Comments Thread For: Tapping The Brakes on Shakur Stevenson's Lightweight Hype

[Jwil20]

I saw the parking lot video and I get the hate but where is this same energy for Billy joe Saunders. Just seems like sometimes it’s easily to fall into stereotypes with young men. We gotta do better as adults!

[Boogieboy12345]

Shakur calling Lomachenko, Haney, Tank knowing they all have fights but he remains quiet when Jamaine Ortiz keeps wanting to fight him.

[messi807]

Yeah we’re not toning down the ‘hype’.

Golovkin was deemed a P4P #1/2 before even beating David Lemieux with a below par resumè & 30 something fights. Media started comparing him with Hagler and the greatest middleweights of all time.

Stevenson hasn’t had half the hype as Loma or Golovkin and is a better fighter, HAS much more talent, more potential and WILL have a way better string of wins on his resumè.

[Toprope]

Shakur calling Lomachenko, Haney, Tank knowing they all have fights but he remains quiet when Jamaine Ortiz keeps wanting to fight him.

So what's your understanding of why Stevenson moved up? Are you saying Stevenson wasn't after these guys until after his fight last week? Those fights were in negotiation. Stevenson contracted first. There is a 6 week window between Stevenson, Tank/Garcia and Loma/Haney fights. So Stevenson, 2 class world and unified champ, and one step away from undisputed at 130, should fight Ortiz, who lost to Loma already, instead of the winner of these next 2 fights scheduled in the same 6 week calendar window? Hell, if you really want to move back Ortiz was due to fight Loma while Cruz and Zepeda turned Stevenson down for what so that Zepeda can fight Jaime Arboleda? Make me understand?

[A.B Counterhooks]

Its safe to say Yoshino had no business being in there with shakur it was a very winnable fight for him ,still that doesn't take fact the kid is talented and with very high expectation from him at 135-140 divisions, I also believe his ceiling will be at 147.

[-Kev-]

I agree completely but just wanted to say this article was in my google feed and once I saw the title, I knew it was written by Lyle Fitzsimmons

[Boxfan83]

Hate him or love him Shakur will be on the top 10 p4p list for a very long time. Its going to take a much bigger fighter with with some speed, power, and an orthodox approach to beat him.

[Combat Talk Radio]

Terrance Crawford not only fought champions he won eight world titles in 3 weight classes, made boxing history unifying at 140lbs and currently the WBO 147lb champion.

In fact...if Terrance Crawford quit today he is guaranteed Hall of Fame status.

"At The End Of The Day", Crawford's best win (HIS words) is Jeff Horn. So

[The D3vil]

My whole issue with Stevenson is that fight in the parking garage they got on video. That kind of fight makes you a thug in my eyes.

He could have been a clean cut, clean image fighter, but that incident did damage his image. Especially since it was over a girl who turned him down while Shakur already was in a relationship. Dude straight up started scrapping with a female which is a no go on my book. The worse part was he couldn't even knock her out


Other than that, when it comes to boxing I tend to ignore the shlt outside the ring and Shakur will probably be sitting on top the throne when the smoke settles at 135.

Man, y'all trippin'.

I watched fight.

He got into the fight with MEN and the woman got inbetween the men and caught a stray.

BIG DIFFERENCE

That's not just randomly beating up some woman.

That's why we tell women to stay out of men's physical altercation

"At The End Of The Day", Crawford's best win (HIS words) is Jeff Horn. So

Who cares what he said?

Maybe the Joe Horn fight had some sort of special meaning for him.

As boxing observers we know he has better wins than Joe Horn

[MONGOOSE66]

When is Tank going to call out a REAL top guy? Shakur never mentions Tank either. Neither does Shakur.