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Las Vegas - Shakur Stevenson steps back into the ring tomorrow night in Vegas after three months with no boxing. Shakur is 13-0 with 7 KOs and they're promoting him as the next Floyd Mayweather. Actually, he's promoting himself as the next Floyd. Just check out the quote he gave to ESPN. "I want to out-do Floyd. At 13-0 right now, I think I'm better than where Floyd was when he was 13-0," Stevenson says. "Floyd is the greatest fighter of our era. I just want to be better. I'm going to be running the game when I'm 27, 28, where there's nothing you can do when you get in the ring with me. I'll be that superstar of the sport, that alpha dog." We're talking CONFIDENCE baby! The only thing I DO NOT like about Stevenson is, his nickname. He's using Sugar. Ray Leonard also used Sugar and I NEVER liked that either. There was ONLY one Sugar, and his name was Walker Smith Jr., or, you might remember him as Ray Robinson. Of course I'm a bit partial because he used to roll down Broadway, right past my apartment building, in his pink Cadillac on the way to his restaurant in Harlem. He could also fight, and IS on my Mount Rushmore of boxers, along with Muhammad Ali, Joe Louis and Floyd Mayweather. If you wanna quibble, you can hit my Email, ben@americasline.com. Oops. Sorry. Got carried away with too much Sugar, so we'll drop our picks tomorrow.

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