Eddie Hearn anticipates Shakur Stevenson vs William Zepeda in Feb. 2025

With the information breaking that Shakur Stevenson’s combat with Joe Cordina goes within the dumpster now that Stevenson has needed to withdraw on account of an harm suffered in coaching camp, his Matchroom promoter Eddie Hearn talks about what occurred and what would be the plan for Stevenson now.

Hearn on Stevenson injuring himself and withdrawing from the Joe Cordina combat

“Restricted information, actually. Spoke to Shakur final night time, he broken his hand in camp. He’s been coaching in Colorado, sparring, and went to get scanned final night time and he tore a tendon in his knuckle. He needed to go for quick surgical procedure, which he had this morning. He’s out of surgical procedure now, very dissatisfied — clearly dissatisfied for himself and we’re dissatisfied for Shakur and Joe Cordina as properly and for Riyadh Season as properly, however there’s nothing you are able to do.

“Operation full and now it’s the highway to restoration for 2025. We’ve been informed we are able to anticipate him to be prepared for February of 2025.”

On whether or not Stevenson will now head straight to a William Zepeda combat upon his return

“Yeah. I imply, clearly we need to search for alternatives for Joe and we nonetheless prefer to make that combat however on the identical time the WBC, in fact, have ordered that combat with Zepeda. Zepeda fights in November so it’s fairly doubtless he heads straight into that combat.

“Fighters get injured on a regular basis however sadly this was an operation that he needed to have. Dissatisfied for Shakur and for Riyadh Season, and for Joe. It was a combat that everyone was trying ahead to by way of the fighters, and Joe was fired up for it and so was Shakur, trying ahead to that combat after which shifting into Zepeda.

“We’re trying on the future and the longer term is simply to get him again to full well being and prepare to combat, and goal that combat in February, March 2025, or each time it’s going to be. However the plan for me was for after these two combat, to combat Gervonta Davis, and that also stays the identical, whether or not that’s one combat or two fights.”