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Floyd Schofield predicts that WBC light-weight champion Shakur Stevenson will “mentally” break down from the punishing photographs he’ll hit him with this Saturday, February twenty second, of their combat on the DAZN PPV card in Riyadh. Schofield says Shakur is functioning on the developmental stage of a “seven-year-old” baby and the kind of “ignorant” particular person he dislikes.
The oddsmakers and followers are overwhelmingly choosing Shakur to win this combat towards the inexperienced 22-year-old Schofield. Nevertheless, Schofield is an enormous puncher and fearless. He’s going to assault Shakur, put palms on him, and drive him to combat or run.
Can Shakur Face up to the Strain
Schofield says he’s hoping Stevenson, a Newark, New Jersey native, doesn’t have a hand harm or another unreported downside. He desires full credit score for beating him. Shakur blamed his much-criticized efficiency towards Edwin De Los Santos on being injured. Most followers who have been smart to the fighter’s excuses didn’t purchase that clarification from Shakur, however a number of of his loyalists did.
With an upset of the unbeaten Stevenson, Schofield (18-0, 12 KOs) can steal the limelight from the headliner between undisputed mild heavyweight champion Artur Beterbeiv and Dmitry Bivol.
“He’s going to get hit, and we’re going to see if he can take those hits,” stated Floyd Schofield to Battle Hub TV about Shakur Stevenson. “For a certain amount of time. Then I’m going to go home with his belt,” stated Floyd when requested if Shakur can take his photographs. “I just feel like he’ll break down mentally.”
It will be attention-grabbing if Schofield might trigger Shakur to interrupt mentally as a result of he’s dominated everybody he’s confronted, kind of, besides De Los Santos. He’s going to need to do quite a lot of chasing to “break” Shakur except he can get him mad sufficient to the place he loses his management and begins combating like a mad man.
We noticed a few of that in Shakur’s loss to Cuba’s Robeisy Ramirez within the 2016 Olympic finals. That was the one the place Shakur cried tearlessly after the combat.
“I feel like people haven’t actually hit him, and I have the ability to hit him. I want him to give me a fight. I don’t want Shakur with the hand problems. I want him to fight me back. It motivates me a lot because nobody is stopping me,” stated Schofield when advised that Shakur stated that he’d knock him out.
“I’m not going wherever, particularly towards a fighter like him. He might need to convey a sledgehammer in there. Persons are going to be mad in the event that they guess on him getting a knockout. I might care much less. Shawn Porter is 40-something years outdated and simply received off the sofa from doing interviews.
“So, I’m not worried about an old, retired Shawn Porter who doesn’t even be in the gym can do for you. You’re fighting me. You’re not fighting Shawn Porter,” stated Schofield, reacting to being advised that Shakur has reportedly been wanting good sparring Porter.
