Floyd Schofield had an amusing reaction when Shakur Stevenson told the media last weekend that he hopes he doesn't back out of their fight on February 22 in Riyadh. “Kid Austin” Schofield (18-0, 12 KOs) says Shakur (22-0, 10 KOs) is not the type of threat that would make him want to quit.
Schofield says that he suffers from “passport” problems, which prevented him from traveling to London to participate in the Turki Al Sheikh Ring Award. Otherwise, he would have been there to watch and conduct interviews, just like many other fighters who received their invitations.
Shakur with one hand?
The challenger, Schofield, doesn't view Shakur, the WBC lightweight champion, as a dangerous fighter because he's not a boxer, and he's right. Newark, New Jersey native Shakur is 100% pure boxer Who backs down when under pressure and shows no willingness to stand in the pocket if his opponents have power. Stevenson is perhaps the most timid champion in the sport and shows no desire to fight.
In Stevenson's last fight vs Artem HarutyunyanHe stuck to his guns most of the time as the 34-year-old was unable to bat. But even in that fight, Shakur was running. For this reason, the fans began to come out in large numbers, heading towards the exits with the eighth round. This was in Newark, Shakur's hometown, at the Prudential Center.
Glass hand
Shakur's surgically repaired right hand is the real question mark in this fight because, in last week's video, he had yet to use it while hitting gloves with one of his trainers. I don't know Shakur's chances in this fight if that The glass hand collapses. Schofield is too strong and throws too many punches for a one-armed Core to survive.
With just 38 days to go before the February 22 card, it's not a good sign that Stevenson still isn't using that hand. The problem will not go away in five weeks. If a person undergoes hand surgery, recovery will take more than five weeks.
“I thought why? He doesn't bring anything to the table to take a person out of a fight. But that's Shakur. He'll always have something smart to say. Hopefully he keeps the same energy on February 22nd, but nobody backs down from a fight,” Floyd Schofield said. Mill City BoxingIn response to Shakur Stevenson saying he hopes he doesn't back out of the fight after not showing up at the Ring Awards in London last Saturday.
“That's what he's supposed to say. 'If you feel the same way about him,'” Schofield said, speaking in a video interview in which Shakur says, “Deep down, he (Kid Austin) knows he can't beat me.”
“He's not a threat to me. I can't attack him for saying what he's supposed to, but I wouldn't be in the fight if I didn't feel that way,” Schofield said of another video of Shakur in which he says he's “worried that he (Floyd) might not show up.” “It must be a self-projection because I'm here, I'm training and I'm getting sparring.”
