By: Sean Crose
Light-weight king Shakur Stevenson has signed up with Matchroom Boxing. “I’m prepared to start out this subsequent chapter of my profession and it begins on October 12 with Joe Cordina on the stacked Riyadh Season card in Saudi Arabia,” Stevenson stated in a press launch. “I’ve made it clear that I need the largest names and the largest fights within the sport. Convey on William Zepeda on the high of 2025 and I’m prepared for anybody who’s courageous sufficient to step within the ring with me. There have been few prepared to tackle that problem in recent times.”
The undefeated, 22-0 Stevenson has been on the lookout for a serious contest for ages. Certainly, the person arguably has two issues working in opposition to him. The very first thing is that he’s a VERY good fighter. Stevenson is usually accused of being a boring fighter, nonetheless. The person merely isn’t an motion oriented athlete. Neither is he notably dazzling to observe, a la defensive legends like Floyd Mayweather or Pernell Whitaker. Nonetheless, nobody in Stevenson’s common weight realm with be thought-about the very best with out squaring off in opposition to the younger man from Newark. Therefore, Stevenson is effective to a promotional outlet similar to Matchroom.
“I’m delighted to welcome what I imagine is a pound-for-pound nice to the Matchroom workforce,” Matchroom honcho Eddie acknowledged. “Shakur Stevenson is 27 and already a three-division World champion and may be unbeatable within the sport of boxing. This younger man must be a world celebrity, and I imagine with our machine behind him, he’ll land all the massive fights and obtain all of the credit score that he deserves.
The journey begins on October 12 in Riyadh on an enormous card, and we can not anticipate the long run collectively.”
Stevenson’-Cordina t shall be on the undercard of the extremely anticipated Artur Beterbirev-Dmitry Bivol undisputed gentle heavyweight title struggle. “With Matchroom and Riyadh Season, I’m teaming up with a promotional power that matches my world class expertise,” Stevenson stated. “We shall be unstoppable out and in of the ring, and I’ll proceed to point out my dominance for a few years to return within the sport of boxing.” That’s one thing Matchroom clearly hopes is true.
“Stevenson boasts a flawless resume,” the promotional outlet claimed, “having defeated the likes of Oscar Valdez, Robson Conceicao and Jamel Herring – which has seen him gather the WBC and WBO Tremendous Featherweight straps, together with the WBO Featherweight title throughout an unimaginable profession thus far.”
