Via Sam Volz: Shakur Stevenson is starting to seem obsessed with fighting the famous William Zepeda and Isaac ‘Pitbull’ Cruz for his next contest.
Neither of those top contenders want to fight newcomer Stevenson (19-0.9 KOs) at 135 lb, but that doesn’t stop him from continuing to eliminate both.
Pitbull Cruz wants a rematch with the WBA’s ‘regular’ lightweight champion, but he has to wait for him to take on Hector Luis Garcia and Ryan Garcia to fight next year.
Zepeda’s promoters at Golden Boy Promotions will pit him against the last man standing in the undisputed clash between Devin Haney and Vasyl Lomachenko. Shakur has nothing to beat Zepeda and Pitbull.
“Contract in progress, damn it,” said Shakur Stevenson above social media, saying that he is said to be sending the contract to William Zepeda. “Look what you do.
“Your team said, you know. New era. Our generation is taking over. We are taking over everything. You all have to move out of the way.
“’Zepeda can beat you.’ Okay, tell him to fight me so I can show him. How will he hit me if he knows what I know? I am honing my skills every day. I’m watching boxing and learning from the greats, from the people who came before me.
“What’s he doing? I don’t know what he’s doing,” Stevenson said of Zepeda. “But he doesn’t seem to be honing. He just throws a bunch of punches for no reason. “I’m slow as hell, how are you going to be so slow and beat me?” Stevenson said.
Top-ranked Stevenson needs to face famous boxers like Zepeda (27-0.23 KOs) and Pitbull Cruz (24-2-1, 17 KOs), but he has nothing to offer. for them.
Shakur, 25, is not a world champion, he is not very popular and his defensive fighting style is not attractive. Famous Mexican boxers like Zepeda and Pitbull don’t want to chase their opponents around the ring for 12 rounds. It would be worth it for them to fight Shakur if he were to become a big star, but he hasn’t reached that point yet.
Stevenson doesn’t need to lift a finger to get a title in 2023. His Top Rated promoters plan to match him with the winner of the lightweight champion fight Undisputed Devin Haney and Vasyl Lomachenko next year.
All Stevenson needs to do is wait, and he’ll get a title fight by his supporters.
Stevenson said of Zepeda: “His team has made it clear that this fight is too early. “I’m 25, he’s probably 26 or 27. What the hell is he waiting for?
“If I wait any longer, someone else will beat him anyway. Let me take my turn. Let me give credit for smoking him before someone else smoked him. Before some name does not appear and beat him.
“I always bet on myself. You’ve never seen me in trouble in my fights. In my final battle, I prevailed from start to finish [against Robson Conceicao]. All they could say was, ‘He got hit a little bit more.’ Man, I dominated that guy. I beat him.
“I should have stopped him. My bad; I should have stopped him. We left home like a winner. All these a** punk warriors, they’re scared. Y’all followed Pitbull, Isaac Cruz. Let’s call him ap***sy.
“Pressure. Even if the Pitbull gets out of the way, stay calm. Goodbye, little pit bull. Zepeda, come on. Go put pressure on him. If he’s a killer, put pressure on him.
“They won’t like this version of me. I’m trying to relax. I’m trying to sit back. They don’t like this version. Go tell these guys, let’s fight.
“Two murderers, supposedly. Pitbull and William Zepeda. Two assassins. One is undefeated, and the other is a loser, and that’s Tank. Any. If they kill people, come on, do it.
“Put them back. Put them in front of me, and I’m smoking them. Bet your pocket on me, I’m telling you. You will go up,” Stevenson said.
