Floyd Schofield reacted today about reports that his promoter, Oscar De La Hoya, hadn’t signed off on a fight between him and WBC lightweight champion Shakur Stevenson for February twenty second.
Contract Update
Schofield (18-0, 12 KOs) posted that De La Hoya is “waiting for Shakur’s team to send the ultimate agreement.” He insists that his team “knows we’re going to stop Shakur.”
De La Hoya has been quiet about his fighter, 22-year-old Schofield, taking up Shakur (22-0, 10 KOs) on the huge Riyadh Season card next February. If Oscar does have misgivings concerning the inexperienced novice Schofield taking the fight against the three-division world champion Shakur, it’s comprehensible.
Schofield looked like a pure 100% novice in his last fight against Rene Tellez Giron on November 2nd. He got dropped and took many hard, punishing shots from a fighter Michel Rivera had dominated. De La Hoya would look incompetent if he allowed Schofield to take that fight. The backlash could be severe for Oscar, and his fighter, Schofield’s profession could be ruined.
Schofield’s stock would plummet from a one-sided loss to Stevenson, and it’s possible that he would never stand up again. He could be one in every of the various fighters who’ve lost to Shakur and would never be mentioned again by fans except to be criticized.
A Higher Option for Schofield
With Kid Austin’s #2 rating with the WBA, he can challenge champion Gervonta Davis for his belt, which might likely be an even bigger payday. That might be higher fight for Schofield to take than facing the defensive artist Shakur, and get outboxed in a fight that might a dull affair.
Assuming the Shakur-Schofield fight doesn’t occur, Shakur needs to offer Edwin De Los Santos a rematch so he can show fans that his poor performance against him in 2023 was really because of a hand injury.
As things at the moment are, fans don’t consider Shakur was injured within the De Los Santos fight. They felt the facility from him, and he took off running for the rest of the fight, which was heavily booed by the fans on the ringside on the T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas.
The Nevada crowd doesn’t like watching runners. That style might work in Newark, Latest Jersey, but not elsewhere. You entertain, and Shakur’s outdated, archaic hit-and-not-get style was poison for the fans on the T-Mobile.
Shakur mentioned this week that he desires to sign De Los Santos so he can promote him. Fans see this as a sneaky way for Shakur to have a ducking excuse. If Stevenson signs De Los Santos, he’ll have a everlasting excuse to inform fans why he’s not fighting him.
— Shakur Stevenson (@ShakurStevenson) November 28, 2024
