[Boxing]: Shakur Stevenson vs Shuichiro Yoshino April 8

[Baofeng]

Shakur Stevenson is back on his hometown, this time he will be fighting Japanese Shuichiro Yoshino in April 8 at Prudential Center In Newark.

This will serve as a title eliminator, winner of this fight will get the winner of Haney vs Loma.



https://twitter.com/IFLTV/status/1621943799952850945

No odds yet, but for sure Stevenson will be the favorite here against Yoshino. If I'm not mistaken, the Japanese is a WBO Asia Pacific and OPBF lightweight, so this guy for sure will give Shakur a good fight.

So just imagine if Shakur will win this one, either of the winner of Haney vs Loma against him will be a banger fight.

[stadus]

Shakur Stevenson is back on his hometown, this time he will be fighting Japanese Shuichiro Yoshino in April 8 at Prudential Center In Newark.

This will serve as a title eliminator, winner of this fight will get the winner of Haney vs Loma.



https://twitter.com/IFLTV/status/1621943799952850945

No odds yet, but for sure Stevenson will be the favorite here against Yoshino. If I'm not mistaken, the Japanese is a WBO Asia Pacific and OPBF lightweight, so this guy for sure will give Shakur a good fight.

So just imagine if Shakur will win this one, either of the winner of Haney vs Loma against him will be a banger fight.

It seems that this Shuichiro Yoshino is decent enough to face Shakur Stevenson in his debut, looking at the Japanese boxer's stats and recent fights, he is quite good but all of his fights are somehow irrelevant when it comes to the main ring because this Japanese boxer is more of a local boxer who keeps fighting inside his nation and his compatriots, just like Casimero's recent opponent.

Still, this will be a good test for Shakur for testing the new weight class. I'd say that this fight will highlight Shakur before he goes for a title attempt against the winner of Loma-Haney fight. If I'm not mistaken, Haney wanted Shakur to be his opponent because their camp is quite underestimating Loma already and they want a good fight.

[Jating]

^^ I would agree, decent to good opponent for Shakur but I doubt that he can upset Stevenson at this point. So I will have to put Shakur here winning maybe by a knockout or complete domination of the fight.

No offense to the Japanese fighter, he had the belt in Asia, beat Nakatani who gave Teo Lopez all he can handle and also fought Loma in his comeback fight. But that is not enough resume to beat the likes of Shakur right now.

[Kemarit]

It seems that this Shuichiro Yoshino is decent enough to face Shakur Stevenson in his debut, looking at the Japanese boxer's stats and recent fights, he is quite good but all of his fights are somehow irrelevant when it comes to the main ring because this Japanese boxer is more of a local boxer who keeps fighting inside his nation and his compatriots, just like Casimero's recent opponent.

Decent but I will say average when he face the likes of Shakur. And no surprise here, I mean Japanese fighters started their career home grown and then venture out of the country if they gain enough experience.

Still, this will be a good test for Shakur for testing the new weight class. I'd say that this fight will highlight Shakur before he goes for a title attempt against the winner of Loma-Haney fight. If I'm not mistaken, Haney wanted Shakur to be his opponent because their camp is quite underestimating Loma already and they want a good fight.

Shakur has been calling out a lot of names in the 135 lbs, that includes Haney and Loma and even Tank Davis.

He is willing to test this skills against this boxers and it will be a great fight to see him against those names in the future.

[robelneo]

Boxing fans here already know who Shakur Stevenson is and his reputation, there are already many threads about his fight here in the gambling section, but we are not aware of who Shuichiro Yoshino just found out that he is an undefeated fighter with a 75% knock out percentage checking his highlights on Youtube he mostly fought from his hometown, the one fighter he fought with good caliber is Nakatani,
I don't think he has a good chance against Shakur who is battle tested against the top fighters in his division, this will be a good tuneup fight for Stevenson because the real test will come against the Loma - Hany winner.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Im1BqeOiFUM

[Jawhead999]

No way for Shuichiro Yoshino can pull an upset against Shakur Stevenson, this fight will happen in US and this is the first time for Yoshino will fight in US. I think Stevenson will become heavy favorite with the odds around 1.10x. I think the odds for Stevenson win via KO would be quite high since the fight will high likely end via decision. We need to look for odds 9-12 rounds, if it's high, it's worth to bet.

[Baofeng]

No way for Shuichiro Yoshino can pull an upset against Shakur Stevenson, this fight will happen in US and this is the first time for Yoshino will fight in US. I think Stevenson will become heavy favorite with the odds around 1.10x. I think the odds for Stevenson win via KO would be quite high since the fight will high likely end via decision. We need to look for odds 9-12 rounds, if it's high, it's worth to bet.

And with that, I think Shakur is playing safe here in his first fight at 135 lbs. Although in paper it looks like Yoshino is really a good fighter, but he hasn't fought outside of Japan and me too,  I doubt that he can spoil Stevenson.

So far no odds yet as this is just announced, but we all agree that Stevenson will be the huge favorite here.

And the over/under rounds might be in the 7.5 range.

[Distinctin]

So just imagine if Shakur will win this one, either of the winner of Haney vs Loma against him will be a banger fight.

I believe Shakur will have no problem beating Yoshino, but the winner of Haney vs Loma, that's hard to predict though. Anyway, whoever wins that fight will surely be a great match-up for Stevenson, but hopefully, Loma will advance so the right will not be boring against Stevenson.

[yazher]

Another easy fight for Shakur and he really need to pass this one easy to have a chance for that next fight that would be the best fight to watch in the future. It might be an easy fight but he doesn't need to slack, instead, he needs to give some serious training and bring that until he will gonna fights Loma or Haney whoever wins that fight. Chances like this are few and it is as if he was given chance to train with a price before getting in the ring fighting a real fighter of his caliber.

[bittraffic]

Although Yoshino had defended his lightweight title for a long time, he doesn't look like he has the skills to maneuver Stevenson. Still, this is another round for Shakur to break at 135 after all Yoshino ranked in the top 5 on the WBC which is quite impressive.

The undercard list is some that is to look at like Damian Knyba and Jared Anderson who are both undefeated heavyweights. Seems easy win as they fight older athletes with more than 5 loss.

[coin-investor]

We don't need a poll on this one, it's an easy choice for us to pick Shakur, I've checked Shuichiro's highlights on Youtube, the guy can punch and has heavy hands but he did it to low-level fighters, Shakur is a fighter who takes a punch to deliver punches I don't know if Shuichiro can do this, I will not rule out an upset but it's unlikely because the stake is just too high, the winner will fight the winner of the Loma - Haney fight, and this is what Shakur is dreaming.

[electronicash]

shakur shows high skills every time and is very much exposed to us since he is more covered in media than this Japanese but this tale of the tape shows Yoshino has a large advantage in power over Stevenson, he has 75% knockout while Stevenson's 47%. 


from https://box.live/fights/stevenson-vs-yoshino/

[crzy]

Shakur will be the favorite here, its also a home court advantage so this will be a big challenge for Yoshino, both boxer are undefeated so this will be a big pressure to them. Shakur seems to be more fit and active though, if you’ll see his previous matches his aggressiveness is there and a deadly punches are there as well. Who ever wins here will face another big challenge on their next match either with Haney or Loma, so better for them to do their best on this match.

[Jawhead999]

shakur shows high skills every time and is very much exposed to us since he is more covered in media than this Japanese but this tale of the tape shows Yoshino has a large advantage in power over Stevenson, he has 75% knockout while Stevenson's 47%.  

I don't think it's a valid comparison because Yoshino never fight with a world champion boxer. In Stevenson's career the highest losses of his opponent only 4, while Yoshino have 7 times fights with boxers have losses more than 4, the highest is 16 losses.

I'm not agree if Yoshino has more power, but I tend to agree if Stevenson doesn't have a lot power. Stevenson is only fast and skillful, he ever make Oscar Valdez and Jeremia Nakathila fall, but it doesn't enough to stop them.

[TravelMug]

shakur shows high skills every time and is very much exposed to us since he is more covered in media than this Japanese but this tale of the tape shows Yoshino has a large advantage in power over Stevenson, he has 75% knockout while Stevenson's 47%.  

I don't think it's a valid comparison because Yoshino never fight with a world champion boxer. In Stevenson's career the highest losses of his opponent only 4, while Yoshino have 7 times fights with boxers have losses more than 4, the highest is 16 losses.

I'm not agree if Yoshino has more power, but I tend to agree if Stevenson doesn't have a lot power. Stevenson is only fast and skillful, he ever make Oscar Valdez and Jeremia Nakathila fall, but it doesn't enough to stop them.

It's probably just the numbers or statistics, but we all know that in boxing, it might not be the case specially if you are fighting the likes of Shakur and other defensive fighter, even like Haney, who has the 4 belts right now at 135 lbs.

So it could be deceiving for some and yeah, might not be a good numbers to compare. Stevenson might not have the power vs Yoshino, but definitely, he has more experience and the better between the two and going to be the favorite, likely Yoshino will be 4:1 underdog or higher I reckon.

[btc_angela]

Although Yoshino had defended his lightweight title for a long time, he doesn't look like he has the skills to maneuver Stevenson. Still, this is another round for Shakur to break at 135 after all Yoshino ranked in the top 5 on the WBC which is quite impressive.

It seems to be that Yoshino stayed in Japan fighting, so his exposure fighting Western style is very limited up to this point. While Stevenson has beat a good amount of champions, like Oscar Valdez and Herring and also Robson Conceiao.

Yoshino might try to stage a upset, but it's a long shot odds for him.

The undercard list is some that is to look at like Damian Knyba and Jared Anderson who are both undefeated heavyweights. Seems easy win as they fight older athletes with more than 5 loss.

We will see more on the undercard I guess, the good thing with this undercard is that sometimes we will find great boxers in there.

[stadus]

It seems that this Shuichiro Yoshino is decent enough to face Shakur Stevenson in his debut, looking at the Japanese boxer's stats and recent fights, he is quite good but all of his fights are somehow irrelevant when it comes to the main ring because this Japanese boxer is more of a local boxer who keeps fighting inside his nation and his compatriots, just like Casimero's recent opponent.

Decent but I will say average when he face the likes of Shakur. And no surprise here, I mean Japanese fighters started their career home grown and then venture out of the country if they gain enough experience.

That's why I said his experience are irrelevant because all his fight are just local and this Japanese doesn't have any experience nor heavy names on his rapsheet that is saying that he defeated them. Unlike Shakur, if it wasn't for his weight issue, I bet he can have that undisputed title on his past weight class.

Still, this will be a good test for Shakur for testing the new weight class. I'd say that this fight will highlight Shakur before he goes for a title attempt against the winner of Loma-Haney fight. If I'm not mistaken, Haney wanted Shakur to be his opponent because their camp is quite underestimating Loma already and they want a good fight.

Shakur has been calling out a lot of names in the 135 lbs, that includes Haney and Loma and even Tank Davis.

He is willing to test this skills against this boxers and it will be a great fight to see him against those names in the future.

And has been privileged to be called out by the undisputed champion, Devin Haney, because his camp wanted to test his skills rather than fighting Lomachenko on a mere money fight. But I guess, Bob Arum doesn't want that scenario for now and would like Shakur to test the water first before fighting a champion directly that belongs on the same stable.

[cryptomaniac_xxx]

Shakur will be the favorite here, its also a home court advantage so this will be a big challenge for Yoshino, both boxer are undefeated so this will be a big pressure to them. Shakur seems to be more fit and active though, if you’ll see his previous matches his aggressiveness is there and a deadly punches are there as well. Who ever wins here will face another big challenge on their next match either with Haney or Loma, so better for them to do their best on this match.

Not sure if there is pressure on Shakur, yeah, he needs to win this fight because it will be in hometown, but he will be facing a somewhat unknown boxer from Japan. I'm not saying that Yoshino is not going to win, but basing on the experience alone of Shakur and Yoshino not exposed, it might be very hard for him to win in US, in my opinion. Yes, whoever wins here, is assured to face the winner of the Loma vs Haney fight. So this is in the mind of Shakur since he wanted to break into the picture and become a champion in another weight class.

[Yatsan]

Shakur will be the favorite here, its also a home court advantage so this will be a big challenge for Yoshino, both boxer are undefeated so this will be a big pressure to them. Shakur seems to be more fit and active though, if you’ll see his previous matches his aggressiveness is there and a deadly punches are there as well. Who ever wins here will face another big challenge on their next match either with Haney or Loma, so better for them to do their best on this match.

Not sure if there is pressure on Shakur, yeah, he needs to win this fight because it will be in hometown, but he will be facing a somewhat unknown boxer from Japan. I'm not saying that Yoshino is not going to win, but basing on the experience alone of Shakur and Yoshino not exposed, it might be very hard for him to win in US, in my opinion. Yes, whoever wins here, is assured to face the winner of the Loma vs Haney fight. So this is in the mind of Shakur since he wanted to break into the picture and become a champion in another weight class.

Actually both are having 'noisy' names, there's just this barrier between local and international viewers. Yoshino quite had a good record for being undefeated in his local while Shakur is as well but with foreign fighters. This is where difficulty with bettors measure comes from. In general, the japanese boxer's statistics would be somehow set aside since international record is believed to be having a bigger weight not only in sports industry. But this is boxing we are talking about and anything could happen once both fighters starts in the middle of the square. Both has their own trainings and tactics to win over their opponent. So what's more likely to happen , and as we can see in this topic, Shuichiro is just the underdog in this match.

[aioc]

Shakur Stevenson is back on his hometown, this time he will be fighting Japanese Shuichiro Yoshino in April 8 at Prudential Center In Newark.

If he is fighting in his hometown I'm sure he will try to be impressive by giving a great performance and what could be a great performance and this is by knocking out his opponent.

No odds yet, but for sure Stevenson will be the favorite here against Yoshino. If I'm not mistaken, the Japanese is a WBO Asia Pacific and OPBF lightweight, so this guy for sure will give Shakur a good fight.

If he is holding two titles it could only mean that he is the best fighter in the Asian region in that division, but I still see Shakur  the better guy to come out as the winner here.

So just imagine if Shakur will win this one, either of the winner of Haney vs Loma against him will be a banger fight.

That's what's likely going to happen he deserves a shot he is also a top dog in that division, and he could give a good fight to the winner of the Loma - Haney.