Mike Tyson and Magic Johnson bathe Shakur Stevenson in reward after win over Robson Conceicao

Shakur Stevenson has been praised by Mike Tyson and Magic Johnson for displaying his class in opposition to Robson Conceicao.

The pair confronted one another final night time in the primary occasion of a Prime Rank present reside on Sky Sports activities, which came about at Newark’s Prudential Middle.

Stevenson might have his super-featherweight titles on the scales the day beforehand however that didn’t cease Tyson and Johnson from singing his praises after such a masterful efficiency on Friday.

The previous world champion definitely regarded like he had some extent to show as he got here out to a loud reception in his house state of New Jersey.

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Conceicao tried his greatest to fend off Stevenson for a lot of the battle however had no reply for his opponent’s pace and accuracy.

The Olympic gold medallist caught his American rival with a counter proper hand a number of seconds into the primary spherical, solely to be knocked off steadiness by the 25-year-old minutes later.

And that basically set the tone for the remainder of the battle, with Stevenson deservedly getting the nod on all three of the judges’ scorecards.

Boxing Information – Mike Tyson praises Shakur Stevenson

Two judges scored the bout 117-109 in favour of Stevenson, whereas the third had the Olympic silver medallist a 118-108 winner.

In a video uploaded to Twitter, Tyson was fast to reward Stevenson following his dominant victory over Conceicao.

The boxing legend, who was unable to attend in individual for unknown causes, tweeted: “Shakur Stevenson will win titles within the subsequent weight division. He’s unstoppable proper now.”

Within the video, he mentioned: “Shakur Stevenson is a first-class fighter and I don’t suppose it’s going to make any distinction that he’s given his titles up due to weight distinction, he’ll simply go to the following division and win that title as properly.”

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Boxing Information – Magic Johnson calls Shakur Stevenson a ‘function mannequin’

Equally, Johnson additionally tweeted Stevenson his congratulations after witnessing him placed on such a masterclass in entrance of his house crowd.

He wrote on Twitter: “Simply completed watching Shakur Stevenson beat Robson Conceicao by unanimous resolution! Congratulations Shakur Stevenson!”

The ex-NBA All-Star was left suitably impressed after he discovered that Stevenson had kindly provided tickets to youngsters from faculties in his native space in order that they might attend the present in individual.

“I used to be already a fan however now I’m a good greater fan of Shakur Stevenson for inviting over 100 elementary faculty college students to his boxing match at present,” he added.

Whereas Johnson additionally referred to as Stevenson “an inspiration” to younger folks in his area people.

In a follow-up publish, he tweeted: “He’s an inspiration and reveals them that by way of schooling, laborious work, and self-discipline they will obtain nice issues of their life like their function mannequin Shakur.”

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