Shakur Stevenson vs. Shuichiro Yoshino | ESPN - April 8, 2023

[Ruthless-RKO]

Date: Saturday April 8, 2023
Location: Prudential Center - Newark, NJ
TV/Stream: ESPN

Start Times
ESPN+: 6 pm ET | 3 pm PT | 11 pm GMT (Preliminary Card)
ESPN: 10 pm ET | 7 pm PT | 3 am GMT (Main Card)

Promoted by: Top Rank Inc.

Main card

12 Round WBC Lightweight Title Eliminator Bout
Shakur Stevenson vs. Shuichiro Yoshino

10 round Heavyweight Bout
Jared Anderson vs. George Arias

10 Round Lightweight Bout
Keyshawn Davis vs. Anthony Yigit

Preliminary card

8 Round Heavyweight Bout
Damian Knyba vs. Curtis Harper

6 Round Featherweight Bout
Bruce Carrington vs. Brandon Chambers

6 Round Super Lightweight Bout
Kelvin Davis vs. Nelson Morales

4 Round Super Lightweight Bout
Antoine Cobb vs. Jaylan Phillips

8 Round Middleweight Bout
Troy Isley vs. Roy Barringer

[oogiebe]

Came in on Damian Knyba vs. Curtis Harper.
Knyba just whacked Harper, but he's also gassing a bit.

Harper will fall eventually. Just surprised he stayed in the ring at the opening bell.

[oogiebe]

Questionable stoppage by the ref. Knyba is a future ko victim.

[oogiebe]

Keyshawn Davis vs. Anthony Yigit up next ring walks now.

[oogiebe]

Davis is so good. what a great looking prospect. Can't wait for a step up fight where he'll get tested.

[Sweet Dick Willie]

Hows my man Yigit doing?

[oogiebe]

Hows my man Yigit doing?

Not so good. 3-1 landing advantage for Davis. Levels.

[oogiebe]

4-0 Davis. Best moment for Yigit was a clash of heads in rd 3.

[oogiebe]

5-0. Yigit just taking a beating to the body and head. He's hardly throwing punches at this point. Dude is game as fuk though

[oogiebe]

Yigit came out looking better but then Davis found a home for his left and right uppercut.

6-0 Davis.

[oogiebe]

Yigit's mouth is doing more work than his fists. Trying to get Davis into a brawl. not happening. Davis in full control

7-0 Davis

[oogiebe]

Another round of beatings by Davis. Culminated with a HUGE body shot to drop Yigit at the bell,.

8-0 Davis.

[oogiebe]

GREAT stoppage by the ref at the beginning of round 8. Obvious that Tigit was just continuing to take a beating and after a combination, the Ref stepped in and stop it.

[oogiebe]

If you watch just the end, you'd think it was a premature stoppage, but if you watched the whole fight you understand.

[oogiebe]

Anderson vs Arias up next. (I feel so alone)

[gregregegg]

Anderson vs Arias up next. (I feel so alone)

I’ll be tuning in. I’m dazn card on tv but who’ll stream top rank card on laptop.

[margaret thatcher]

jah looking like da mak daddy entering with those shades

now time for an impressive win so we can vote him in

[margaret thatcher]

not gonna lie, jah gives me hung like a horse vibes

[margaret thatcher]

arias is scared sh!tless

[oogiebe]

Methodical first round by Anderson. Jabbing up and down. Cutting off the ring fairly well. Arias lots of movement infrequent punching.

1-0 Anderson

[gregregegg]

Arius looks pretty negative. considering he has weak power i hope this isnt his gameplan. Needs to at least make the young buck uncomforable at times.

[margaret thatcher]

arias thinks he's a track star now

[margaret thatcher]

jah's jab looking good

[oogiebe]

This is gonna be a beatdown.

2-0 Anderson

Arias has no clue what to in there.

[margaret thatcher]

arias a bit more active in round 2 , but already looking mopey and sorry for himself