begin this subsequent chapter of my profession and it begins on October 12 with Joe Cordina on the stacked Riyadh Season card in Saudi Arabia,” Stevenson mentioned in a press launch. “I’ve made it clear that I need the most important names and the most important fights within the sport. Carry on William Zepeda on the high of 2025 and I’m prepared for anybody who’s courageous sufficient to step within the ring with me. There have been few keen to tackle that problem in recent times.”
The undefeated, 22-0 Stevenson has been searching for a significant contest for ages. Certainly, the person arguably has two issues working towards him. The very first thing is that he’s a VERY good fighter. Stevenson is commonly accused of being a boring fighter, nonetheless. The person merely isn’t an motion oriented athlete. Neither is he significantly dazzling to observe, a la defensive legends like Floyd Mayweather or Pernell Whitaker. Nonetheless, nobody in Stevenson’s common weight realm with be thought-about the very best with out squaring off towards the younger man from Newark. Therefore, Stevenson is effective to a promotional outlet equivalent to Matchroom.
“I’m delighted to welcome what I imagine is a pound-for-pound nice to the Matchroom workforce,” Matchroom honcho Eddie acknowledged. “Shakur Stevenson is 27 and already a three-division World champion and is likely to be unbeatable within the sport of boxing. This younger man must be a world celebrity, and I imagine with our machine behind him, he’ll land all the massive fights and obtain all of the credit score that he deserves. The journey begins on October 12 in Riyadh on an enormous card, and we can’t look forward to the longer term collectively.”
Stevenson’-Cordina t shall be on the undercard of the extremely anticipated Artur Beterbirev-Dmitry Bivol undisputed gentle heavyweight title combat. “With Matchroom and Riyadh Season, I’m teaming up with a promotional power that matches my world class expertise,” Stevenson mentioned. “We shall be unstoppable out and in of the ring, and I’ll proceed to indicate my dominance for a few years to return within the sport of boxing.” That’s one thing Matchroom clearly hopes is true.
“Stevenson boasts a flawless resume,” the promotional outlet claimed, “having defeated the likes of Oscar Valdez, Robson Conceicao and Jamel Herring – which has seen him gather the WBC and WBO Tremendous Featherweight straps, together with the WBO Featherweight title throughout an unbelievable profession to this point.”
