Category Archives: Welterweights

Shakur Stevenson by “Unanimous” Decision over Teofimo Lopez

Recent Fights, Tom Donelson, Welterweights

By Tom Donelson (BWAA) Member Boxing Writers Association of America

Shakur Stevenson easily dominate Teofimo Lopez as he showed great boxing skills. This was a fight in which Stevenson connected on twice as any punches, and his accuracy was 44 percent versus Lopez connect rate of 15 percent. For the most part this was an easy fight to score as He landed more punches in every round but one. You could have scored 120-108 but the judges had it 119-109 giving Lopez only the 8th round.

In the eleventh round he showed this fight in microscopic as he started the round with quartet of hard punches and Lopez moved forward quickly, only to be hit with an accurate hook. Stevenson then landed two right hands followed by left hook. Lopez tried to get inside, but a stiff jab stop his momentum and as the round ended, Stevenson nails Lopez as time ran np down.

Lopez landed 105 jabs and this allowed him to control the real estate between the two, and he connected on half of his power shots. Lopez averaged only 6 punches a round connected which was slightly below Stevenson allowed in his previous 12 rounds.

Stevenson has now moved up the elite levels of the boxing world as he once the outside looking in of the four young kings, Devin Haney, Ryan Garcia, Gervonta Davis, and Teofimo Lopez but now he may be he new king as he now has four world championship in four different weight divisions.

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Usyk Defeats Dubois in Rematch Fight … Manny Pacquiao vs. Barros – Majority Draw … Fundora Stops Tszyu in Rematch Fight

Heavyweights, Recent Fights, Tom Donelson, Welterweights

By Tom Donelson (BWAA) Member Boxing Writers Association of America

Oleksandr Usyk defended his heavyweight title against Daniel Dubois who was granted the IBF title when he defeated Anthony Joshua but then the only reason the IBF granted the winner of the Joshua and Dubois the title is that they took the title away from Usyk when he fought Fury in a rematch. Sanctioning bodies are like that. 

Ukrainian became the first boxer who have won the undisputed championship for a third time, once a cruiserweight and twice as Heavyweight.  In their first fight it had some controversy as Dubois sent Usyk down on what was called a low blow. Usyk stopped Dubois in the ninth but in his fight, Usyk showed his boxing skills and speed.  Even at 38, he was still the faster fighter against his 27-year challenger.

CompuBox Punch Stats

PunchesUsykDubois
Total landed5735
Total thrown153179
Percent37.3%19.6%
Jabs landed2111
Jabs thrown75104
Percent28%10.6%
Power landed3624
Power thrown7875
Percent46.2%32%
   

It is time to talk about Usyk place in boxing history.  In a century in which we saw the end of the Lennox Lewis era part of 1990’s era of great heavyweight.    The Klitschko brothers dominated the division after Lewis defeated Vitali in 2003  before retiring until 2015 when Tyson Fury defeated Wladmir Klitschko.  Usyk has defeated Fury twice, Joshua twice and Dubois twice.  Before that he was the best cruiserweight, a unified champion in two divisions.  Dubois is a good fighter having to defeated Joshua easily in their championship bout but in this bout, Usyk dominated.

Usyk combined power with boxing skills, but his strength is tactical skills combined with his speed and footwork.  He has beaten the best of the two divisions.   His victory over Fury is the stuff of legends as he defeated a bigger stronger fighter.  Usyk is one of the best pound for pound today, and he is HOF boxer even now. 

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