Is Stevenson a Milli Vanilli boxing? Padley Fight, Tank Dream

Shakur Stevenson is proud of his performance last Saturday night, stopping Josh Padley in the ninth round in a successful defense of his lightweight weight title of the WBC at Riad’s place.

Stevenson (11-0, 11 kos) boasts that he showed the “Art of Hit and Don’t Get Hit“In his victory on Padley (15-1, 4 kos), who was selected by his promoter, Eddie Hearn, such as the replacement of the Ill Floyd Schofield.

The tank fight is still a dream

It was not the impressive performance that the 2016 Olympic silver medalist Stevenson needed to impress fans or present a case for him deserving a fight against Gervonta Davis below. For that low -level opponent, Shakur needed a first -round knockout because Padley was not world class. Stevenson’s popularity did not increase with that performance.

It was more one step back for Shakur, who fought as if he couldn’t fight in a higher march. He stood directly, threw arm blows and threw himself when he attacked. It was very shy and it is not interesting to see it. Turki Alalshikh should have placed Shakur-Padley’s fight at the beginning of Saturday’s event with the Mohammed Alakel against Engel Gómez and Ziyad Almaayouf vs. Jonatas Rodrigo Gomes de Oliveira Fights.

After the fight, Shakur and Hearn called the lightweight champion of the amb tank, wishing him the next one for a unification fight. Both stated that a Tank-Stevenson unification is the “greatest fight in boxing.” Both obviously know that it was not close to a good enough performance against the weakest fighter that could be found to attract Tank Davis to a fight.

A manufactured fighter?

If Hearn is not willing to match Shakur against good fighters for fear of losing, he deserves to be ignored by Tank. If an elegant promoter protects a fighter, as we see with Stevenson, they do not qualify the ring. At this time, Shakur seems like a typical manufactured fighter, protected by its promoters with the sole purpose of obtaining a great money fight and then discarded as garbage without value after loses. In other words, Stevenson is a Fake Milli Vanilli as creation.

Hearn needs to match Shakur against these combatants to prove that it is real:

1. Abdullah Mason
2. Andy Cruz
3. Ernesto Mercado
4. Raymond Muratalla
5. William Zepeda

“It was a tremendous performance. I showed the art of success and they don’t hit me, “said Shakur Stevenson to media After his victory as Tko over Ham and Egger Josh Padley on Saturday night in Riyadh. “They really didn’t move me like that, but I put my hands.

“Respect Josh Padley to take a step forward and do what many people don’t want to do. Many people don’t want to enter the ring with me. So, I appreciate it, ”Shakur continued. “The reason why they don’t want to enter the ring with me is because I understand ‘hitting and not being beaten.’

“I love it,” Shakur said when asked about his reaction to being booed by fans. “Josh Padley is six hours in London. Then, I probably have more fans here than me, but I fell them. They stopped talking, they shut up and did what I was supposed to do. “

Many combatants would have been willing to fight Shakur, but money was never there to fight him. He is a left -handed with an ugly defensive style, which implies running. Their fights are booed, and there has never been a reason for any high -level fighter to face that type of type. If Turki Alalshikh wants to attract Tank Davis with Gazillions or one of the other talented fighters like Andy Cruz, he can do it, but the template will be prepared for Shakur. He will not beat any of those fighters and will probably look bad in the loss.