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A drained-looking Shakur Stevenson had his first face-off along with his substitute opponent, Josh Padley in the present day throughout their remaining press convention forward of Saturday’s card on DAZN PPV on the Kingdom Area in Riyadh.
Shakur Drained
WBC light-weight champion Stevenson (22-0, 10 KOs) appeared painfully skinny, like he’d dropped 20 lbs of waterweight forward of Friday’s weigh-in. It’s not a shock as a result of he appeared massive a number of weeks in the past, like a small welterweight. You possibly can inform from Stevenson’s look that he’s going to blow as much as 150s after he rehydrates, and he’ll dominate the electrician from England.
Shakur appeared smug through the face-off with Padley, and you can inform that he feels this man isn’t any menace to smash his path to his golden payday battle in opposition to Gervonta Davis. The Newark, New Jersey native Stevenson is being matched in opposition to weak opposition, and you may perceive why, given the mega-money he can get preventing Tank.
Placing Shakur in with somebody good can be unhealthy as a result of his glass palms and lack of energy would make him weak.
Padley, 29, was picked out because the substitute for Shakur after the unique opponent, Floyd Schofield, suffered an sickness this week. That is the second fighter on this card to come back down with an sickness since arriving in Saudi Arabia.
“I put a lot of work in this training camp. I’m coming in with the same mentality. I know this guy [Padley] is trying to take food off my table, and I’m not going to let him,” mentioned Shakur Stevenson throughout in the present day’s remaining press convention, speaking about his battle in opposition to substitute opponent Josh Padley on Saturday evening.
“I fought in the amateurs. It reminds me of the amateurs where you don’t know who you’re going to fight next. It’s okay. I’m going to feel him out, and then I’m going to take care of business,” Shakur mentioned. “There’s always a little bit of pressure, but I’m locked in, I’m focused and I’m coming to get him.”
