- The fight for the world title of Shakur Stevenson with Floyd Schofield has been called
- Schofield has retired from the fight and now a theory of 'Veneno' has emerged
The fight for the world title of Shakur Stevenson against Floyd Schofield has been suspended.
The cancellation of the fight occurs a few days before the box office success with Artur Beterbiev and Dmitry Bivol scheduled for Saturday night in Riad, Saudi Arabia.
The card full of stars presents a series of world -title fights, however, now you will have less news after Stevenson's news and Schofield's fight are canceled.
Schofield, 22, initially presented to Saudi Arabia and did his duties on the media on Monday, but then disappeared on Tuesday and did not see the big arrivals.
Since then, a wild theory of 'Veneno' has circulated Internet, suggesting that the light challenger had been 'shot'.
According to SUN, it is reported that the filtered messages of Schofield's father, Flofield SR, accused people of unnamed poisoning to their son.
The fight for the world title (right) of Shakur Stevenson against Floyd Schofield (left) has been canceled
The cancellation occurs after Schofield fell ill and could not appear at the big arrivals
A text message sent to Schofield SR leaked online, read: 'This is not something to take Mr. I am not trying not to play games.
'I have love for everyone and looking, but they shot your son'.
The reports also claim that matters are looking for a new opponent for Stevenson to face at night.
In other places, the tastes of Daniel Dubois, Joseph Parker and Callum Smith will fight the night on a card that is promoted as potentially the best of all time.
All eyes will be in the rematch between the Russian couple Berebiev and Bivol, with the confrontation for the indisputable world weight championship after Bederbiev was crowned by the first undisputed champion of the division since 2002 earlier this year.
The Russian duo put a classic in October with a limited victory that went to Bederbiev, but there was outrage of the losing camp when the scores were announced.
While a judge had a draw in 114-114 and another gave Beterbiev a 115-113 victory, there were protests after Pawel Kardyni gave Becterbiev a 116-112 victory.
There are reports that matters are looking to find Stevenson another opponent
The promoter of Bivol, Eddie Hearn, said it was an “absolute joke” and that his fighter, never hit before, had been “stolen”, although he would have even lost if Kardyni had given a closer score.
“We are going to present a protest on Monday,” said Bivol's manager Vadim Kornilov, Boxnation.
'I think the judge has to at least some kind of responsibility for what he did. What they are doing is becoming very destructive for sport.
“These organizations (sanctioning bodies) have supervisors, supervisors are friendly to the judges, they are hugging the promoters, it begins to look like a scheme.”