Floyd Schofield is officially out of Saturday’s showdown with Shakur Stevenson in Riyadh
The Ring announced on Twitter that undefeated lightweight Floyd Schofield, who no-showed today’s Grand Arrivals for Saturday’s Riyadh Season clash with Shakur Stevenson, has officially been pulled by the BBBofC due to illness.
Organizers are on the hunt for a last-second replacement foe, with The Ring naming BoxRec no. 12 super featherweight Moussa Gholam (22-1, 13 KO) and WBC no. 12 lightweight Josh Padley (15-0, 4 KO) as potential candidates. You’ll recall Padley from last September’s upset of Turki Alalshikh’s special boy, Mark Chamberlain, while Gholam’s biggest fight to date saw him drop a split decision to world-ranked Elnur Samedov in 2022.
Neither figure to trouble Stevenson (22-0, 10 KO), but considering what organizers usually scrounge up on four days’ notice, they could do a lot worse.
Schofield (18-0, 12 KO), last seen getting off the canvas to beat veteran Rene Tellez Giron in November, initially got the call when a hand injury to mandatory challenger William Zepeda torpedoed a planned clash with Stevenson. We’ll see if he can snag another major opportunity in the near future.
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