{"id":936439,"date":"2026-10-22T03:40:09","date_gmt":"2026-10-22T03:40:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/936439\/"},"modified":"2026-10-22T03:40:09","modified_gmt":"2026-10-22T03:40:09","slug":"insiders-recap-shakur-stevensons-zuffa-boxing-split","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/936439\/","title":{"rendered":"Insiders recap Shakur Stevenson&#8217;s Zuffa Boxing split"},"content":{"rendered":"<p dir=\"ltr\">Shakur Stevenson\u2019s decision to split with Zuffa Boxing only months after signing and staging a photo-op with Dana White leaves both the fighter and promotion facing daunting questions.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">The first is whether Zuffa Boxing, backed by the 60-per cent ownership reach of Saudi Arabia boxing financier Turki Alalshikh, has the stomach to consistently produce the type of high-priced purses elite fighters like unbeaten four-division champion Stevenson and his powerful team will request?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Shakur Stevenson\u2019s decision to split with Zuffa Boxing only months after signing and staging a photo-op with Dana&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":936440,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[571],"tags":[64,63,802,1920,6653,958,13417,85,114155],"class_list":["post-936439","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-boxing","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-boxing","tag-boxing-news","tag-boxingscene","tag-dana-white","tag-shakur-stevenson","tag-sports","tag-zuffa-boxing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/936439","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=936439"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/936439\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/936440"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=936439"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=936439"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=936439"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}