The belt is home, and the Schofield camp is done being quiet about how the lightweight division really works.
In a new Mill City Boxing interview, Floyd Schofield Sr. laid out his side of the story — starting with the performance everyone keeps picking apart. The shoulder-roll boxing his son used to beat Lucas Bahdi and take the WBA lightweight title was not a scare, the camp insists; it was the plan. Bahdi is one of the hardest punchers at 135, and Kid Austin boxed him, heard the final bell as champion, and never needed to trade recklessly to prove a point.
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From there, Sr. went straight at the rankings. His claim: Sam Noakes was moved up the list so Abdullah Mason could get a clean title path, and he name-checked the Ali Act while he said it. In the camp’s telling, Mason’s side also turned a Schofield fight down when it was there to be made — which is why the Schofields bristle every time the duck label gets thrown at them. Their money, Sr. argued, is built on DAZN exposure, endorsements and social media, not on begging for one payday. Even Gervonta Davis got a mention: at a true 135, the camp believes Tank would walk in drained and weak, a different fighter from the one the highlight reels sell.
Then came the hit list, and it is the right kind of ambitious. William Zepeda — Golden Boy’s WBC champion — is framed as the mega-fight, an in-house unification that needs no cross-promotional excuses. Gary Antuanne Russell and Rayo Valenzuela are on the board too. Woven through all of it was the camp’s size argument: what a fighter walks around at, and how he rehydrates, decides whether 135, 140 or 147 is his real home — the same fault line running through half the fights that never get signed in this division.
Say what you want about the Schofields’ volume. The substance is a champion naming champions. Zepeda next would be a genuine clash of styles: Zepeda’s relentless output against Schofield’s timing and counter-punching. That is a real fight, made the right way, and this camp keeps asking for it in public. In a division full of staged negotiations, that still counts for something.
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