Olympic silver medal winner Shakur Stevenson played the role of headliner and shined. Stevenson, the former featherweight world champion, secured a 10-round unanimous decision over veteran Toka Kahn Clary in the junior lightweight main event Saturday from the MGM Grand Las Vegas Bubble.
Unbeaten Olympic silver medal winner Shakur Stevenson is returning to the ring on Saturday night, when he faces Toka Kahn Clary at the MGM Grand's Conference Center in Las Vegas. Stevenson, who captured a world title at featherweight, is the WBO's mandatory challenger at 130-pounds.
Carl Frampton, 33-years-old, is beyond motivated to become a three division world champion. After capturing world titles at super bantamweight and featherweight, he will attempt to capture the WBO super featherweight title when he faces Jamel Herring in early 2021.
It seems Jamel Herring gets his wildcard to defend his WBO world title against Carl Frampton next. Top Rank promoter Bob Arum told BoxingScene.com the bout could take place in January in the UK.
On a series designed to encourage its winners to advance to the next level, O’Shaquie Foster has every intention of embarking on that very journey following his latest win. The switch-hitting junior lightweight showed his versatility in a 9th round stoppage of former title challenger Miguel ‘Mickey’ Roman. Their bout served as the inaugural headliner of the new Ring City boxing series on NBC Sports Network, which aired live Thursday evening from Wild Card Boxing Club in Hollywood.
Jamel Herring appears to be set for the most significant fight of his pro career. The reigning WBO junior lightweight titlist is poised to next defend his belt versus Belfast’s Carl Frampton. BoxingScene.com has learned that the long-awaited matchup is being targeted to take place on the weekend preceding Martin Luther King Jr. Day, with the bout to air live on an ESPN platform from a location to be determined in the United Kingdom.
The fight between junior lightweight world titlist Jamel Herring and former two-division titlist Carl Frampton, which is penciled in for Dec. 19 in the United Kingdom, could move into January to ensure an American broadcaster but if it remains in December it would not have a broadcast home in the United States, Top Rank promoter Bob Arum told BoxingScene.com.
Rising star Shakur Stevenson has a short-term goal of winning a junior lightweight world title next spring, a longer-term goal of unifying belts after that and then, a few years down the road, he can envision a huge welterweight showdown with pal Teofimo Lopez, the newly crowned unified lightweight world champion.
As previously reported on BoxingScene.com, Jamel Herring will not have to make his mandated title defense next against Shakur Stevenson. Instead, Herring has been allowed by the World Boxing Organization to make a voluntary defense against Carl Frampton.
Jamel Herring and Carl Frampton get to stick to the original program. Concerns over their oft-postponed title fight seeing the light of day were alleviated as clearance has been granted to proceed with such a contest. BoxingScene.com has learned that the World Boxing Organization (WBO) will permit Herring to make a voluntary defense of his junior lightweight title before being ordered to enter a fight with mandatory title challenger Shakur Stevenson.