DallasTxRep
Superstar
Shakur is still young tho. The older and more confident and more outspoken he gets, the more people will start to hate him
you're starting to already see it a little bit with Haney.
6/9 ESPN: Shakur Stevenson vs Felix Caraballo
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you're starting to already see it a little bit with Haney.
The card started at 7...there were 4 fights before the main one.
Recca Gatsby
LWO
I need a gif of that KO
Omar Little
It’s all in the Game Yo
Card sucked but just glad that the sweet science is back.
krackdagawd
Inspire.
#NewarkMade
reservoirdogs
Superstar
This wasn’t the fight to find out anything new about Stevenson but he did what he had to 
reservoirdogs
Superstar
he made Warrington look bad like the spoiler Galahad is but at the same time he didn't look good either and still got outworked
I think Stevenson is more of a classical boxer than a spoiler with lots of clinching and smothering
Shakur is probably faster than Warrington but it would be interesting how he could deal with Warrington's constant pressure and volume
CanesMiamiLakers
All Star
I fell asleep right before the fight 
desjardins
Veteran
shakur looked good. Maybe his power will increase as he puts on man weight and this bout is the first sign of that. He had dude hurt multiple times
everyone knew the card was trash going in but it's still nice to have bouts. it felt weird having no crowd reaction when big blows were landed and when ppl got dropped but otherwise didn't really care about the empty arena
everyone knew the card was trash going in but it's still nice to have bouts. it felt weird having no crowd reaction when big blows were landed and when ppl got dropped but otherwise didn't really care about the empty arena
Stevenson-Caraballo ESPN Telecast Peaked At 609K Viewers, Averaged 397K
By Keith Idec
Published On Wed Jun 10, 2020, 07:47 PM EDT
Viewership for the first televised, live boxing event in the United States since mid-March was reflective of the largely low level of competition ESPN aired Tuesday night from Las Vegas.
According to Nielsen Media Research figures released Wednesday, Top Rank’s 3½-hour telecast on ESPN was watched by an average of 397,000 viewers. The five-fight show drew a peak audience of 609,000 sometime between 10-10:15 p.m. ET, during the main event, in which Shakur Stevenson knocked out Felix Caraballo in the sixth round at MGM Grand Conference Center.
The 22-year-old Stevenson (14-0, 8 KOs) is the WBO featherweight champion and one of the sport’s top young fighters, but the 2016 Olympic silver medalist was consistently listed as a 100-1 favorite to beat Caraballo. The courageous Caraballo (13-2-2, 9 KOs), a 33-year-old supermarket warehouse worker who was overwhelmed throughout by far the most difficult fight of his career, took the fight on less than four weeks’ notice.
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Stevenson spent much of 5½ rounds battering Caraballo, before the skillful southpaw from Newark, New Jersey, drilled the Puerto Rican veteran with a left to the body that sent him to his gloves and knees. A temporarily immobilized Caraballo couldn’t get up, which led to referee Tony Weeks stopping the fight at 1:31 of the sixth round.
Their non-title bout, fought at the junior lightweight limit of 130 pounds, was scheduled for 10 rounds.
ESPN’s telecast, which began at 7 p.m. ET, also included four undercard fights, two of which resulted in first-round knockouts. Those quick conclusions and later a third-round knockout left ESPN’s broadcasters to fill plenty of airtime between bouts because the show was supposed to account for a four-hour programming block.
Top Rank and ESPN had to kill additional time due to the late cancelation of a 10-round women’s bout between Mikaela Mayer (12-0, 5 KOs) and Helen Joseph (17-4-2, 10 KOs). That junior lightweight fight, which was supposed to air immediately before the Stevenson-Caraballo bout, was scratched from the card Sunday because Mayer, a 2016 U.S. Olympian, tested positive for COVID-19.
Nevertheless, industry insiders believed viewership would be higher for boxing’s first televised, live event since March 13, when Showtime broadcast bouts from Hinckley, Minnesota. Tuesday has not been a traditional night to televise boxing, though, since USA Network canceled its long-running “Tuesday Night Fights” series in 1998.
ESPN will air another Top Rank card Thursday night from MGM Grand Conference Center.
The main event – Jessie Magdaleno (27-1, 18 KOs) against Yenifel Vicente (36-4-2, 28 KOs, 1 NC) in a 10-round junior lightweight fight – should be much more competitive than Stevenson-Caraballo. That telecast will begin at 8 p.m. ET because that card was cut down to four fights Wednesday when an undercard fighter came in way overweight.
Cant believe I missed this fight, gonna go back and watch it now
Forgot to post my thoughts.
Seen every fight from Shakur, the kid is still a beast, of course, this one was easy for him like the others but I feel like I've seen him take more punches in this one than ever before, so he gotta tighten up on D.
Looks like they gonna keep dragging out the Warrington matchup especially since covid has hit and everybody's pockets are gonna get squeezed, but if and when they do that fight I think the stardom he's looking for will come if he wins.
Unlike Lomachenko he doesn't have that 1 on his record so the casual audience will soon catch on.
Seen every fight from Shakur, the kid is still a beast, of course, this one was easy for him like the others but I feel like I've seen him take more punches in this one than ever before, so he gotta tighten up on D.
Looks like they gonna keep dragging out the Warrington matchup especially since covid has hit and everybody's pockets are gonna get squeezed, but if and when they do that fight I think the stardom he's looking for will come if he wins.
Unlike Lomachenko he doesn't have that 1 on his record so the casual audience will soon catch on.