[Boxing] Shakur Stevenson vs Oscar Valdez Title Unification Fight (April 30)

[bbc.reporter]

A lot of us definitely misjudge Shakur because he is young and lack of fight experience but surprisingly he is much fast. His hands is just too quick to throw not giving Oscar  the time react and a punch lands his face all the time.  The book makers are right about their odds in this fight. Shakur is pretty much a hybrid, I think he can beat Mayweather with such agility. He made Oscar look very rookie.

I very much agree. If you trusted the sportsbooks and made a bet on Shakur Stevenson to win with a decision which had the odds of 1.51 only minutes before the fight began, it would have been an easy money hehe. This appears to be a common occurrence in many fights in the sport of boxing. This is also certainly why I always lose money hehehe. Similar to Canelo versus Bivol, my money might lose again because it will be on Bivol.

[Jating]

A lot of us definitely misjudge Shakur because he is young and lack of fight experience but surprisingly he is much fast. His hands is just too quick to throw not giving Oscar  the time react and a punch lands his face all the time.  The book makers are right about their odds in this fight. Shakur is pretty much a hybrid, I think he can beat Mayweather with such agility. He made Oscar look very rookie.

I very much agree. If you trusted the sportsbooks and made a bet on Shakur Stevenson to win with a decision which had the odds of 1.51 only minutes before the fight began, it would have been an easy money hehe. This appears to be a common occurrence in many fights in the sport of boxing. This is also certainly why I always lose money hehehe. Similar to Canelo versus Bivol, my money might lose again because it will be on Bivol.

It went as low as 1.44 if I'm not mistaken, but I didn't bet on the fight because of the odds. Anyhow, yeah, if we trust those sports bookies, the problem is that we sometimes look for better odds and not just that kind of ML wherein it is not that attractive specially if you consider yourself a ordinary bettors. For whales though, that is good enough to pour thousands of dollars in order to get a decent returns.

[Distinctin]

A lot of us definitely misjudge Shakur because he is young and lack of fight experience but surprisingly he is much fast. His hands is just too quick to throw not giving Oscar  the time react and a punch lands his face all the time.  The book makers are right about their odds in this fight. Shakur is pretty much a hybrid, I think he can beat Mayweather with such agility. He made Oscar look very rookie.

I very much agree. If you trusted the sportsbooks and made a bet on Shakur Stevenson to win with a decision which had the odds of 1.51 only minutes before the fight began, it would have been an easy money hehe. This appears to be a common occurrence in many fights in the sport of boxing. This is also certainly why I always lose money hehehe. Similar to Canelo versus Bivol, my money might lose again because it will be on Bivol.

It went as low as 1.44 if I'm not mistaken, but I didn't bet on the fight because of the odds. Anyhow, yeah, if we trust those sports bookies, the problem is that we sometimes look for better odds and not just that kind of ML wherein it is not that attractive specially if you consider yourself a ordinary bettors. For whales though, that is good enough to pour thousands of dollars in order to get a decent returns.

It's natural for the most of us to look for some juicy odds to bet so that we can get a competitive returns as we are one of those ordinary bettors and not whales who can always bet several thousands in just 1 bet.

I'm shocked on how Shakur performed on the fight, no wonder he is listed as the favorite. He made Valdez a human punching bag while smiling as he didn't felt any punches at all.

[Russlenat]

^^ The bookies are correct, but it seems we got it wrong though as we are pre-dominantly Valdez, same as the crowd who watches the fight live.

Maybe majority of us here doesn't want to watch a defensive fight, but it's obvious that Shakur skills is superior and he has somewhat power because Valdez was hurt when he was just even grazed by Stevenson.

I would rate Stevenson among the top 5 pound for pound fighters but I find his style to be lackluster. Valdez doesn't have the best defense and can't take a punch very well. This was Stevenson's opportunity to win in spectacular fashion but he chose to go with a safety first approach. As great as Shakur is, I still think he has a long way to go before he is on the same level as Canelo, Crawford and Fury due to his unwillingness or inability to finish fighters.

He doesn't want to gamble because he has to propose to his girlfriend after the win lol.

Kidding aside, yup, that was a lackluster event for Shakur, he could have hurt the smaller Valdez if goes on the offensive mode but he chooses to be defensive even if he can take Oscar's punches.

Devin Haney is on Team Stevenson's radar per his post-fight interview and I think that would be a boring fight because Haney is also a counter-puncher and has a low KO rate.

So, let's hope that Kambasos will beat Haney so Shakur would again fight an aggressive fighter, a real aggressive fighter. Not fun to watch, but there are boxers nowadays that focus more on defense and calculated offense to win, despite the fact that they are boring to watch.

I hope but I'm afraid we will see the same outcome that we saw today. Haney is a good technical fighter as well, he is very smart in the ring and he can score that would convince the judge to give him the win. These defensive fighters are not expected to give toe to toe, unless their opponent is fast enough to catch them, but in the case of Kambasos, I don't think he is fast enough to catch Haney.

That will be the challenge for Kambosos to score on Haney's defensive maneuvers, might be fun and entertaining to see a both aggressive fighters share the same ring but yes, sometimes technical boxers like Haney has the most chances because just as I said, they are more on calculations so that their punches won't go to waste.

[bisdak40]

Shakur will be a name in the Lightweight division, that's for sure but I doubt that he will be a crowd drawer due to his defensive style which many boxing fans don't appreciate as they find it boring lol.

People will only watch him in a unification fight or against a prospect so selling outside the ring might be useful to him like what Mayweather did hehe.

Locking the thread now and as usual thanks for your comments and speculations about this unification and also congrats to those who won this on fight if there is, an odds of 1.5 via Decision is not too attractive for small-time bettors like us, and even to high rollers if it is on ML many could have pulled the trigger.