Let’s start with the fight in the ring first.
Shakur Stevenson will be a hard man to beat for many years to come. He has enough offense and power to beat you down, but he is also blessed with such sound defense you can never catch him cleanly.
You could see the frustration building round by round from Oscar Valdez. Stevenson was in total control of the ring from round 1 and put on a boxing clinic.
Here is what the fighters had to say after the fight.
Stevenson said, “This victory means everything. I told ya’ll what I was going to do. I said I’m gonna beat Valdez, Canelo and Eddy Reynoso, so that was my game plan, beat the whole team and I feel good about it. Much respect to them, but that was my game plan.
“I want to collect all the belts at 130 and become undisputed. I deserve to be a superstar, so that’s what I gotta do.”
“He did what he had to do to win the fight,” Valdez said. “He’s a great fighter. His speed is there. Power is there. He was just he better fighter tonight. Overall, a great fighter.”
Stevenson will now move to bigger and better things while Valdez will go back to the drawing board. There is no shame in losing. Valdez tried his best and never gave up, but he couldn’t solve Stevenson’s riddle.
After the fight, things got a little crazy. From various reports, a large portion of Shakur Stevenson’s family, including his mother, tried to get into the post-fight press conference without the proper credentials and a full-out brawl ensued with security.
It doesn’t look like anyone was seriously hurt, but it was an ugly scene and not a good look from the security at the MGM.
Flip the pages for video from the brawl.
