
Shakur Stevenson: You Can't Judge Me Off Of One Fight, When I Performed Time & Time Again
ATLANTA – Shakur Stevenson doesn’t feel any additional pressure to deliver more entertainment Saturday night than he did during his last fight.
Jamel Herring: record, next fight and profile →

ATLANTA – Shakur Stevenson doesn’t feel any additional pressure to deliver more entertainment Saturday night than he did during his last fight.

Shakur Stevenson is a much heavier favorite than most challengers in world championship prizefights. Caesars Sportsbook has established the unbeaten southpaw as a 10-1 favorite over Jamel Herring in advance of their 130-pound championship match Saturday night. Herring will make the fourth defense of his WBO junior lightweight title versus Stevenson, yet it is as if bettors and handicappers have determined it’s a foregone conclusion that the younger, slicker Stevenson will become a champion in a second division at State Farm Arena in Atlanta.

By Cliff Rold - As far as good fights between big fights go, this one ain’t bad. We have a clash of US Olympians, one in his mid-30s, the other in his mid-20s, and they don’t seem to particularly like each other. No, this isn’t the sort of intensity we saw a few weeks ago in Fury-Wilder. It’s more an older man annoyed by the younger.

Stevenson, Herring Weights Photos Gallery - Top Rank junior lightweights Jamel “Semper Fi” Herring and Shakur Stevenson have exchanged verbal volleys in person and on social media, and they will settle the score Saturday, Oct. 23, live on ESPN. (photos by Stacey Snyder and Mikey Williams)

ATLANTA – A stone-faced Jamel Herring stood approximately three inches taller than Shakur Stevenson as they went face-to-face following their weigh-in Friday afternoon.

ATLANTA – Terence Crawford sparred with Jamel Herring to help Herring prepare for each of the determined Marine’s first six fights with Crawford’s training team.

By Keith Idec - ATLANTA – Shakur Stevenson smiled and diverted his attention away from Jamel Herring when he heard Brian McIntyre talking trash a few feet away from the stage Thursday afternoon.

Herring-Stevenson Final Presser Photos Gallery - They started as acquaintances, but once Jamel Herring acquired the belt Shakur Stevenson wanted, the friendly vibes went out the window. Herring will defend his WBO junior lightweight world title against former featherweight champion Stevenson on Saturday night from State Farm Arena in Atlanta (ESPN, ESPN Deportes & ESPN+, 10:30 p.m. ET). (photos by Mikey Williams)

ATLANTA – Jamel Herring noticed a dramatic change late in the sixth round of the Shakur Stevenson-Jeremiah Nakathila fight. Herring sat ringside June 12 in Las Vegas, thus the WBO junior lightweight champion got a real feel for how the right hand Nakathila landed late during that round altered Stevenson’s strategy. Once Stevenson felt the Namibian boxer’s power, Herring sensed that he was wary of taking flush punches for the remainder of their 12-round fight for the WBO’s interim 130-pound championship.

Former two division world champion Timothy Bradley expects some fireworks when Olympic silver medal winner Shakur Stevenson challenges WBO super featherweight world champion Jamel Herring on Saturday night in Atlanta.