{"id":370042,"date":"2025-12-26T13:11:07","date_gmt":"2025-12-26T13:11:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/370042\/"},"modified":"2025-12-26T13:11:07","modified_gmt":"2025-12-26T13:11:07","slug":"shakur-stevenson-says-he-will-only-fight-one-man-for-500m-i-dont-plan-on-letting-him-beat-me","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/370042\/","title":{"rendered":"Shakur Stevenson says he will only fight one man for $500m: “I don’t plan on letting him beat me”"},"content":{"rendered":"

Shakur Stevenson<\/a> has been championed for his \u2018take on all-comers\u2019 approach and his willingness to accept the toughest possible fights, although that willingness is not often reciprocated. However, there is one man that the Newark sensation has no interest in fighting, unless offered a huge sum of money.<\/p>\n

The 28-year-old southpaw has moved through the divisions to become a three-division world champion and is now poised to advance to the super-lightweight scene and challenge Teofimo Lopez for the WBO super-lightweight world title in five weeks\u2019 time<\/a>.<\/p>\n

It remains to be seen whether Stevenson will remain at 140lbs or seek a move to the welterweight division if he successfully dethrones Lopez. Although, should he opt to remain at the weight, there is one fellow American whom he has no intentions of facing.<\/p>\n

Speaking to The Art of Dialogue<\/a>, Stevenson explained that he would not fight his good friend Keyshawn Davis, unless offered a purse that would provide him with generational wealth.<\/p>\n

\u201cI get how you might feel when you don\u2019t understand someone\u2019s relationship with somebody, but this is my brother, my right-hand man. Why am I putting on a show in front of y\u2019all, why am I fighting my brother in front of the world, that could f**k up our relationship because at the end of day I am competitive as f**k, he\u2019s competitive as f**k and there has got to be a winner and a loser.<\/p>\n

\u201cI don\u2019t plan on letting n***as beat me, I don\u2019t care who it is. So, at the end of the day, that would come in-between me and his relationship, I don\u2019t give a f**k how anybody else feels about it.<\/p>\n

\u201cUnless mother****as giving us $500m or some crazy s**t that is going to feed our families for the entire rest of our lives and the generations that come after that, then I don\u2019t give a f**k [about fighting Keyshawn], it is what it is.\u201d<\/p>\n

Davis claimed the WBO lightweight world title at the beginning of the year but missed weight ahead of a first defence against Edwin De Los Santos<\/a> in June, prompting a move up to super-lightweight.<\/p>\n

\u2018The Businessman\u2019 is yet to fight since, but is the WBO mandatory challenger in the division, meaning Stevenson may have to vacate the belt if defeats Lopez and wishes to avoid fighting Davis.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Shakur Stevenson has been championed for his \u2018take on all-comers\u2019 approach and his willingness to accept the toughest…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":347814,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[447],"tags":[703,49,48,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-370042","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-boxing","8":"tag-boxing","9":"tag-ca","10":"tag-canada","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/370042","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=370042"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/370042\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/347814"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=370042"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=370042"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=370042"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}