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On a rare Thursday night, Shakur Stevenson takes on Edwin De Los Santos in the main event on ESPN/ESPN+ from Las Vegas, Nevada.
Shakur Stevenson weighed 133.8 lbs, and his opponent, knockout artist Edwin De Los Santos, came in at 134.4 pounds on Wednesday at their weigh-in for Thursday night’s fight for the vacant WBC lightweight title at the T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas, live on ESPN+
In the chief support weights, WBO super featherweight champion Emanuel Navarrete weighed 130 lbs, and challenger Robson Conceicao weighed 129.3 lbs.
Edwin De Los Santos expects Shakur Stevenson to be on his bike, trying to keep away from his power on Thursday night when they meet in the main event at the T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas.
Edwin De Los Santos says he views the former two-division world champion Shakur Stevenson as a good fighter, but he sees him as a runner, and he won’t be able to get away with that approach in their fight this Thursday night for the vacant WBC lightweight title.
Shakur Stevenson says believes Vasily Lomachenko will want to fight him, possibly next, after he captures the vacant WBC lightweight title in his headliner against KO artist Edwin De Los Santos next Thursday, November 16th, at the T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas.
Shakur Stevenson says former three-division world champion Vasily Lomachenko is “weak” for not accepting an offer from Top Rank to fight him next.
Shakur Stevenson can’t let go of the fact that the fight with undisputed lightweight champion Devin Haney failed to happen.
The 2016 Olympic silver medalist Stevenson (20-0, 10 KOs) is still talking about Haney as if he can’t get over it mentally, and he hasn’t come to terms with him blowing his chance.
Paulie Malignaggi feels that Shakur Stevenson will have pressure on him to make it entertaining in his fight for the vacant WBC lightweight title against Edwin De Los Santos (16-1, 14 KOs) on November 16th at the T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas.
Shakur Stevenson is sounding bitter about the lightweight division, calling it “overrated” after failing to get two consecutive massive fights against Frank Martin & Devin Haney over money issues.
Although Frank Martin recently hit back at criticism aimed at him for pulling out of a supposedly agreed November 16 fight with Shakur Stevenson – with Martin writing on social media, “I ain’t duck s**t” – Stevenson has continued laying into his would have been rival.