Will Hearn Dump Shakur Stevenson After His First Loss?

Eddie Hearn’s long-term curiosity in selling Shakur Stevenson stays doubtful regardless of his glowing remarks about believing he’s a future “world celebrity” within the making.

The connection between the 2 will seemingly final so long as Shakur retains profitable. As soon as Stevenson suffers his first loss, he’ll be fish meals, seemingly thrown overboard by the British promoter.

No ‘Pink Carpet’ for Shakur

Some consider Hearn will abandon hopes of turning Shakur, 27, right into a “world” star after he suffers his first loss. Stevenson seemingly gained’t be given the crimson carpet remedy like Anthony Joshua with a four-fight faux rebuilding course of after he loses.

AJ brings in complete money for his UK fights, and British followers will seemingly preserve paying to look at him irrespective of what number of occasions he’s overwhelmed. Issues are completely different within the U.S., particularly when you have a boring, non-engaging preventing type like Shakur Stevenson. People don’t need to pay to look at fighters that run across the ring for 12 rounds like Shakur usually does.

AJ misplaced twice in a row, but Hearn caught by his facet, exhibiting loyalty and willingness to maintain his profession going by synthetic strategies by feeding him cans. Issues can be completely different for Shakur. One loss might sign the top of his alliance with Hearn.

We’ll seemingly see Shakur dumped overboard by Hearn and given up after he’s knocked out by William Zepeda or Gervonta ‘Tank’ Davis.

Rebuilding Shakur, as Hearn has finished with Joshua, would require funding in cash, time, and persistence. If Shakur had been a large PPV attraction like AJ within the UK, Hearn could be on board with refurbishing him after Zepeda or Tank Davis reworked him into mud. That’s not the fact of this case.

Shakur Can’t Promote

Shakur can’t promote tickets, and he’s not a PPV attraction. Hearn will see for himself subsequent month when Shakur headlines the undercard towards Joe Cordina on October twelfth on PPV for $14.99.

Hearn gained’t need to take care of the complications concerned with overpaying contenders to comply with battle Shakur, and he positively is not going to be eager about overpaying for mismatches.

If Hearn thinks that it was a nightmare to attempt to arrange fights for IBF welterweight champion Jaron ‘Boots’ Ennis towards the champions at 147, simply wait and see what it’ll be like for him making an attempt to get fights for Shakur at 135 after Zepeda or Tank beats him.

With out His Excellency Turki Alalshikh serving to out to finance getting opponents for Shakur, I don’t see Hearn eager to give you the cash to rebuild Shakur after he’s blasted into the subsequent galaxy by Zepeda or Tank.

Should-win Fights

Matchroom promoter Hearn has a three-fight plan for WBC light-weight champion Shakur (22-0, 10 KOs):

Joe Cordina
William Zepeda
Gervonta Davis

There’s a superb opportunity that Shakur’s brief run as one in every of Hearn’s Matchroom secure fighters will finish along with his battle towards Zepeda (31-0, 27 KOs). We’ve already seen Hearn quit on American fighters prior to now after they didn’t grow to be stars for him. One instance was Demetrius Andrade.

Hearn made a superficial effort to show him right into a star, matching him towards primarily domestic-level British fighters after which selecting to not renew Andrade’s contract when he failed to realize reputation. He was genuinely obtuse about how he’d fumbled the job with Demetrius, and now he’s doing the identical factor with Shakur.

Stevenson has by no means fought a strain fighter who throws as many punches, cuts off the ring, and possesses Zepeda’s energy. I see Shakur shedding that battle and utterly demolished in a one-sided affair.

It’ll be attention-grabbing for 3 rounds, however Zepeda will catch as much as Shakur by the fourth spherical and knock him out simply as he did with the mover Giovanni Cabrera on July sixth.