{"id":791664,"date":"2026-07-10T16:09:19","date_gmt":"2026-07-10T16:09:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/791664\/"},"modified":"2026-07-10T16:09:19","modified_gmt":"2026-07-10T16:09:19","slug":"undefeated-champion-shakur-stevenson-signs-multi-fight-deal-with-zuffa-boxing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/791664\/","title":{"rendered":"Undefeated champion Shakur Stevenson signs multi-fight deal with Zuffa Boxing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">Undefeated boxer and multiple weight world champion Shakur Stevenson has inked a deal to join the roster at Zuffa Boxing.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">The promotion announced the news on Thursday with Stevenson reportedly signing a multi-fight deal with Zuffa.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">Ranked as one of the top pound-for-pound boxers in the world, Stevenson is the latest high profile signing since Zuffa Boxing officially launched back in January. Stevenson joins Zuffa with a perfect 25-0 record while capturing titles across four divisions during his career.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">Most recently, Stevenson won the WBO and Ring junior welterweight titles with a shutout performance over Teofimo Lopez in January.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">\u201cLine them up, one by one, and I\u2019ll beat all the top guys once I get them in front of me,\u201d Stevenson said in a press release. \u201cWith Zuffa Boxing, I\u2019m going to go after the biggest fights in the sport and I will become the No. 1 pound-for-pound fighter in the world.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">A defensive nightmare for opponents, Stevenson has consistently gone up in weight to seek out new challenges, which included his win over Lopez earlier this year.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">It\u2019s unclear when Stevenson plans to debut for Zuffa Boxing but now that he\u2019s officially signed, the promotion can get to work on booking his next fight.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Undefeated boxer and multiple weight world champion Shakur Stevenson has inked a deal to join the roster at&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":791665,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[570],"tags":[64,63,802,1920,786,1347,785,85],"class_list":["post-791664","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mma","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-boxing","tag-boxing-news","tag-fighting","tag-latest-news","tag-mma","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/791664","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=791664"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/791664\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/791665"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=791664"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=791664"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=791664"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}