His hometown crowd booed Shakur Stevenson’s efficiency in opposition to Artem Harutyunyan on Saturday night time on the Prudential Heart in Newark, New Jersey.
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Shifting the Blame
This was the second consecutive struggle that followers had booed Shakur, however on this case, he blamed it on his opponent quite than accepting that he’d not completed his half to make it thrilling for the followers.
After the struggle, Shakur stated that Harutyunyan was operating from him, which is unbelievable. If he thought Harutyunyan was operating, what was Shakur doing when he fought Edwin De Los Santos? He’s not self-aware of his flaws.
WBC light-weight champion Stevenson (22-0, 10 KOs) made it a boring struggle by failing to assault his older opponent, who had no energy and was no menace to knock him out.
A Cautious Method
Shakur, 27, didn’t struggle like a youthful fighter would, happening the assault the way in which he wanted to impress the followers by beating up and knocking out Harutyunyan (13-2, 7 KOs). He fought like a 40-year-old attempting to preserve vitality.
Stevenson received by a twelve-round unanimous resolution, however many rounds had been shut and will have gone the opposite option to his opponent. The scores had been 119-109, 118-110, and 116-112.
“I wish to struggle the very best fighters in boxing. That’s once you’ll see the very best model of me once you put me within the ring with any individual else that desires to struggle again and compete,” stated Shakur Stevenson within the post-fight interview after his win over Artem Harutyunyan on Saturday night time.
I hate to be the one to interrupt this to Shakur, however his efficiency tonight wasn’t adequate to earn him a struggle in opposition to Gervonta Davis. Shakur has to do higher than that if he needs to struggle Tank as a result of he was too cautious and didn’t let his arms go to show he deserves that struggle.
“I believe the boos had been due to him. He didn’t attempt to make the struggle,” stated Shakur, reacting to being instructed that among the crowd was booing his struggle in direction of the top.
“it’s sort of arduous to show it once you don’t have a fighter attempting to struggle again. He was simply attempting to outlive. I’d have needed him to strive somewhat tougher so it could be a enjoyable struggle,” stated Shakur, blaming his opponent Harutyunyan for failing to show that he’s ‘That man’ within the light-weight division. “I did the whole lot I may to get him out of there too.”
Shakur has a protracted option to go earlier than he’s able to struggle Tank Davis as a result of, based mostly on his efficiency, he doesn’t price the struggle and has no likelihood of profitable. He wouldn’t even beat Vasily Lomachenko preventing like this.
High Rank doesn’t have to fret about followers booing Shakur anymore as a result of he’s not their drawback. His contract expired along with his struggle in opposition to Harutyunyan, and now he can signal another person. They will fear about his lack of enchantment with the and and the networks.
