By Brian Webber: Shakur Stevenson is able to face the highly effective#6 Edwin De Los Santos for the vacant WBC light-weight title subsequent on November sixteenth in Las Vegas.
Stevenson vs. De Los Santos will probably be proven on ESPN in the course of the Formulation 1 Grand Prix weekend in Vegas. If De Los Santos places palms on Shakur, he’ll end what Cuban expertise Robeisy Ramirez began within the 2016 Olympics.
De Los Santos is a devastating one-punch knockout artist, with a current third spherical TKO win over Jose Valenzuela and a one-sided ten spherical unanimous determination victory over Joseph Adorno.
The one lack of the 23-year-old Dominican Republic native De Los Santos’ five-year profession was an in depth eight spherical cut up determination to Charles Foster III in 2022.
Benefits De Los Santos:
Energy
Toughness
Youth
Starvation
De Los Santos was attending to Foster within the later rounds, and had that combat handed the eighth, he doubtless would have knocked him out. That’s one of many downsides of fights which might be shorter length. You don’t get to see the knockouts that you just usually would if it had been an extended combat.
Shakur Stevenson and Edwin De Los Santos have agreed to a deal for a Nov. 16 combat in Las Vegas for the vacant WBC light-weight title, sources informed ESPN.
The bout will headline a Prime Rank Boxing on ESPN card on Thursday three days earlier than Formulation 1 debuts in Vegas.
— Mike Coppinger (@MikeCoppinger) September 13, 2023
Boxing followers are already viewing the Stevenson vs. De Los Santos contest as a 50-50 toss-up affair as a result of the punching energy of Edwin greater than evens out the defensive abilities that Shakur brings to the desk.
Stevenson (20-0, 10 KOs) says he sees the hard-hitting southpaw De Los Santos (16-1, 14 KOs) as a greater fighter than Frank Martin (18-0, 12 KOs), who angered him by selecting to not undergo with the combat.
Shakur mentioned on Twitter that Martin wished 50% of the purse, however he denied that. We’ll by no means know for positive. What we do know is Martin selected to not undergo with the combat, and it could possibly be that his administration has a greater choice for him.
It’s rumored that Martin is among the two fighters WBA ‘common’ champion Gervonta ‘Tank’ Davis is contemplating for his subsequent combat in November or December.
The opposite man Tank is contemplating is Isaac ‘Pitbull’ Cruz, who he already beat in December 2021. Hardcore boxing followers would moderately see Gervonta face some new blood, Frank Martin, moderately than carry Pitbull Cruz again for a rematch.
That’s when Stevenson’s deliberate contest in opposition to #2 Martin was alleged to happen, and Prime Rank needs that date to benefit from the F1 Las Vegas Grand Prix.
There will probably be many individuals in Las Vegas that weekend, and lots of will probably be watching at residence on ESPN, which is the community that will probably be exhibiting Shakur’s subsequent combat, be it in opposition to the heavy-handed De Los Santos or maybe Jamaine Ortiz.
Watch out what u ask for.. See y’all in Nov Fr now 👌🏾
— Shakur Stevenson (@ShakurStevenson) September 13, 2023
This fighter bought extra coronary heart then the remainder of em and in truth talking I consider he’s a greater fighter then the bitch Nigga who bought chilly ft and pulled out.. however look u press up on me I’ll reply the cellphone name I don’t duck no smoke let’s get to it nigga @EdwinLaGranada 😤
— Shakur Stevenson (@ShakurStevenson) September 13, 2023
U requested me within the DM’s yesterday.. I defined to u all of the numbers and u nonetheless requested for half of the cash cease da 🧢 https://t.co/x64nSXv8MB
— Shakur Stevenson (@ShakurStevenson) September 12, 2023
