WBC super featherweight champion Oscar Valdez (30-0, 23 KOs) and WBO super featherweight champion Shakur Stevenson (17-0, 9 KOs) are reportedly in advanced negotiations for a unification fight on April 30 in Las Vegas.
The three-time champion Jorge Linares (47-6, 29 KOs) will face Zaur Abdullaev (14-1, 8 KOs) on February 22 in a match for the WBC silver lightweight Silver title and WBC eliminator at the RCC Boxing Academy in Ekaterinburg, Russia.
We have a date and a site for Triad Combat II headlined by Kubrat Pulev vs. Junior Dos Santos and Chad Dawson vs. Vitor Belfort. The event takes place on February 26 at the Toyota Center in Houston, Texas. The standalone PPV price is $29.99, but it also comes with your monthly $2.99 TrillerVerzPass subscription.
Probellum’s latest signing is heavyweight Tsotne Rogava (1-0, 1 KO).
Stevenson easily
Valdez wins by KO!!! Viva México Cabronessss
He’s going to chase down that track star, corner him and fuck him up.
Stevenson is a smart tricky fighter but he has a habit of stinking out the arena and putting me to sleep. I hope Oscar can cut the ring off and pull this one out but I have a feeling Stevenson will pile enough points to win another cautious decision. Darin please don’t take this wrong cause I know you love Stevenson.
Don’t love Stevenson at all. I find him boring. Just he will be a difficult puzzle to solve for any fighter. Unless he walks into one and he doesn’t handle it well.
Stevenson will clean up all the divisions
Mostly good news for boxing, except for another $30 Pay-Per-Screw (PPS) event.
WBC silver lightweight Silver title? They can actually get someone to pay a sanctioning fee for this? If it’s this easy everyone should start their own organization. Wait-they already have.
that double use of ‘silver’ is hilarious haha
Interesting how De La Hoya never ever mentioned Belfort’s name ever again after Oscar chickened out of the fight lol
So far, I favor Stevenson by a close UD.
Although there are fans who find Stevenson’s style as “boring,” Stevenson presents big problems for opponents; and opponents (as professionals) must find methods to overcome Stevenson’s “boring style.” Stevenson has his ways/strengths for winning, and opponents must find their own ways/strengths for defeating Stevenson. If Stevenson’s “boring style” keeps him undefeated, fans will ALWAYS watch Stevenson fight (for a variety of fair/unfair reasons).
Valdez will need to use his jab as a way to get inside for great body punching discomfort to Stevenson. Valdez must also keep up his punch volume to make Stevenson hesitate and overthink, with a limited punch output.
Valdez will need to catch the judges’ eyes with good punch volume and outstanding pressure. If Valdez attempts to outbox Stevenson from the outside, he will lose by a wide UD.
At the end of the fight, I have a strange feeling emotions and/or comments will become extremely intense among boxing fans (for a variety of fair/unfair reasons). We will see.
Boring is an overused term sometimes but it’s because Stevenson’s fights are devoid of drama due to his ability. Some people may like one sided fights but I don’t enjoy fights where the drama ends by the 3rd round and a guy gets drubbed 12-0 or 11-1 in rounds. It’s the Terence Crawford problem. Excellent fighters almost too good sometimes.
Valdez will need to be on the special mexican beef diet to have any chance of winning
Time and Eddy Reynoso have changed Oscar Valdez from a predictable and face first fighter, to a more versatile and defensive opponent that carries a very decent punching power. Shakur is a beutiful pure boxer that is entering his primes, struggling sometimes to satisfy the audience, that by booing sometimes is telling him boring, but not such ting is true if you appreciate boxing for the cerebral angle. Shakur Stevenson vs Oscar Valdez is a dream matchup that will be win by the fresher and better boxer, in this case Shakur, but it won’t be easy, much less boring for sure, expect a great and intense affair instead .
oh yeah, he looked unbeatable in his last fight once he got popped
Valdez beat Berchelt because berchelt came to him. Stevenson isn’t going to come to him. It’s going to be a tough one for Valdez. But I vowed I wouldn’t doubt him again after he shut me up against berchelt, so we’ll see…
Stevenson is boring, but Usyk is the greatest boxer to ever do it to some of y’all. Stevenson is no Berchelt. That athleticism is nothing to sneeze at and Stevenson is just better than Valdez in every way. Stevenson all day. I’d like to see Stevenson against Loma.
Valdez had all he could handle with boring Conceição and boring Stevenson is Conceição times 100.
When this fight happen Shakur will chop Oscar down in the late rounds.
this could be a good fight hope its on espn