Shakur Stevenson and Gervonta ‘Tank’ Davis is a fight that has been years in the making.
Both fighters are currently undefeated and after Vasily Lomachenko backed out of talks with Gervonta ‘Tank Davis’, the first name everyone wanted to replace the Ukrainian was Shakur Stevenson.
Unfortunately for boxing fans, it didn’t come to fruition but now there is renewed optimism and hope that Stevenson vs ‘Tank’ will finally happen in 2025.
Stevenson is one of those backing the calls for the lightweight unification fight, stating it is the only option.
Stevenson is ready to take on Davis
One other major stumbling block for this all-American affair is that Turki Alalshikh, the chairman of entertainment in Saudi Arabia and the man behind some of the biggest boxing events in recent years, has ordered Stevenson to fight William Zepeda on a card that could also feature Terence Crawford vs. Vergil Ortiz Jr.
The proposed test could prove to be a major obstacle for the 28-year-old however despite potentially being forced to wait, the New Jersey-born star says he will take the challenge as soon as Davis calls for it.
Speaking to Andre Ward on All the Smoke Fight, he said: “Whenever. I think I’m ready for it, and he’s ready for it. We’re both in our primes. It could happen next. It could happen next year. Whenever he say ‘Let’s fight,’ that’s when it’s going to happen.
“I know it’s going to happen. I’m the best, and he’s the best. So when you got two guys that are the best, how can you not fight? The only way you cannot fight is if one of the guys isn’t like that, and somebody goes off to lose, or somebody takes an L.”
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Stevenson finds Davis situation ‘hard to talk about’
Both fighters have exchanged plenty of verbal punches with each other in recent times and Stevenson believes that when the two do finally meet, there will be more than just winning the fight on the line.
“It’s kind of bigger than boxing, I guess you could say, because of the history and everything that went on,” Stevenson stated.
“It’s hard to even speak on it just because of the fact that we gotta fight.”
Despite the obvious tension, the New Jersey-born fighter did still reserve some praise for ‘Tank’.
He continued: “He’s strategic, he’s setting guys up. He’s been boxing since a little kid just like I’ve been boxing since a little kid and you can tell with the experience.
“Even with his last fight with Frank Martin, you could see Frank Martin was more so an amateur. Like the experience he got is not on the level of like ‘Tank’ and he just took off with experience. He let him waste his energy, gassed him out and then Round 8, it’s time to go home.”