“I officially announced a professional boxing break,” Shakur Stevenson wrote on his personal Twitter page. The boxer said he would soon switch to training in the near future. The champion of 3 weight classes claimed that he wanted to help young athletes to pursue their dreams in the future.
Shakur Stevenson was born in 1997, a professional American boxing boxing. At the age of 17, he won the gold medal in the World Young Boxing Championship, the Young Olympic gold medal. By 2016, Stevenson was only 19 years old that reached the Rio Olympic Games final and won the Bantamweight weighing medal.
Less than 1 year after winning the GROUND Olympic gold medal, Shakur Stevenson stepped onto the professional boxing floor and quickly achieved success. Up to the time of declaration of retirement, this boxer possesses a record of 21 wins (10 no). He won the world championship in 3 different weight classes.
The biggest match in Shakur Stevenson career took place in April 2022. It was the time when he defeated Oscar Valdez, thereby unifying the WBO belt, WBC World and The Ring title in the Super Featherweight weight class. In the nearest time, Stevenson won the WBC belt of Lightweight.
The victory over Edwin de Los Santos and winning Shakur Stevenson's WBC Lightweight belt was controversial. De Los Santos is just a replacement of Frank Martin, who did not reach an agreement with Stevenson. But the Olympic runner -up did not show much to this opponent.
At the end of the 12 rounds, Stevenson surpassed De Los Santos by the point (115-113, 116-112, 116-112). This match is considered “boring” when calculated in the whole match, in each half, 2 boxers cannot punch the opponent 10 or more.