Floyd Schofield Sr. mentioned in an interview tonight that the combat between his son, Child Austin, and WBC light-weight champion Shakur Stevenson will likely be introduced on Monday, December 2nd, in Saudi Arabia for the February twenty second card in Riyadh.
Official On Monday
Schofield Sr. states that the Shakur-Child Austin combat will likely be introduced by the point the U.S. followers get up on Monday morning tomorrow. He says it’s a “completed deal,” and Golden Boy and the community have agreed on it.
Social media followers are nonetheless in disbelief that the combat will occur, however we’ll see tomorrow if Floyd Sr. is critical about it being a completed deal.
Oscar De La Hoya mentioned that he felt Schofield wanted extra expertise earlier than taking over the three-division world champion Shakur, who’s older and has been preventing within the professional ranks longer. He’s fought higher opposition, and he’s an Olympic silver medalist.
Schofield Sr. is in a rush to combat with Shakur, and he’ll discover out the exhausting manner that he might not be proud of the end result of this match. He didn’t say the purse for Child Austin, but it surely’s probably a few million. For Schofield Sr. to be this keen, it’s received to be by far the largest payday of Floyd Jr’s profession.
Searching for The Knockout
“They’re making an announcement of their nation [Saudi Arabia], it needs to be broadcast. It’s a completed deal. All the pieces is sweet,” mentioned Floyd Schofield Sr. to Punsh Drunk Boxing about his combat with Shakur Stevenson official for February twenty second in Riyadh.
“I commend him for retaining his phrase. It’s going to be an awesome combat,” mentioned Floyd Sr. about Shakur retaining his phrase to combat Child Austin. “De Los Santos was flat-footed. ‘Child’ shouldn’t be flat-footed. Our purpose is to knock him out.
“I don’t assume they’ll give it to us on the playing cards. So, our purpose is to strategically knock him out. We’re excited as a result of it doesn’t matter what folks say, ‘Child’s not prepared.’ Child has received a puncher’s probability, and everyone is aware of Child can crack.”
For Schofield Sr. to be in an enormous rush to make the combat with Shakur (22-0, 10 KOs), it’s a powerful sign that that is nearly cash as a result of he’s not fought any contenders throughout his four-year professional profession.
He ought to have had Child Austin preventing high 15 contenders to assist put together him to combat for a world title, however they’ve reduce corners. Schofield will nonetheless have the ability, youth, and velocity benefit over Shakur. If he can stroll via Stevenson’s pinpoint photographs to land one thing large, he’s received an opportunity. It is going to be exhausting to catch as much as Shakur with out getting caught.
“That’s all he wants. Shakur has received to pitch a flawless efficiency for 12 rounds. All we have to do is join one or two occasions to that chin, and it’s a completed deal. So, we’re glad about this,” mentioned Schofield Sr.
Child Austin doesn’t possess one-punch energy. He hits exhausting, however he youngsters most of his knockouts from touchdown an accumulation of blows throughout fights that stretch into the second half. The factor is, Schofield hasn’t fought any top-tier opposition, and but he’s been unable to attain fast knockouts.
“We seen his [Shakur] final combat. How a lot development did we see? His hand received damage. I don’t see him getting extra knockouts. So, his knockout share didn’t develop. Did he grow to be extra skillful?” mentioned Schofield Sr. about Shakur.
Stevenson clearly isn’t designed to combat at light-weight. He hit his ceiling when he fought at featherweight [126], and he doesn’t possess the sort of energy to harm fighters at 135. However that gained’t matter as a result of Child Austin isn’t an enormous knockout puncher, and the one manner he can win is by resolution. He’s not going to have the ability to land typically sufficient to KO Shakur.
