Esteemed trainer Robert Garcia has offered his adept sentiment connected a imaginable clash betwixt Shakur Stevenson and Devin Haney, who person verbally agreed to conscionable astatine a catchweight of 144lbs.
The 2 American stars are some rumoured to beryllium joining Dana White’s Zuffa Boxing, seemingly with a presumption to collide nether the promotional banner.
While thing is confirmed, the brace person been going back-and-forth connected societal media, with Haney verbally agreeing to question 3lbs beneath his preferred warring weight.
‘The Dream’ claimed his WBO welterweight rubric successful November, becoming a three-division satellite champion by dethroning and unanimously outpointing Brian Norman Jr.
It was confirmed by the WBO earlier this week, however, that Haney would beryllium stripped of his loop if helium ends up facing Stevenson astatine a 144lb catchweight due to the fact that the 27-year-old has been ordered to look mandatory challenger Keyshawn Davis.
If they bash yet quadrate disconnected astatine 144lbs, though, apical trainer Garcia has told Fight Hub TV that helium would favour the WBO super-lightweight champion by the slightest of margins.
“Honestly, I deliberation it’s a large matchup for both. They some combat precise astute – they don’t marque [many] mistakes.
“The archetypal 1 that makes a mistake, the different 1 is going to instrumentality vantage of it. It’s a pugnacious fight. By a precise flimsy difference, I astir apt deliberation Shakur [would win]. He’s excessively smart.
“What I similar astir Haney is that he’s the 1 consenting to instrumentality that chance. He’d beryllium consenting to instrumentality that risk, and that’s wherever I deliberation Shakur takes vantage [of his mistake].”
Stevenson became a four-division satellite champion by dethroning Teofimo Lopez successful January, claiming a wide unanimous determination triumph successful his archetypal outing astatine 140lbs.
The 28-year-old is truthful reluctant to look Haney astatine 147lbs, wherever his hostile would boast a important size advantage.
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