Shakur Stevenson: From “the best” to “the bag”? The fight

Hoya’s promoter Oscar has revealed today that Shakur Stevenson has “He left the fight of William Zepeda.“Shakur published the reason for X, saying that Turki had promised him a financial amount for Zepeda’s struggle, but now he” returns to “.

The deployment

Shakur did not mention the amount of money Turki planned to offer Zepeda’s struggle (33-0, 27 kos), but he seems to have changed his mind. Stevenson chooses not to move forward with the struggle shows that he has focused more on “The bag” that in their legacy or increasing their popularity. What happened to Shakur eager to prove it is the best? Now, it focuses on money, it looks like Edgar Berlanga.

It would be interesting to know how much Turki offered Stevenson in the past for the fight with Zepeda. If it is the same amount he achieved for his last fight against the part -time Boxeador Josh Padley on February 22, this should be enough to happen with the game. Shakur’s Light WBC champion was paid well to defend padley in the Dazn PPV Card in Riyadh.

If Stevenson hoped to get $ 10 million for a title defense against Zepeda, he will deceive. It is not an attractive PPV. On the other hand, Zepeda has become background performances against Tevin Farmer in his last two fights.

PPV risk

He has certainly lost fans of these two fights. For Turki to try to sell a struggle of Shakur vs. Zepeda as a starter Dazn PPV It would be a financial disaster. Even with a loaded subcard, this event would bomb if Shakur is in the headline.

Stevenson has not increased its popularity since it moved to the light division by 2023. This is the main problem. He had fought against some obscure Japanese fighter in his first game in 135, and then had this terrible performance against Edwin de los Santos in which the fans left the T-Mobile Arena for 12 rounds. Stevenson continued with an equally unpleasant struggle against Artem Harutyunyan in his last struggle with the first place.

Instead of fighting the dangerous punch, Jadier Herrera, on February 22 card, Shakur chose the electrician Josh Padley. It is quite obvious that with the way Stevenson fits, he remains far from the hard opposition to make sure he does not look bad again.

When you take into account all this, why would Turki want to pay Shakur what I expected to get a fight against Zepeda? If it were something, Turki should wash -Shakur’s hands and treat it as if it were invisible. It must focus on exciting fighters for their letters. Stevenson does not meet these criteria.

The promise was broken

😂😂😂😂 Is that what they told you ?? Turki promised me a number and now returned to his way he promised and sent his towel boys to do the information instead of saying -directly to me what he tries to do. https://t.co/s33oy0cefy

– Shakur Stevenson (@shakurstevenson) April 5, 2025