Edwin De Los Santos: record, next fight and profile →
The last fighter to hold the WBC lightweight title was not at all impressed with the fight to fill that vacancy. Devin Haney didn’t even wait until the final bell to take a parting shot at Shakur Stevenson, who outpointed Edwin De Los Santos over twelve painfully dull rounds to win the vacant WBC 135-pound title. Newark’s Stevenson won by scores of
Edwin De Los Santos made CompuBox history tonight in WBC world title fight against Shaku Stevenson. His 40 landed punches are the fewest landed punches in a twelve round fight in CompuBox's 38-year history.
Shakur Stevenson is now a three-weight world champion. Stevenson (21-0, 10 KOs) captured the vacant WBC lightweight crown with a unanimous decision win against Dominican puncher Edwin De Los Santos (16-2, 14 KOs) Thursday evening at T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas, Nevada.
By Keith Idec – If East Coast fight fans weren’t already asleep when the Shakur Stevenson-Edwin De Los Santos fight finally started at 12:08 a.m. ET early Friday morning, the epically cautious southpaws did little throughout their 12-round, 135-pound championship match to help keep them awake.
Stevenson vs. De Los Santos Scorecard BoxingScene Live - In the main event, Shakur Stevenson will attempt to become a three-weight world champion when he takes on Dominican puncher Edwin De Los Santos for the vacant WBC lightweight world title.
Edwin De Los Santos doesn’t usually pay much mind to the odds on his fights. Shakur Stevenson is such a huge favorite entering their lightweight title fight Thursday night, though, that numerous gamblers have shown the Dominican southpaw their betting slips. An appreciative De Los Santos has promised to make them rich.
By Cliff Rold - There is a corner of boxing that says Shakur Stevenson is a pound-for-pound king in waiting. Maybe he is. We won’t know one way or the other just yet on Thursday night (ESPN, 10:30 PM EST) but all Stevenson can do is stay active and collecting belts until the big fights come. If he keeps winning, the time will come when there is a Tank Davis, a Devin Haney, a Teofimo Lopez across the ring to give him a chance to further his case.
Edwin De Los Santos sees Shakur Stevenson as the best opponent of his professional career. The Dominican southpaw surprisingly considers Stevenson only slightly better, though, than Francisco Contreras. The Dominican Republic’s Contreras took a 31-10 record into a six-round fight De Los Santos won by unanimous decision 4½ years ago in Santo Domingo.
In 2022, the ladder that Edwin De Los Santos had to climb reached far into the Heavens. Against William Foster III, the Dominican suffered the first, and so far only, loss of his career. He might’ve been despondent but De Los Santos dusted himself off and got right back to work.
Shakur Stevenson has been racing around Sin City in recent days promoting his Nov. 16 vacant WBC lightweight title fight against Edwin De Los Santos at the T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas.