Shakur Stevenson will likely watch from the sidelines as Gervonta Davis and Vasiliy Lomachenko fight, despite chasing both for some time now.
The three men all hold belts at 135 just now and, following ‘Tank’s destructive stoppage of Frank Martin to retain his WBA belt, fans are expecting a unification.
It’s reported that his team are targetting Lomachenko and the IBF rather than Shakur’s WBC belt.
Speaking on FightHype, the three-weight world champ from Newark said he ‘doesn’t respect’ the fact that his two fellow lightweight champions are set to enter talks.
“Honestly I don’t respect it. Just because these dudes been at the same weight class for so long and now that I’m on the horizon of getting a Lomachenko fight everybody wants to talk about Tank and Loma … I feel like Lomachenko got like one or two fights left in his career probably. I feel like they’re taking the fight now cause the time is now.”
“It’s pretty obvious that I’m being avoided. I’m the guy that nobody wants to fight, with all due respect to all other fighters. It’s been too many people that turned down the fight with me. I feel like biased fans and biased people are giving these people a pass cause they don’t like me.”
As for his verdict on the fight, he still believes that Lomachenko, 36, can put up a good fight against the younger man Davis who has the momentum.
“I still think with Lomachenko’s skills and stuff it will be a good fight. I don’t think Lomachenko is a pushover even though he is older. With the experience he’s got, the knowledge, all it’s going to boil down to is does Lomachenko have punch resistance to what Tank is throwing.”
Stevenson returns to the ring in his home city on July 6 against Artem Harutyunyan.
