WHILE the Formula 1 roadshow will shut up shop and head for Abu Dhabi almost as quickly as it turned up, the man who will take centre stage in Las Vegas just two days before the race is here to stay in this part of the desert.
New Jersey-born Shakur Stevenson faces Edwin De Los Santos in an unusual Thursday night outing (November 16), returning to the top of the bill in Vegas but doing so for the first time at the Strip’s biggest venue, the T-Mobile Arena.
“Yeah, it’s big,” he says. “Let’s do it.”
At first, a Thursday night in Vegas in such a vast arena seems like a huge ask, but this is old-school promoting: take advantage of the sports fans in town for the F1 on Sunday, the course for which includes a large section of The Strip itself, and provide them with an extra attraction to consume.
“I’m the show, so at the end of the day, I have to put the asses on the seats,” Stevenson adds. “And I’ll do whatever I need to do to make it happen.”
