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Shakur Stevenson stepped in to fill a void and give Top Rank a main event to close out their 2020, and in the end took a rather ho-hum decision win over Toka Kahn Clary at the MGM Grand “Bubble” in Las Vegas.
Stevenson (15-0, 8 KO) won on scores of 100-90 across the board, which was the only score to have. Clary falls to 28-3 (19 KO) in the shutout defeat.
The 23-year-old Stevenson actually hurt Clary, 28, early in the fight, and it seemed in the first few rounds that he would end the fight when he wanted to, but if that’s the case, he never quite wanted to do it. More likely is Clary just didn’t give him a lot to work with overall, and Stevenson never really pressed. Shakur took this fight on a few weeks’ notice as did Clary, to be fair when the originally planned Miguel Berchelt vs Oscar Valdez fight fell through after Berchelt tested positive for COVID.
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Shakur Stevenson breezed past Toka Kahn Clary over ten rounds in Las Vegas on Saturday Photo Credit: Mikey Williams/Top Rank via Getty Images
It was yet another routine performance for Shakur Stevenson, as he routed Toka Kahn Clary on the scorecards over ten rounds inside the MGM Grand Bubble in Las Vegas on Saturday.
Stevenson, (15-0, 8 KOs) a former world champion at Featherweight is now campaigning at Super Featherweight, and would have wanted a statement win to send a message to the world champions in the division, but he was forced to settle for a landslide points win instead.