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Commentator Tim Bradley says Shakur Stevenson ought to ignore the criticism he receives for being a defensive, pure boxer that avoids getting hit in his fights. Bradley states that Shakur (23-0, 11 KOs) ought to proceed to combat the best way he does, present “greatness,” and choose up your “check” to go residence.
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Tim desires Shakur to proceed with the archaic, fossilised model that he makes use of from a bygone period and hopes the youthful followers that desire to be entertained will get pleasure from his outdated model. It feels like a dumb concept, however what alternative does Stevenson have?
Fashionable Calls for
Tim factors out that followers up to now used to name Floyd Mayweather Jr “boring,” and he nonetheless made a fortune along with his safety-first preventing model. Nevertheless, Bradley is leaving out that Mayweather gained fame within the early days of the Web, earlier than MMA took off, and when boxing followers had fewer leisure choices than now. If Floyd got here round now, he wouldn’t be must-watch TV for U.S followers and wouldn’t be a PPV attraction. He could be pressured to draw curiosity in his fights by trash-talking.
“Go into that ring and handle your business. Just keep winning. They said the same thing about Floyd Mayweather years ago. ‘He was boring.’ You can’t buy into that. Keep boxing the way you’re boxing. Keep using your skills. It doesn’t matter what the fans say. It doesn’t matter what these casuals are saying,” mentioned Tim Bradley to Fighthype, coming to the protection of Shakur Stevenson, enabling him to maintain preventing in his boring model.
Bradley desires Shakur to maintain preventing the best way he does, to not change, and finally he’ll change into a star. Nevertheless, it hasn’t occurred, and he’s lagging behind youthful, extra entertaining fighters arising. Sadly, has no alternative. He has no punching energy, and it could break him if he tried to combat in an thrilling model.
Shakur would get knocked out repeatedly. We noticed how he was getting hit rather a lot in his final combat towards the weak British home stage fighter, Josh Padley, on February twenty second. If Stevenson stood within the pocket towards a fighter with energy, like Jadier Herrera, he’d have been destroyed. Therefore, that’s clearly why the Cuban wasn’t chosen as his opponent. Shakur wanted to entertain on that card, and he wouldn’t be capable of do this towards a fighter that might punch.
Consideration Spans
“As long as you’re going home with a check and a big W, and you keep showing your greatness every time you’re inside that ring, keep doing you. If I could go back and box like Shakur Stevenson, I would go back and box like him,” mentioned Bradley.
“With Shakur Stevenson, the attention span [for fans] is no longer there for boxing [for defensive, safety-first fighters in this era]. In MMA, you hit a guy, and they fall. They either get knocked out or choked out. So, I think that has a lot to do with it. The younger generation now have UFC. Back then [in the past], they didn’t have UFC. Now, the technology [Internet & cable television] and social media. A lot of people have short attention spans. They want knockouts,” mentioned Bradley.
