But Stevenson said he has no worries about rust in his ring return, which will come when he makes his seventh title defense against fellow explosive puncher Thomas Williams Jr. in the main event of a Premier Boxing Champions card on Friday (Spike, 9 p.m. ET) at the Videotron Centre in Quebec City.
"Last year, I think I did three or four fights. Now this year I'm going to fight two times, so my layoff will be good for me," Stevenson said during a recent teleconference with reporters to talk about the fight. "It's not a problem. I was in the gym every day. The layoff is not a problem for me because I'm always training."
Adonis Stevenson-Thomas Williams Jr.
Where: Videotron Centre in Quebec City
When: Friday, 9 p.m. ET
TV: Spike
Perhaps the layoff clouded Stevenson's memory because he actually only had two fights in 2015 as well as two in 2014. He did fight four times in 2013. That was the year he took the title off Chad Dawson by devastating first-round knockout in just 76 seconds.
Still, Stevenson, a Haiti native fighting out of his adopted hometown of Montreal, again reiterated his supposed busy 2015.
"I need to recover because in 2015 I fought like three or four times," he said. "Everything is good now. I'm ready to fight. I don't have injuries, so I'm ready now. Sometimes it's good to recover, to take a break and come back stronger."
Even when Stevenson (27-1, 22 KOs) has fought he has not exactly been tested as he has been matched relatively softly during most of his title reign. His last three defenses have come against overmatched Dmitry Sukhotsky (fifth-round knockout) in 2014, faded former super middleweight titlist Sakio Bika (clear-cut unanimous decision) 15 months ago and journeyman Tommy Karpency (third-round knockout) in an epic mismatch in September.
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