Floyd Schofield Jr recently spent some time talking with Fight Hub TV about a number of topics, and during this particular segment his father and trainer made some bold proclamations about their intentions to be undisputed in two weight classes simultaneously while also also saying he expects Shakur Stevenson’s career to end sooner than you might expect. To be fair, most of the the talking came from Schofield Sr rather than directly from his son, but here’s some of what was said below.
Schofield Sr on saying Shakur Stevenson doesn’t have much time left in the sport
“We make our money with (our hands). Now I understand fracturing and all this, but multiple breaks? Your time is ticking. How many fights, how many sparring you can do to stay at A-level if your hands is (brittle). (Wilder broke his hands) and then after a while he couldn’t throw with that power like he needed to, what happened to his ass? He started getting slid all over the ring.
“So you don’t want that to happen to you. So as a smart man you need to have big fights and cash out, make his money, recoup everybody that had to make money off of him, and sail off to the sunset.”
On how much time he thinks Stevenson has left
“No more than five, no more than five years. And that’s being honest. It depends on the fights he can get. If he can get a Teofimo, if he can lock down a Ryan, if he can lock down a Haney — if he can lock down three fights that can make him a good $20-30M he can sail off good. It’s about money, and people got to understand that it’s about money.
“So I give him one fight a year, three to five years.”
On the importance of understanding the business of boxing
“It ain’t that hard…If you can sell drugs you can sell a boxer. I swear to God. Supply and demand. That’s all it is. Fans are fiends, and it really works the same method. The promoter is just, he’s the lookout, ‘cause he’s the one on the block, you get spotted a brick, you come back with money to him. The promoter just get you the fight, like ‘I got a date and I got this from these people. I need you to help me push it, you the main event…’ He’s spotting you and now you come back, you promote it, you train, you do this, you win — you got him his money back…It’s the same f-ckin’ hustle.”
“We fight for the WBA next…and then fight for the IBF and then we going to see if Shakur ready, we’ll go up there. If he not ready we’ll go fight whoever hold a 140 IBF belt. Because we’re going to hold the 140 belt and the 135 belt simultaneously…They changing rules anyway, if we can be undisputed in two divisions at the same time, sh-t, why not? That’s a hell of an accomplishment, nobody did that.”
