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THERE might come a time in Shakur Stevenson’s promising career when his date with Edwin de los Santos will be spoken of with a warped sense of affection, but even within a culture of the shortest of memories, what unfolded between them means that that time, should indeed it come, will arrive in years rather than months or weeks.

The 26-year-old Stevenson remains the likeliest long-term successor to Terence Crawford as the world’s finest fighter, yet until such a time as that, or defining fights against the likes of Devin Haney or Gervonta

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