Shakur Stevenson is set to be ringside at the Barclays Center to watch Gervonta Davis take on Lamont Roach on Saturday in Brooklyn.

Stevenson defended his WBC lightweight title against Josh Padley in Saudi Arabia last week, forcing a corner stoppage in the ninth round with a trio of body-shot knockdowns, and has made it known he would like to fight “Tank” in one of the finest contests that can be made in the sport.

“The agreement with His Excellency [Turki Alalshikh] was to fight [William] Zepeda next,” said Stevenson’s promoter, Eddie Hearn. 

Zepeda, however, first has a rematch scheduled with Tevin Farmer.

“I think he'll be at the ‘Tank’ fight on Saturday. It’s a natural fight [Davis-Stevenson]. I don’t know. I look at Tank, I mean, he’s fighting Lamont Roach. He may get beat. I don’t think so, but he may. Because he’s just become a little bit bored. Do you know what I mean? No one’s really interested in a Lamont Roach fight. And I don’t know another fight for Tank outside of Shakur. Who is there?”

Stevenson, who has struggled with hand injuries, battered both his fists on brave Padley last weekend, and while he did not injure his weapons, he will again need a break as he nurses them back to health.

“Yeah, he’s fine,” said Hearn. “There’s no damage in terms of tendons, ligaments, fractures. He just has problems with his hands. I mean, he won’t mind me saying it. That’s a management [maintenance] thing as well. In an ideal world, he’s just finished a relatively straightforward fight, I would like him to fight in May. He needs a month or two just to let his hands calm down. Don’t forget, he returned very quickly after surgery because he was supposed to fight in December. He had to have quick surgery, and he didn’t have long in that camp. He was in the office the other day, and I was like, ‘We want to try and find a way to strengthen the hands away from surgery.’ He doesn’t need any surgery. He’s had it.

But we'd like to strengthen them.”