{"id":248744,"date":"2025-07-08T19:08:10","date_gmt":"2025-07-08T19:08:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/248744\/"},"modified":"2025-07-08T19:08:10","modified_gmt":"2025-07-08T19:08:10","slug":"turki-alalshikh-has-surprise-for-shakur-stevenson-against-william-zepeda-a-ring-that-shrinks-as-the-fight-goes-on","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/248744\/","title":{"rendered":"Turki Alalshikh has \u2018surprise\u2019 for Shakur Stevenson against William Zepeda \u2014 \u2018A ring that shrinks as the fight goes on\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"

WBC lightweight champion Shakur Stevenson puts his title on the line against unbeaten challenger William Zepeda as part of the Ring Magazine 3 boxing card<\/a> this Sat. night (July 12, 2025) on DAZN<\/a> (order here<\/a>) at Louis Armstrong Stadium in Queens, New York. <\/p>\n

Ahead of their 12-round showdown, Saudi\u2019s \u201csweet science\u201d promoter Turki Alalshikh doubled down on his Tom and Jerry decree<\/a>, coming up with a solution to keep both fighters from dancing their way to another boring decision (it happens<\/a>).<\/p>\n

\u201cWe have a surprise for Shakur Stevenson on Saturday, a ring that shrinks as the fight goes on,\u201d Alalshikh wrote on Twitter. \u201cShakur says he is ready to deliver a beatdown of William Zepeda, and I know the Mexican is prepared for the challenge of the biggest fight of his life.\u201d<\/p>\n

Fortunately for Stevenson, Turki doesn\u2019t have the budget or the technology to make that dream a reality. In addition, sanctioned bouts have to meet certain criteria and let\u2019s face it, it\u2019s already hard enough to get boxers to agree on simple stuff like glove size<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u201cThese people think I can\u2019t crack, these people think all I do is run,\u201d Stevenson told DAZN<\/a>. \u201cThat\u2019s the wrong logic of me. I\u2019m a fighter at the end of the day. We get in there and I got to fight, I\u2019m going to fight and I\u2019m not coming there to lose. I\u2019m not into that. William Zepeda is not a guy who\u2019s just going to let you move all around the ring and not cut off the ring. He\u2019s not a guy that\u2019s going to allow you to not engage in the fight. So I\u2019m not here to lose, I\u2019m here to win.\u201d<\/p>\n

For more boxing news and notes click here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"WBC lightweight champion Shakur Stevenson puts his title on the line against unbeaten challenger William Zepeda as part…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":248745,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[4108],"tags":[14040,9988,96171,27616,1935,18648,10175,3576,163,51543,19772,1501,18647,254,10172,49227,34094,79,49228,49944,61939,5598,36723,16,15,7712,96172],"class_list":["post-248744","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-boxing","tag-a","tag-against","tag-alalshikh","tag-as","tag-boxing","tag-com","tag-fight","tag-for","tag-front-page","tag-goes","tag-has","tag-latest-news","tag-mmamania","tag-on","tag-ring","tag-shakur","tag-shrinks","tag-sports","tag-stevenson","tag-surprise","tag-that","tag-the","tag-turki","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-william","tag-zepeda"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114819190556870728","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/248744","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=248744"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/248744\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/248745"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=248744"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=248744"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=248744"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}