By Matt Lieberman: Shakur Stevenson (17-0, 9 KOs) referred to as out WBC 130-lb champion Oscar Valdez moments after defeating WBO tremendous featherweight champion Jamel ‘Semper Fi’ Herring (23-3, 11 KOs) by a tenth spherical knockout final Saturday night time.
Stevenson picked Herring aside with correct punches on the surface and the within. It didn’t matter. There was no space the place Stevenson didn’t dominate the 35-year-old Herring.
Within the tenth, Herring was reduce over his proper eye. The referee Mark Nelson stopped the motion and had Herring’s reduce examined by the ringside physician.
When the combat resumed, Stevenson tore into Herring, hitting him with photographs on his reduce. With the best way Herring appeared defenseless, the referee had no selection however to halt it, which he did within the tenth.
Shakur calls out Oscar Valdez
Stevenson, 24, says there’s just one combat left for him at 130, so far as he’s involved, and that’s Oscar Valdez (30-0, 23 KOs) for a unification combat.
It’s going to be as much as Stevenson’s promoter Bob Arum if he’s going to let him take the combat with Valdez. It’s not a great signal that Arum didn’t touch upon Stevenson’s name out of Valdez.
Arum desires Stevenson to combat Navarrete subsequent
Maybe one cause for that he’s inquisitive about matching Stevenson towards Emanuel Navarrete subsequent. That’s a combat that Arum stated this week that he would need to make if Shakur efficiently defeated Herring,
“There’s just one combat left,” stated Stevenson after the combat. “It’s the most important combat on the finish of the day. Oscar {Valdez} can’t preserve ducking. It’s time for him to combat. There’s nothing else to look ahead to. The 130-pound division must unify. Let’s get it!
“I need to be a celebrity within the sport. I’m right here to final. I take my craft very significantly. I’m disciplined,” stated Stevenson.
“My mindset was, ‘I’m stepping into there to take the belt. I’m not going to make this shut or make it what they count on it to be,’” stated Shakur Stevenson on the post-fight press convention in reacting to his win over Herring.
“I wished to dominate. And I dominate all my fights, and nothing goes to alter with anyone in entrance of me. I don’t care who it’s,” stated Shakur.
“That’s what I used to be pondering within the combat,” stated Stevenson about him remembering throughout the combat how folks had stated he was boring. “I used to be pondering, ‘I’m not going to again up.’
“There have been instances the place he tried to select it up on me. I’m like, ‘Okay, And I’m nonetheless going to remain right here. And I’m not going to go nowhere. I’m going to face my floor, and when it’s time, I’m going to select it again up on him.’
Stevenson enjoys combating aggressively
“Most positively,” stated Stevenson when requested if he enjoys combating aggressively and pressuring his opponents. “I obtained canine in me. Folks have to grasp that too.
“I’m from Northern New Jersey. I’ve all the time had canine in me. I don’t know why folks all the time assume that I don’t obtained canine in me as a result of I dominated and made it look simple.
“And I obtained either side in me. I can field, and I can combat. I’m greater than only a boxer. No, under no circumstances,” stated Stevenson stated when requested if the combat was simpler than he anticipated. “Jamel is a tricky fighter.
“He was in good condition; he’s obtained an awesome crew and an awesome recreation plan. I’m not going to say it was simple.You bought to respecct Jamel. He’s a hell of a fighter, and I used to be simply the higher man.
“I can’t make you a buddy once I’m combating you. So I’ve obtained to make you an enemy,” stated Stevenson.
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