Shakur Stevenson Vs. Jamel Herring Likely For Mid November

By: Hans Themistode

Regardless of being good pals, Shakur Stevenson continued to scream and shout for his obligatory title shot towards WBO tremendous featherweight titlist, Jamel Herring. Now, after profitable the WBO interim strap towards Jeremia Nakathila on June twelfth, earlier this yr, he’ll get his want.

As first reported by Dan Rafael, previously with ESPN, promoter Bob Arum has a set date of November thirteenth for the pair to face off. No web site has been confirmed as but however all indicators level to their conflict going down subsequent.

Information of his title shot going down quickly, will convey a right away smirk to the face of Stevenson. Since profitable silver on the 2016 Olympic Video games, the New Jersey native has been spectacular as a professional. In solely his thirteenth skilled combat, Stevenson captured the WBO featherweight title with a one-sided route over Joet Gonzalez. He was unable to defend his newly received belt, nonetheless, as he opted to maneuver up in weight.

Each Herring and Stevenson have shared quite a few coaching camp classes and labored carefully with each other. Nonetheless although, whereas Stevenson has nice reverence for Herring as a fighter, his mindset has all the time been “enterprise is enterprise.”

As for Herring, the previous Marine hoped to safe a unification conflict with WBC titlist, Oscar Valdez. The 35-year-old has reeled off seven straight wins since his defeat by the hands of Ladarius Miller in 2017.

Just lately, Herring picked up the most important of his profession in his final ring outing. On April third, earlier this yr, Herring took on former a number of division champion, Carl Frampton. Regardless of being the underdog, Herring dominated Frampton, dropping him twice earlier than ending him off within the sixth spherical and finally sending him into retirement.