WBC light-weight champ Shakur Stevenson has made it clear: though he nearly actually placed on his most fun ring efficiency in handing Mexican strain fighter William Zepeda his first professional loss, this by way of huge choice, he doesn’t plan on preventing the best way he did sooner or later. By no means count on Stevenson to develop into a slugger, a person who appears to take the motion into the trenches.
Stevenson, 24-0(11) did make an actual effort at silencing the critics who’ve stated quite a few occasions that he’s “safety-first” and that he doesn’t take probabilities in fights, and the southpaw was tagged with some photographs because of his willingness to combat in shut and combat off the ropes. Stevenson says it is going to be again to the boxing subsequent trip.
Is This the Final Time We See Shakur Stand and Commerce?
“I ain’t gonna lie – I wanna placed on performances, however I additionally kinda took extra punishment than normal,” Stevenson stated, as quoted by The Ring. “So, I wanna get again on my boxing, ensure that I don’t take a lotta punishment in there. So, nah, I don’t plan on getting hit no extra. what’s loopy? All people in my nook, Andre Ward, Bud [Crawford], all them instructed me, ‘keep off the ropes.’ However I don’t know, I been kinda like feeling snug on the ropes generally. I really feel like fighters open up on the ropes.”
Stevenson did present some very good counterpunching abilities in preventing together with his again to the ropes in opposition to the ever-advancing Zepeda, and it made the combat extra enjoyable to look at. However was this a one-off so far as Shakur is worried? Possibly. Stevenson confirmed that whereas he can stand and, if not all-out commerce, then on the very least maintain his personal in an up shut and private combat, it is a model he won’t undertake full-time.
Simply who Stevenson fights subsequent will after all show attention-grabbing, and perhaps if it does change into one other strain fighter in Conor Benn, Stevenson will once more discover himself standing his floor and liking it. Benn, if he does get this combat, will as we all know do his utmost to make it HIS form of combat.
