{"id":538224,"date":"2026-03-13T17:42:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-13T17:42:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/538224\/"},"modified":"2026-03-13T17:42:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-13T17:42:08","slug":"shakur-stevenson-wants-to-fight-the-man-who-beat-gervonta-davis-best-vs-best","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/538224\/","title":{"rendered":"Shakur Stevenson wants to fight the man who ‘beat’ Gervonta Davis: “Best vs best”"},"content":{"rendered":"

Shakur Stevenson<\/a> has welcomed a fight against a former rival of Gervonta Davis<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Stevenson is currently planning his next move after defeating Teofimo Lopez at Madison Square Garden in January<\/a> to win the WBO super-lightweight title.<\/p>\n

That victory saw the American become a four-weight world champion, having also previously reigned at featherweight, super featherweight and lightweight in his career.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s currently unknown if Stevenson\u2019s next fight will be at 135lbs or 140lbs, but one potential fight could come against a man who has competed in both of those weight classes.<\/p>\n

Lamont Roach is the fighter in question, who gained prominence last year after a controversial majority decision draw against Gervonta Davis, with a lot of people believing he had done enough to win that fight.<\/p>\n

Stevenson is one of them, after he revealed on the Nightcap Show<\/a> that he thinks Roach should have beaten Davis, even without the controversy in round nine where \u2018Tank\u2019 voluntarily took a knee but no knockdown was scored.<\/p>\n

\u201cYeah, I do [think Roach beat him]. I thought without the knee he won that fight.\u201d<\/p>\n

Stevenson also explained his willingness to share the ring with Roach.<\/p>\n

\u201cI would love to fight Lamont Roach. Me and Lamont Roach is an amazing fight. The best vs the best.\u201d<\/p>\n

Roach\u2019s last fight came in December when he was held to another draw, this time against Isaac Cruz, and he has recently been ordered for a fight against William Zepeda for the vacant WBC lightweight title<\/a>, which was recently stripped from Stevenson.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Shakur Stevenson has welcomed a fight against a former rival of Gervonta Davis. Stevenson is currently planning his…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":538225,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[571],"tags":[64,63,802,85],"class_list":["post-538224","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\/538224","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=538224"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/538224\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/538225"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=538224"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=538224"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=538224"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}