Eddie Hearn instructed promoter Leonard Ellerbe that he desires the Shakur Stevenson vs. Gervonta ‘Tank’ Davis battle to occur in 2025.
Matchroom boss Hearn desires the Tank-Shakur match to occur inside three fights, and he’s not fascinated by ready to let it marinate to make it an even bigger money-maker.
Hearn signed the WBC light-weight champion Shakur (22-0, 10 KOs) to a two-fight cope with Matchroom, and he hopes he’ll lengthen subsequent yr for a mega-PPV unification towards Tank Davis.
Sadly for Hearn, Ellerbe didn’t sound enthused along with his fast timeline for a Tank vs. Stevenson battle, and he says it should occur finally.
Ellerbe didn’t come proper out and say what the true downside is, however clearly, it’s the 2 back-to-back subpar performances from Shakur towards Artem Harutyunyan final July and Edwin De Los Santos.
There was loads of booing from the followers at these occasions, and it wasn’t due to De Los Santos and Harutyunyan. Shakur didn’t come to battle in the best way the followers had anticipated, so that they let him learn about it.
To take advantage of sum of money, Shakur must get 4 good wins underneath his belt, the place he fights within the pocket and exhibits that he can win with out working. The battle towards Cordina is a ineffective tune-up battle that does nothing to construct curiosity for a conflict towards Tank
What Shakur wants are wins over these fighters:
- William Zepeda
- Denys Berinchyk
- Abdullah Mason
- Raymond Muratalla
- Vasily Lomachenko
“I really feel that we’ve acquired a two-fight plan with Shakur, hopefully extends. Joe Cordina, Zepeda in February. I feel Tank vs Shakur is likely one of the largest fights within the sport. I feel Tank is so distinctive it’s going to take somebody nearly as good as Shakur to present him an actual battle, and I like that battle,” stated Eddie Hearn to the media about his eager to make a battle between Shakur Stevenson and Gervonta Davis subsequent yr.
“Tank loses rounds. I feel Shakur’s the person to beat him.”
It’s not a positive factor that Shakur will defeat William Zepeda (31-0, 27 KOs) in February. That’s a troublesome battle for Shakur, and even when he wins, it should seemingly be in the identical style as he did in his slender victory over De Los Santos on November sixteenth final yr in Las Vegas. Shakur was on the transfer the whole battle and regarded like he was working at occasions.
Shakur doesn’t possess the offensive firepower to beat Zepeda with out utilizing motion as a result of he’s in a position to stand and commerce with fighters with energy within the 135-lb division like he’d finished when he fought at 126 and 130.
Stevenson may take their energy higher, however since shifting as much as 135 in 2023, he’s appeared timid and unwilling to face and battle. That’s why it’s stunning that Hearn bothered to signal him as a free agent. However given the massive hurry that Hearn is in to arrange the Tank Davis battle, it seems that his essential curiosity is to get the profitable battle with the Baltimore native.
After that, Shakur might have lived out his usefulness as a result of there are not any different well-paying fights for him at 135, and he’ll seemingly be in want of a prolonged, costly rebuild if Tank knocks him out.
