Shakur & Ennis Prove That The Boxing Community Cannot be satisfied.

Artem Harutyunyan is ranked #59 at lightweight by BoxRec, he's far from a top ten opponent. He was coming off a loss to Frank Martin, who Gervonta Davis just knocked out.

And David Avanesyan is ranked #23 at welterweight.

Stevenson needs to man up and face a REAL top ten lightweight, not no-hopers like Harutyunyan.

Likewise Ennis (who does look like a better fighter than Stevenson) should be fighting better opposition.

 

Ennis did get too much hate imo. He just had his first career layoff, a late replacement with a completely different style, and was a bit too eager to impress his hometown. All things considered, Ennis went in there and had a decent performance.

 

Proven at the highest level? Like there is no level above what he has achieved?

Dude has a TON more to prove lol.

 

He's beaten the two beat fighters at SFW back to back.

That puts him in the highest level.

Ennis is nowhere near that level of proven.

Shakur is now at LW and the top two fighters there are Loma and Tank so we'll see if he can repeat the feat again.

 

Yeah, his defense and no plan B was the problem.

 

The fighters Shakur has faced have been the best in the world. The fighters Ennis has faced haven't.

 

I think part of that is that he didn't challenge himself at WW before Spence. He basically threw his perhaps best 4-5 years down the drain fighting the shells of Khan and Brook and worse. Porter was ok, but at the end of his career.

 

artem lost to martin by a close decision

 

I hear you and agree Ennis hasn't matched his accomplishments. I was poking fun at you saying he has achieved the highest level in the sport, and he is far from that. He could get there, but there are plenty of levels above what he has done to date.

 

Ennis beat a 35 year old with a 4 week training camp and was hit fairly often it's nothing to write home about.

No one has ever denied Stevenson doesn't have skills but hes just plain boring and I wouldn't exactly call his last performance a "masterclass".

If you want to see masterclasses......

Toney vs Barkley

Whitaker vs Ramirez 2nd fight

Norris vs Brown 2nd fight

Mayweather vs Corrales

RJJ vs Hall

 

He just impressively dominated and knocked out BoxRec #9 ranked Shuichiro Yoshino