Shakur Stevenson: record, next fight and profile →
Shakur Stevenson has the kind of confidence that makes him believe he can beat Canelo Alvarez today and Floyd Mayweather Jr. in his prime—but that does not mean that he has never been on the receiving end of a beatdown.
There is no shortage of talented boxers across the 130, 135, and 140-pound divisions. A cavalcade of contests could be mixed and matched between the likes of Shakur Stevenson, Devin Haney, Gervonta Davis, Ryan Garcia, Vasiliy Lomachenko, Teofimo Lopez, and Josh Taylor, just to name a select few.
World super featherweight champion Shakur Stevenson rates O’Shaquie Foster as the second-best fighter in the division. Stevenson, the WBC and WBO title holder at 130-pounds, believes American stylist Foster would defeat the rest of the contenders.
Shakur Stevenson thinks it would be a shame for his career to end without having had a go at one of the top boxers in the world today. Stevenson, the WBO and WBC 130-pound titlist from Newark, New Jersey, also realizes that a fight with the three-division titlist from Ukraine should be relatively easy to make, given that both fighters share the same promoter in Top Rank Inc.
Shakur Stevenson already knows the manner in which he can hang a victory over Gervonta Davis should the two ever meet in the ring. Stevenson, the recently unified 130-pound champion from Newark, New Jersey, was ringside for Davis’ sixth-round stoppage of Rolando Romero in their WBA lightweight title fight last month at the Barclays Center in Brooklyn. Following the win, the southpaw Stevenson offered a straightforward strategy of how to defuse the Baltimore puncher.
The future of the lightweight division and surging undefeated prospect, Ernesto "Tito" Mercado (6-0, 6 KOs), returns on August 25 at The Hangar at the OC Fair and Events Center in Costa Mesa, California. The card will be promoted by Roy Englebrecht Promotions, and Mercado's opponent will be named on a later date.
Shakur Stevenson enjoyed a homecoming for his last fight before officially entering the title picture. His next trip home will come as his stock has never been higher. BoxingScene.com has confirmed that Stevenson will next face Brazil’s Robson Conceicao in defense of his lineal/WBC/WBO junior lightweight championship. The bout will headline a September 23 ESPN show from the Prudential Center in Stevenson’s hometown of Newark, New Jersey. The show takes place on a Friday, due to already scheduled all-day college football programming.
Robeisy Ramirez’s career should be quickly ascending after the two-time Cuban Olympics gold medalist scored a resounding one-punch knockout of the previously unbeaten Abraham Nova.
Eddie Hearn believes his charge, newly crowned titlist Joe Cordina, is the best bet in the 130-pound weight class to upset the division’s kingpin, Shakur Stevenson. Cordina, the 30-year-old Welsh native, is coming off a one-punch knockout of Kenichi Ogawa to win Ogawa’s IBF junior lightweight title earlier this month at Motorpoint Arena in Cardiff, Wales.
Archie Sharp has promised to send a message to world champion Shakur Stevenson by knocking out his opponent in Leeds this month. The WBO’s No1 super featherweight contender, ends an eight month wait by returning to action at Elland Road on Saturday, June 18.