Comments Thread For: Eddie Hearn: Who is there for Tank but Shakur?

[Left Hook Louie]

Shakur beats everybody

Shakur beats everybody from Cambodia, maybe.

[ShoulderRoll]

Doing knuckle pushups and using a rice bucket to do gripping exercises could strengthen Shakur’s hands.

Assuming the surgery left everything good and he recovered appropriately from it.

[Oregonian]

Shakur is a bum

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Bruh! Come on! Shakur is a thousand times better than the last few opponents Tank has faced. Still way better than the next 4 opponents Tank will cherry-pick.

Why is Tank ducking Shakur?

[JakeTheBoxer]

Lomachenko seems to be retired, tank doesn`t want to fight anybody. A boring division, with some great potential matchups in the past, that never happened.

[jqSide]

I'm still not getting why Tank Davis won't fight Stevenson. PBC fans were celebrating with breaking news about Shakur leaving Arum. And they were assuming Shakur vs Tank will finally happen. What's that all about now in retrospect?

[LAchargers373]

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Bruh! Come on! Shakur is a thousand times better than the last few opponents Tank has faced. Still way better than the next 4 opponents Tank will cherry-pick.

Why is Tank ducking Shakur?

Shakur sucks he not ducking him foh lmao. Shakur is goofy as hell comes out to the lion king song but can’t punch his way out of a wet paper bag. He also is dirty I’ve seen him hit downed fighters a couple times trying to get the stoppage. Against Severely overmatched fighters. He does it to bums he should beat anyways like the electrician he just fought padley, he punched him while he was down. Shakur will get exposed when he fights the top dogs just like Haney did

[Oregonian]

Shakur sucks he not ducking him foh lmao. Shakur is goofy as hell comes out to the lion king song but can’t punch his way out of a wet paper bag. He also is dirty I’ve seen him hit downed fighters a couple times trying to get the stoppage. Against Severely overmatched fighters. He does it to bums he should beat anyways like the electrician he just fought padley, he punched him while he was down. Shakur will get exposed when he fights the top dogs just like Haney did

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All that aside, are Martin and Roach better opponents than Shakur for Tank?
Two, who else is a bigger name than Shakur at 135? Why can’t Tank fight Shakur if he is a bum? Tank is the top dog at 135 and Shakur has called him out multiple times and has even agreed that Tank is the A side.

This is not even a Boots-like scenario. Shakur is openly calling out Tank.

Padley was a last minute replacement opponent for Shakur after the other guy chickened out.

[PRvazquez]

lol at the lion king song

[LAchargers373]

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All that aside, are Martin and Roach better opponents than Shakur for Tank?
Two, who else is a bigger name than Shakur at 135? Why can’t Tank fight Shakur if he is a bum? Tank is the top dog at 135 and Shakur has called him out multiple times and has even agreed that Tank is the A side.

This is not even a Boots-like scenario. Shakur is openly calling out Tank.

Padley was a last minute replacement opponent for Shakur after the other guy chickened out.

shakur already had a chance to be undisputed. He turned down haneys offer he said he wanted a 50/50 split. Shakur Stevenson doesn’t bring tank a bigger payday than Martin or roach shakur Stevenson doesn’t make his promoters money. Tanks last 8 opponents speak for themselves. I wish shakur was better and more impressive I like watching great fights but i don’t see it with him. I used to think tank wasn’t that good but I came around. I also used to think shakur was gonna be really special..but he’s not.

[Oregonian]

shakur already had a chance to be undisputed. He turned down haneys offer he said he wanted a 50/50 split. Shakur Stevenson doesn’t bring tank a bigger payday than Martin or roach shakur Stevenson doesn’t make his promoters money. Tanks last 8 opponents speak for themselves. I wish shakur was better and more impressive I like watching great fights but i don’t see it with him. I used to think tank wasn’t that good but I came around. I also used to think shakur was gonna be really special..but he’s not.

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You didn’t answer my question. I never said Shakur brings Tank a bigger payday. Shakur is a bigger name than both Roach and Martin. Shakur is ranked 3rd at 135 after Tank and Lomachenko.
When you say Tank’s last 8 opponents speak for themselves, you’re saying guys like Hector Garcia, Isaac Cruz, Romero, Martin, Roach are all better than Shakur? Not a single one of them is ranked higher by any sanctioning body nor regarded to be better than Shakur by any boxing analyst.

Whatever transpired between Shakur and Haney has nothing to do with Tank but since you mention it, Haney lowballing Shakur is an old tactic we’ve seen many many times whenever someone is scared to fight. Shakur should have taken the offer but he refused. Clearly he was right, look at how much Haney’s purse bid was when he tried to fight last year. A paltry sum that clearly proves Haney has zero drawing power. He made career paydays against Ryan’s and Kamboso and he thinks he’s the sh�t. He is not.
The only reason Haney will make decent money in his next fight is because Turki is paying it.