Hearn: Shakur can’t get out of Zepeda

Promoter Eddie Hearn says his fighter Shakur Stevenson will not be able to run around the ring on Saturday night because William Zepeda will go after him all night on July 12.

Hearn has been wrong before and I suspect he will cover his ears to grate the boos if the light champion of WBC, Stevenson (23-0, 11 kos), decides not to stop and fight the challenger Zepeda (33-0, 27 kos).

Turki Alshikh has exhibited his directive Tom and Jerry for fighters on Saturday card to follow. If Shakur decides to ignore it, it will be interesting to see the gaze on Turki’s face as he looks.

Hearn: Shakur can’t run

“Zepeda will be presented all night. Shakur will not be able to run around the ring. Anyway does not run around the ring. He is very smart, “said Eddie Hearn in Ring Magazine canalGiving a euphemistic tag on Shakur Stevenson’s career. “”

Notice how Hearn was caught after admitting that Shakur is a runner. He quickly changed his melody by saying “he does not run”. Is an old man Freudian slip. He spoke the truth about Jerry, and then he took and reversed the course.

“I have all this of Tom and Jerry. You have to do everything possible for not being affected. Turki Alralikh is not in the fighting field in the way he is looking at the longevity of a fighter career. He only wants entertainment and he wants it now. He is paying the best dollar by entertainment,” said Hearn.

It doesn’t matter if Turki is not in Shakur or in the fighters fields. If you pay them millions by entertainment, you should wait for them not to run around the ring, stinking the joint as they make fans. He wants their events to do well, bring a good number and praised by fans as a value.

Turki cannot do it if it allows the fighters to turn their fights into issues of Tom and Jerry. Therefore, he is not mistaken to wait for Shakur to fight. Ideally, he does not invite him if he turns the fight against William Zepeda into a track encounter. Stevenson has received the warning and, if he decides to ignore it, do not invite him. This is what I would do if I were Turki.

Turki demands shares

“You will not get these fighters to change their style because Turki wants an entertaining struggle. I think this is the type of struggle where Shakur will really show his greatness,” said Hearn.

If runners like Shakur and Devin Haney refuse to change their styles, Turki can finish them and focus on using only the entertaining ones. They will change their ways if Turki leaves them out of their invitations list, which would have been done years ago. You cannot expect Stevenson to change his struggle because he does not physically adapt to fighting in his pocket with the murderers at 135 or even in 130.