{"id":13723,"date":"2025-07-21T20:24:07","date_gmt":"2025-07-21T20:24:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/13723\/"},"modified":"2025-07-21T20:24:07","modified_gmt":"2025-07-21T20:24:07","slug":"shawn-porter-sparred-conor-benn-and-now-delivers-honest-verdict-on-shakur-stevenson-fight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/13723\/","title":{"rendered":"Shawn Porter Sparred Conor Benn And Now Delivers Honest Verdict On Shakur Stevenson Fight"},"content":{"rendered":"

Shawn Porter<\/a> has had his say on a potential clash between Conor Benn<\/a> and Shakur Stevenson<\/a>.<\/p>\n

British contender Benn suffered the first defeat of his career back in April<\/a> when he was outpointed by bitter rival Chris Eubank Jr at the Tottenham Hotspur Stadium in London, England.<\/p>\n

A rematch between the pair had been expected to take place on September 20 but it has now been revealed that this will not be going ahead on that date.<\/p>\n

It could now take place in November, but Benn has teased a return to welterweight before the end of the year instead, despite making the jump up to middleweight to face Eubank.<\/p>\n

One option for Benn could be a showdown with reigning WBC lightweight champion Stevenson, after the pair went back-and-forth on the Ariel Helwani Show earlier this month with the American star saying he was willing to move up to 147 for a fight.<\/p>\n

Speaking to Fight Hype<\/a>, retired two-time welterweight champion Porter was asked what he believes Stevenson\u2019s next career move should be, and he urged the 28-year-old not to face Benn.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt shouldn\u2019t be to move up and challenge Conor Benn. He can outbox Conor, you know, out-style him and all that kind of stuff but that\u2019s a different punch than the 35, 20, 26 punch, it is, you know, your body can withstand even getting hit on the shoulders and arms and stuff like that but a 47 pound punch on your arms and your shoulders, that\u2019s a little bit different, but outside of that yeah we still want that \u2018Tank\u2019 Davis fight.\u201d<\/p>\n

Stevenson made the most recent defence of his WBC crown on July 12 when he outpointed hard-hitting Mexican William Zepeda at the Louis Armstrong Stadium in New York City.<\/a><\/p>\n

The boxing community are still holding out for the 28-year-old to face fellow countryman Gervonta \u2018Tank\u2019 Davis in the future, but it remains to be seen whether the unbeaten American stars will agree to a showdown against each other.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Shawn Porter has had his say on a potential clash between Conor Benn and Shakur Stevenson. British contender…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":13724,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[447],"tags":[703,49,48,82],"class_list":["post-13723","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-boxing","tag-boxing","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13723","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13723"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13723\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13724"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13723"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13723"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13723"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}