Better fighter: Shakur Stevenson or Bam Rodriguez

bam is a better all round fighter. more complete technically. his footwork amd offense is more effective than both. he is just fighting at a higher level. tape and stats will verify that fact.

 

https://www.*******.com/articles/ju...-rodriguez-prior-to-finalizing-martinez-fight

 

“Nakatani’s team was okay with the fight,” explained Robert Garcia, Rodriguez’s career-long manager and trainer. “I have a text message from Mr. Honda telling me that [Teiken] did not want the fight. I do not want to say that Nakatani rejected the fight. I talked to his team, his trainer Rudy Hernandez - we’re very good friends.


“So, I don’t want to say that Nakatani rejected the fight. I think it was more Mr. Honda didn’t want the fight between his two fighters, same with “Chocolatito” Gonzalez and Bam as far as his two fighters facing each other.”

 

Excitement has nothing to do with who's better troll.

 

Would be some fight

Wonder how Nakatani deals with someone like Bams footwork and on the inside

 

The stats actually show that Shakur is the better fighter. Has a lower opponent connect to punch accuracy percentage than Bam does.
PLUS MINUS +/-

• SHAKUR STEVENSON: 20.2
• JESSE RODRIGUEZ: 18.6

https://beta.compuboxdata.com/

 

i stand corrected. i focused too much on one stat. bams +/- rating results in stoppages. none of his last 4 opponents have finished the race, while 3 of shakurs last 4 have. thats why i say he is more effective, and more complete technically. shakur surface punches, which ive noted for years, while bam can generate power from any position. that takes knowledge and technique, natural or learned, but its part of being complete.
i am curious to see how bams fight vs rungvisai compares to shakurs overall stats. thats the only fight i can think of where bam maintained a defensive approach for a significant amount of time.
another thing i should note, since the popular narrative is bull****, is that bam is already fighting guys bigger than him, while shakur is not small for his division. that makes a difference in difficulty of task.

 

Yep. Both up against guys people thought would be a real test, and, yeah, they passed those tests with flying colors.

Bam does have it a bit easier than Shakur, you have to admit. Shakur has to grind out wins. Bam's got the power to one-shot opponents if he catches them right. Even though Puma lasted 10 rounds (credit to him being tough AF), Bam made that fight a lot easier for himself with how badly he broke Puma's nose early on. Shakur doesn't have the power to do that.

If I could graft Bam's offense onto Shakur's defense... yikes.

 

I’m genuienly starting to feel that Bam is the future p4p king once Usyk and Bud retire.

Maybe It’s the heat of the moment. The feeling might change after Shakur faces Lopez.

 

Both are manufactured weight bullies who have yet to face real adversity. I don't think either of them has fought anybody younger or around the same age as them also both have been massive favorites going into all their fights. Both look highly skilled Bam is braver and more fan friendly, Shakur is a safety first runner. Time will tell and hopefully they both step up the level of competition in their next fight.