Shakur Stevenson has shed new light on the WBC’s decision to strip him of their lightweight championship.

Stevenson, who defeated Teofimo Lopez by unanimous decision on Saturday to win the WBO junior welterweight title and lineal championship, was stripped of the belt he held at 135lbs, it was announced on Wednesday. Though the Mexico-based organization said Wednesday that the decision to strip Stevenson of his title was in line with their rules and regulations, Stevenson says it came down to money.

“100k to some crooks who don’t deserve it? Nah Leilani I rather give it to u baby girl,” Stevenson tweeted on Wednesday afternoon, referencing his daughter.

“The WBC didn’t even have shit to do with this fight and it’s eating them alive[.] Take your belt it don’t make me.”

The WBC issued a statement prior to Stevenson’s tweets, lauding the unbeaten southpaw from Newark, New Jersey, for becoming a four-division champion while highlighting his history with the sanctioning body.

Stevenson continues: “And I just paid these dudes after my last fight.. What the hell im giving yall 100k right now for? Because yall got beef with [Terence ‘Bud’ Crawford] so come at me for it.”

Prior to the Lopez fight, Stevenson, 25-0 (11 KOs), had defeated mandatory challenger William Zepeda by unanimous decision in July, marking the third successful defense of the belt he had won with a 2023 unanimous decision over Edwin De Los Santos.

The decision to strip Stevenson comes well within the 15-day period that the sanctioning body lists in their rules and regulations, under rule 3.14.1, which states that the WBC “may grant the champion 15 days to elect which title the champion will keep and which the champion will vacate.” 

As for Stevenson’s comments about the WBC seeking payment for this WBO title fight with Lopez, Rule 7.3 goes on to state that “in the event that a WBC champion competes in any bout in which his WBC title is not at stake, the champion is obligated to pay to the WBC fifty percent (50%) of the WBC sanction fee payable as if the bout were a title defense.”

A text to WBC President Mauricio Sulaiman seeking comment regarding Stevenson’s social media posts was not responded to by the time of this story’s publication.