{"id":801308,"date":"2026-07-15T06:37:11","date_gmt":"2026-07-15T06:37:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/801308\/"},"modified":"2026-07-15T06:37:11","modified_gmt":"2026-07-15T06:37:11","slug":"shakur-stevenson-names-the-4-americans-on-his-hitlist-after-signing-with-zuffa-theyre-all-big-fights","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/801308\/","title":{"rendered":"Shakur Stevenson names the 4 Americans on his hitlist after signing with Zuffa: “They’re all big fights”"},"content":{"rendered":"

Shakur Stevenson is targeting four Americans, including Gervonta Davis<\/a> and Devin Haney<\/a>, after inking a multi-year deal with Dana White\u2019s Zuffa Boxing.<\/p>\n

The 29-year-old had been heavily linked to White\u2019s promotional outfit for quite some time, with an announcement finally arriving via social media last week.<\/p>\n

This follows Stevenson\u2019s dominant performance against Teofimo Lopez<\/a>, who he dethroned with a wide unanimous decision victory to become a four-division world champion in January.<\/p>\n

But despite holding the WBO super-lightweight title, the slick southpaw has made it clear that his focus is on securing the \u201cbig fights\u201d, rather than on collecting all the belts and becoming an undisputed champion.<\/p>\n

It is therefore unsurprising that two of his primary targets are \u2018Tank\u2019 Davis and WBO welterweight champion Haney, who are both among the sport\u2019s most high-profile fighters.<\/p>\n

Perhaps more interestingly, though, Stevenson is also keen to fight WBA super-lightweight champion Gary Antuanne Russell and Lamont Roach, who will face William Zepeda for the vacant WBC lightweight title on August 1.<\/p>\n

Speaking with Raheem Palmer<\/a>, Stevenson concedes that each of these potential opponents would qualify for a competitive tussle.<\/p>\n

\u201c[They\u2019re] all big fights; [they\u2019re] all competitive to where these guys are coming in to whoop my ass, and I\u2019m coming in to whoop [they\u2019re] ass.<\/p>\n

\u201c[They\u2019re] the kind of fights that I would love to have.\u201d<\/p>\n

Whether any of these matchups can materialise, it remains to be seen, but Stevenson has certainly not selected a feeble four-man hit list.<\/p>\n

Despite being one of the lesser-known names, Russell boasts a 90% knockout-to-win ratio and comes off back-to-back triumphs over Jose Valenzuela and Andy Hiraoka.<\/p>\n

Roach, meanwhile, boxed to a controversial draw against \u2018Tank\u2019 in March 2025<\/a>, before encountering the same result \u2013 this one less contentious \u2013 against Isaac \u2018Pitbull\u2019 Cruz later that year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Shakur Stevenson is targeting four Americans, including Gervonta Davis and Devin Haney, after inking a multi-year deal with…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":801309,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[571],"tags":[64,63,802,85],"class_list":["post-801308","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\/801308","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=801308"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/801308\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/801309"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=801308"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=801308"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=801308"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}