By Frank Bay: Shakur Twitterson is lifeless, in the ring and outside. I will start by saying that the relationship between professional sport and fans is mutual. Sometimes athletes and owners/promoters forget about this aspect. I don’t mind paying for events.

If it is a NFL seasonal pass or a vast PPV box, I will open my wallet, even against my better judgment. Yes, I’m easily suck, but I’m not a fool. I will watch Canelo Alvarez is fighting at Cinco de Mayo, but I don’t pay for it. No, I won’t steal it. I will probably watch it with friends and family, because it is a conventional party boxing weekend.

As for sport, I have my limitations to what I will be developed for. When I get the NFL seasonal pass or go to a baseball match, I get what I pay for. The price does not matter, but I refuse to pay regularly for a faint product. When the teams are faint, the owners do not reduce prices to reflect fans’ investments.

No, instead, they raise the price for parking. That is why NFL and MLB teams, at least for optics, are stressed. When the team wins, the fans are ready to take the second mortgage for seasonal tickets. Fans are suckers and count me in this group. But when it comes to boxing and using Shakur Stevenson as an example, it becomes painfully clear that the powers that are only one way.

Boxing expects you to pay what you want without giving. They give you the opposite (i.e. Josh Padley vs. Stevenson) and expect you to pay even more for the next event. This creates a Spridedown effect. Fighters expect the same.

Turkish Alalshikh aka John

Turks Alalshikh learns boxing on their own skin. In my podcast last year I predicted that Turki would see that throwing cash, as if he were in a club with stripterse, not enough to control the boxing game.

Nuans and quirks deep in boxing cannot be controlled or eliminated by a man with money who wants to rule with an iron fist. Boxers are more like actors than athletes, because, like actors, boxers can choose their roles, i.e. fate. Unlike conviction, boxers do not choose fights solely on the basis of money.

In the era of social media, after the era after the purchase of Mayweather, warriors are much more fueled by perception. Just look at what happened to the former Mayweather Devin Haney clone. Look at the only warrior who will not kiss the ring of his Excellency, the previously impermeable tank Davis after one butt. As they say, perception is a reality.

Shakur, who was called Twitterson, is in the face of a crossroads, and I would not be surprised if we saw Shakur Stevenson sitting in the foreseeable future. Before Stevenson left the highest rank, it was reported that he was nervous, that Lomachenko or Navarrete refused to feed him the highest rank. Business was the best rank.

After the departure, Stevenson comfortably omitted that Loma and Navarrete gave him the highest rank if he signed with them again. Common sense would tell Twitterson that the highest ranking must be able to replace a star like Loma Shakur, because it is very likely that he would beat an senior veteran.

I am not sure how illusive or illustrating Stevenson is to think that the highest ranking will be registered to give him a Loma and Lomachenko belt, just to see them left them as if they were in 7 months pregnant.

The best rank and good Riddance

Brisk forward and Shakur signed a contract with Hearn, which works closely with Turka. Hearn signed Shakur with applicable contracts. Hearn ordered Turks to meet Shakur and they shook their hands. Shakur was told what was expected of him. Shakur claimed that he wanted vast fights.

He was now in a position with people who could do it, or at least we thought so. When it comes to caution what you wish, Shakur Stevenson has received his battle orders and now Awol went. When the fighters discuss how the activities related to the fight are going, the promoter offers fighters a list of possible opponents.

Then the warrior and his team are forced to choose from the options. Each fight is associated with the risk option vs. prizes. The fighter must choose or be forced to sit. If the warrior rejects the fight, which has contractual duties, then the promoter may sit the warrior.

The contract works both ways. For example, the promoter must satisfy the duty to give his warrior 3 fights at a certain time. When there is a problem, the warrior has about two options. I come to mind the options that we saw, as noted by Mikey Garcia and Andre Ward fighters.

You fight the right to leave, which can cost more money than it is worth or sit and wait until the contract expires. Teofimo recently tried to leave the contract with Harvard Grad and a former lawyer Bob Arum.

The claim was that Teo was not guilty of the highest rank of the last fight. The highest rank counteracts, claiming that Teo decided to reject the date of the fight, so they had the right to sit down. Finally, they solved their problems, which is one of the way it works. If Turki did not come and save Teofimo, he would still sit off the beaten track.

Will Stevenson bear the same fate? I am ready to bet that he would not mind Snos, especially if WBC allows him to pull Jermalla Charlo and let him be a champion for years without a fight. Remember that Shakur Stevenson has already threw the Sypson fit and retired among the highest rank dissatisfaction.

Turki never imagined that Lampart would eat his face. Neither a year, and Tyson Fury withdraws from him without fighting Anthony Joshua, Jaron Ennis rejects a significant fight, and now Stevenson tells him, thanks, no. Even worse, after he was paid very signing with Hearn and paying a lot more money than he deserved to fight the electrician part -time Padley in a tiny time to Undercard, turns and bites his hand, which feeds him and his promoter. A very tiny -sighted action if you ask me.

Cheat me once, shame me

I consider myself a bookmaking man and I am ready to bet that the script played something like this: Turki told Shakur that he would pay him honestly. Shakur then had to start twisting the narrative, apart from the essential context. He claims that Turki returned for his word.

Shakur accused Turks of promising him a certain amount for the fight of William Zepeda. However, when it was offered to him, it was much less than what was promised for the first time and shot him down properly. This sounds reasonable and probably happens in boxing all the time. I mean that for some reason it is called negotiations.

But I will tell you something in a wise word: when it comes to negotiations, and especially boxing negotiations, when they become popular, i.e. someone negotiates publicly, on Twitter, that’s over. It won’t happen.

The whole Shakur tries to negotiate in social media to be the first, so that he can twist and reverse social narrative to turn off in his favor. His only hope is to get sufficient mindless support of fans to heal his frail ego. Petite social support, which he currently receives from his hits, is enough to feed his narcissism. The rest of us see what it is: a massive duck

I assume that Turki Ali said to Shakur: “Listen, Shakur, I know that the money I offer for Zepeda is less than originally intended, but this is because I kindly rewarded you for the inconveniences related to the fight with the delayed replacement and massively overpaying you for Padley.

The numbers will show that I am more than a generous in the modern offer. “As you can see, Turki looked at the numbers and saw what someone could see about Twitterson, that he was not worth it. His attitude and reaction to Turki’s generosity just prove it.

Turks, like me, is a fool, but he is nobody a cheater. From the Turk’s point of view, he fulfills his promises and responsibilities with Shakur. Road overwhelmed him for Padley against a better judgment, but he did it to make him cheerful, do a favor and keep his activity.

Now Turki, thinking that he will receive the same reasonable mutual decision, is like he was a side element that Shakur can throw away. Shakur seems to be going to burn another bridge, as if there were hundreds in boxing.

What Turks offers is almost the same amount for two fights. He realizes that he overpayed Padley’s fight, so he wants to reduce the blow from the back. Is it less than truthful? I am not saying that in reality, when as fans we realize that Turki did a favor to him, paying him much more than he is worth.

The fans left the bag

Fans have been wanting to fight Zepeda vs Shakur for over a year. When I talked about boxing that gave us what we want, we just witnessed how it went into smoke. Zepeda was accused of being a duck, but I think you can safely assume that she will no longer be guilty.

In a little comedy, I see how his flatters try to twist narrative mental gymnasts and find a way to accuse Zepeda and de la Hoya for being a real duck. One of the narratives is that he is fighting prizes and it’s about a “bag”. That is why Shakur is not a duck and is an knowledgeable businessman.

But where I see stunning hypocrisy, it is also the same fans that Bash Canelo Alvares and any other warrior who does the same. Alvarez is the best public enemy for wise choice and prohibits $ 100 million for William Scull.

However, you will hear a lot of praise because Shakur did the same without the same distinctions or a huge base of fans on which you can return. When Floyd Mayweather reached the “bag” phase, he already had distinctions and a built -in fans base.

In my opinion, it was a tiny -sabotage tiny -sabotage movement. Canelo can twist anyone he wants because there is someone who wants to do it for it. Shakur does not have another Turk -like figure in the back pocket, who will save him and pay for the fight with another peeling.

Shakur settled because I don’t see anyone would like to pay him a lot of money. He will not receive him again for supple accents and will not get huge names and money he demands, because everyone can see that there is no option.

Shakur and his team Ssali Turki and cheated Hearna, who must be between the stone and the challenging place, scratching his head about what to do with him. But while Turks can wash his hands with ingratitude, Hearn got stuck with this albatros.

After all, the other fans hold the bag. We allowed Shakur to reach so far without attracting him responsibility. Many fans told his narrative that everyone was cheating him.

People accepted Padley’s fight because Scholfield withdrew was not his fault, and we got Zepeda. But it seems that this is the last straw before even his steadfast fans do not pay for his fights anymore.