Comments Thread For: Shakur Stevenson Inks Promotional Pact With Top Rank

[MrClutch85]

Shakur Stevenson should have signed with Mayweather promotions and hired Al Haymon as his manger to fight on PBC and Showtime signing with Top Rank dumb move

[A.K]

If you are unbiased it makes all the sense in the world. Arum has a proven track record of building stars while haymon and Floyd haven't built any stars. At worst you let arum build you then jump ship as a free agent for the big bucks later in your career.

Strait up that's how I'm thinking if I'm him, what can Floyd and haymon do for me as a brand , Floyds brand himself came from arum build up.

[A.K]

huge roster of bums and journey men maybe......

That too and thats what's needed to build up young stars records while having some legit exposure , no one does it better than top rank that's where Floyd and Oscar learned game from.

[Hatesrats]

Interesting... I see Arum using Shakur to feed his other top guys.
Let's see what happens

[killakali]

Actually, Richard Schaefer has signed most of the Olympic talent to RingStar. All of which will be fighting on the PBC, obviously. Remember, Haymon is a manager not a promoter.

TopRank got Conlan and now Stevenson (I am not aware of others), but Schaefer has grabbed about 6-7 Olympians

Actually none of Schaefer's have signed with Haymon as a manager.

You are forgetting that Top Rank for Antonio Vargas, Teofimo Lopez, the Brazilian Olympian Robson Concecao and a couple Eastern Europeans I forget their names in addition to conlan and shakur.

[killakali]

HE WAS TRAVELING THE WORLD ON A WORLD TOUR YOU LYING BUM..... HE WENT TO GO WATCH BASKETBALL GAMES AND BOXING.... HE DIDNT GO TO JUST WATCH SHAKUR SMH STOP DREAMING

He even said he went to specifically watch him. U don't know ish

[killakali]

haymon has he most stars in boxing ******..... Haymon doesnt work with ******s like j prince and ward....

Haymon has the most mediocre fighters. Lol. What stars? Danny Garcia has fallen off. Jacobs is being sacrificed to GGG. Wilder could be a star Broner maybe. Thurman-Garcia winner too. But who else? He has too many guys like Gerald Washington and Dominic Breazeale who will never be anything or guys like Charlo who are good but don't sell. Very few stars.

[Sweet Jones]

Strait up that's how I'm thinking if I'm him, what can Floyd and haymon do for me as a brand , Floyds brand himself came from arum build up.

This is assuming that Top Rank will ANY say in Shakur Stevenson's 'brand' or career. The old 'Promoter-controls-my-career' model is almost extinct.

Based on the deliberate moves the kid has made so far (extensive process in selecting of a promoter) and strength/experience of the team he has put around him (J Prince; Andre Ward), I don't think Top Rank's influence will extend beyond providing opponents, photo ops, and flying their banner over the ring when he fights.

My initial thought is that any promoter that signed Stevenson would be in the 'sham promoter' position with Shakur's mgmt. team in the 'Haymon' role.

But time will tell. Still a good get for Arum, though.

[Ake-Dawg]

Hopefully he will do a better job with this dude than he has done with Loma (promotion wise) who he has fighting in Mary fkin land.

Loma will be fighting in the new MGM casino in MD. It's 2 miles from DC. It's a big deal and this casino will host many fights in the future.

[Larry the boss]

Best of luck to him, hope he has a great career