{"id":470894,"date":"2026-02-10T16:01:19","date_gmt":"2026-02-10T16:01:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/470894\/"},"modified":"2026-02-10T16:01:19","modified_gmt":"2026-02-10T16:01:19","slug":"shakur-stevenson-now-wants-to-face-one-man-next-instead-of-conor-benn-id-love-that-fight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/470894\/","title":{"rendered":"Shakur Stevenson now wants to face one man next instead of Conor Benn: “I’d love that fight”"},"content":{"rendered":"

Four-division world champion Shakur Stevenson<\/a> called for a clash with Conor Benn<\/a> after his latest victory, but now the Newark southpaw has named a different fighter as his ideal next opponent.<\/p>\n

Stevenson dethroned Teofimo Lopez to become the WBO super-lightweight world champion last month<\/a>, thrusting his name higher up the pound-for-pound rankings and taking his stardom to a new level.<\/p>\n

Before the contest, the 28-year-old voiced his intention to return to the lightweight division, but that now seems to have changed.<\/p>\n

Immediately after his victory over Lopez, Shakur\u2019s willingness to fight at 147lbs was clear, as he called for a fight with Benn and opened the door to a potential super-fight on British soil.<\/p>\n

Now, it appears as though Stevenson\u2019s move to the welterweight division could soon go ahead, but he told streamer Adin Ross<\/a> that his ideal next opponent would be an alternate 147lb operator, Ryan Garcia.<\/p>\n

\u201cI like Ryan, Ryan Garcia. I would love to fight Ryan Garcia.\u201d<\/p>\n

Later this month, Garcia will take on WBC welterweight world champion Mario Barrios in a bid to finally claim world honours, with both Benn and now Stevenson waiting in the wings to secure a potential title shot against Garcia later in the year.<\/p>\n

Although, from Garcia\u2019s perspective, the Briton will likely be the preferred opponent, with Stevenson keen to insert a rehydration clause into the contract of any future welterweight bouts<\/a> and Benn still relatively unproven at the world level.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Four-division world champion Shakur Stevenson called for a clash with Conor Benn after his latest victory, but now…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":456513,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[571],"tags":[64,63,802,85],"class_list":["post-470894","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-boxing","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-boxing","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/470894","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=470894"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/470894\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/456513"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=470894"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=470894"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=470894"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}