Shakur Stevenson’s TKO victory over Padley fails to impress, Tank Davis responds with “lol”

Shakur Stevenson immediately called Gervonta ‘Tank’ Davis after his TKO victory of ninth round against his easy replacement opponent Josh Padley, in Riyadh. Tank did not impress his reaction to Shakur the calling on X was, “LOL.”

Shakur’s stock has dropped. It was really not the type of performance that would jump him in a fight against the Tank Davis “Face of Boxing”. He needed an early Knock-out and a much better opponent than this guy.

Disappointing performance

Boxing fans on social networks rattle Shakur on the coals after the way he fought this evening, fighting to defeat a ham and egger chosen by Hearn as a replacement advers. This is not how you proved worthy of meeting the king of the light division, Tank Davis. You have to do better than that.

WBC Champion Lightweight Stevenson (23-0, 11 KB) says that his performance was “good” and that he had proved that he was one “Fighter at the elite levelWith his three Knockdown victory against Padley (15-1, 4 KB).

“It feels good. I put good performances, and there are levels, “said Shakur Stevenson to Dazn boxing After his technical victory over Josh Padley tonight. “It was difficult because of the movement, and he had good little counters and shots he launched. But as I said, there are levels to that. “”

The way Shakur fought this evening, he would lose half a dozen of the 10 best candidates. There is no level A at light weight. He was one of the best at 130 and 126, but at 135, he is not class A. He is class B, which explains why his promoter, Hearn, corresponds to low opposition. He doesn’t want him to be beaten before they get the tank.

“I appreciate him from his intention, to be courageous and to fight me. I want to fight Gervonta ‘Tank’ Davis. I think it is the biggest boxing of boxing. So let’s do it, ”said Stevenson.

“We know that Josh Padley is extremely difficult, and changed an opponent three days before the fight, but enjoying Tank looked. If he wants to intervene and have the biggest fight in sport, we are ready, “Eddie Hearn told Ring MagazineWanting Gervonta Davis then for Shakur Stevenson after his ninth round technical victory on his filling opponent Josh Padley on Saturday evening.

This fight has shown that Stevenson is only a creation of media threshing jobs, and that is why he is accompanied by combatants like Josh Padley and Artem Harutyunyan. It is the same manual that we see with other fighters of that time. They have easy fights, create a CV, then look for a big salary.

The promoter Eddie Hearn should have chosen Andy Cruz as a replacement opponent because at least Shakur would have a solid argument to call Tank because he beat someone good.