Too often in boxing, promising young fighters are endlessly hyped as future stars, only to flicker and fade before they ever so much as begin to prove what all the fuss was about. So we should take a moment to appreciate what Stevenson is doing right now. After picking off a long series of lesser opponents and, perhaps worse, feinting his way through a few snoozefests against stiffer competition, Stevenson is now delivering the goods. He turned the volume down on free-swinging William Zepeda last July, then moved up to junior welterweight in January to dismantle Teofimo Lopez Jnr, usurp his title and become a four-division champion.
Oscar Collazo represents the ‘little guys’
