Floyd Schofield told Shakur Stevenson media last weekend that he hopes he doesn't back out of their February 22nd fight in Riyadh. 'Kid Austin' Schofield (18-0, 12 KOs) says Shakur (22-0, 10 KOs) isn't a threat he'll want to take down.

Schofield said he had “passport” issues, which prevented him from traveling to London to attend Turki Al-Sheikh's Ring Awards. Otherwise, he could meet and be interviewed there, just as many other fighters have received their invitations.

One-handed Shakur?

The challenger, Schofield, doesn't see WBC lightweight champion Shakur as some dangerous fighter because he's not a puncher, and he's right. Shakur A. is a resident of Newark, New Jersey Pure 100% Boxer One who retreats under pressure and shows no desire to stand in the pocket when his opponents have power. Stevenson is perhaps the most timid champion in the sport and shows no desire to fight.

In the last fight against Stevenson Artem HarutunyanHe held his ground most of the time as the 34-year-old couldn't land a punch. But Shakur was running in that fight too. That's why fans started leaving in droves, leading to an exit by the eighth round. It was in Shakur's hometown of Newark at the Prudential Center.

glass hand

Shakur's surgically repaired right hand is the real question mark in this fight because, in a video last week, he still hasn't used it while hitting mitts with one of his coaches. I don't know if Shakur has a chance in this fight Glass hand shatters. Schofield is too strong and throws too many punches for the one-armed Kur to survive.

Just 38 days before the Feb. 22 card, it's not a good sign that Stevenson still isn't using that hand. A problem won't go away in five weeks. If someone has hand surgery, recovery takes more than five weeks.

“What did I think for? He doesn't bring anything to the table to get a guy back from a fight. But that's Shakur. He's always got something smart to say. Hopefully, he'll keep that same energy going on February 22nd, but nobody's backing down from a fight.” ” said Floyd Schofield Millcity BoxingShakur responded to Stevenson by saying that he hoped he would not return from the fight after his no-show at the Ring Awards in London last Saturday.

“That's what he had to say. If he feels the same way,” Schofield said, speaking in a video interview in which Shakur says, 'Deep down, he (Kid Austin) knows he can't beat me.'

“He is no threat to me. I can't knock him for what he says, but if I didn't feel that way I wouldn't have done the fight. He must be self-projecting because I'm here, I'm training and doing my sparring,” Schofield said of another video of Shakur that he's worried he (Floyd) might not show.