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[Robi13]

Shakur Stevenson Accuses Oscar De La Hoya of Bad-Faith Dealings on Possible William Zepeda Fight
BY BEN BLACKWELL
Published Thu Mar 28, 2024

Lightweight titleholder Shakur Stevenson has accused Golden Boy Promotions chairman and CEO Oscar De La Hoya of using his name to benefit the promoter’s own fighter, William Zepeda, despite no offer of a matchup between the two fighters being immediately forthcoming.

Zepeda (30-0, 26 KOs) was recently in action March 16 against Maxi Hughes, defeating the Englishman in the fourth round.

After the fight, De La Hoya alluded to having contacted Stevenson’s representatives to discuss the possibility of a matchup with Zepeda, which Stevenson (21-0, 10 KOs) has stated he is open to exploring.

A post on De La Hoya’s X social media account read: “Shakur, you said nobody wants to fight you. Well, check out William Zepeda on Saturday night on DAZN. He is begging me [that he wants] to fight you.”

Stevenson responded with a post on his own X account, suggesting that De La Hoya had used the fighter’s profile in bad faith and accusing him of backtracking on a Zepeda fight that Stevenson seemingly believes had been proposed:

“Yooo oscardelahoya, I still haven’t heard anything yet about Zepeda fighting me on July 6. How can you say my name over and over and not make the fight happen next? Were you using me to promote your fighter fight or?”

De La Hoya responded with a post insisting that Zepeda was set to make a quick return, and that the promoter would be in touch with Stevenson’s representatives later in the year about a possible matchup with his fighter:

“Zepeda is fighting soon for the second time this year, I’ll talk to your promoter third quarter of this year.”

https://www.boxingscene.com/shakur-s...-fight--182457

Oscar was name dropping after the Hughes fight, then turned b*tch as usual! Arum doesn't want Shakur to beat Navarrette because he knows Shakur may leave after next fight, and he wants Navarrette vs. Lomachenko instead!

Well they are both willing to fight shakur, whatever the politics do and/or say is irrelevant to that fact. I will only watch Shakur fight if it's one of those two, tank, pitbull, Matias, or teofimo. Anyone else and I'll pass

[-Kev-]

After his last “fight”. I agree. No one wants to fight someone that won’t do any type of engaging in the “fight”.

[Bronx2245]

Well they are both willing to fight shakur, whatever the politics do and/or say is irrelevant to that fact. I will only watch Shakur fight if it's one of those two, tank, pitbull, Matias, or teofimo. Anyone else and I'll pass

Somebody is scared of Shakur! It's either Oscar or Zepeda! That's TWICE now that Zepeda has swerved a fight with Shakur! This last time was worse because he called out Shakur in the ring, and then ran away again!

[Robi13]

Somebody is scared of Shakur! It's either Oscar or Zepeda! That's TWICE now that Zepeda has swerved a fight with Shakur! This last time was worse because he called out Shakur in the ring, and then ran away again!

For the most part, no boxer is scared to fight another boxer.. it's what they do for a living. Long as those decimals are proper, mostly anyone will fight anyone. Its more then likely the promoters who get in the way to try and protect their fighters to keep those invoices high. It's no secret

[Bronx2245]

For the most part, no boxer is scared to fight another boxer.. it's what they do for a living. Long as those decimals are proper, mostly anyone will fight anyone. Its more then likely the promoters who get in the way to try and protect their fighters to keep those invoices high. It's no secret

!00% agree! I'm glad Shakur went at Oscar, and not Zepeda! That said though, when someone says "No one wants to fight Shakur," people can't respond and say, "Zepeda, or Navarrette, will fight him," because that's not right and exact! Shakur has been seeking BOTH fighters, and their promoters won't let it happen!