By: Sean Crose
The 19-0 Shakur Stevenson invaded the light-weight division on Saturday night time in entrance of a hometown crowd at Newark, New Jersey’s Prudential Center. His opponent within the scheduled 12 spherical eliminator for the WBC title was the 16-0 Shuichiro Yoshino. Stevenson made certain to take care of vary within the first, which meant he dictated the tempo of the spherical. Yoshino utilized stress within the second and was rewarded by being despatched to the mat by a stable Stevenson left. Yoshino was capable of beat the depend and battle on.
Stevenson thudded his man with energy pictures within the third. It seemed to be solely a matter of time. A left-right mixture put Yoshino down once more within the fourth. Once once more, Yoshino gamely acquired to his toes. And to his credit score, Yoshino was capable of battle his method via the fifth. A lesser man would have already got been completed by that time. By the sixth, the referee had seen sufficient. Yoshino was nonetheless on his toes, however he was taking severe punishment. The battle was correctly stopped, with Stevenson having made a superb debut at light-weight.
