{"id":488287,"date":"2026-02-20T19:28:07","date_gmt":"2026-02-20T19:28:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/488287\/"},"modified":"2026-02-20T19:28:07","modified_gmt":"2026-02-20T19:28:07","slug":"shakur-stevenson-agrees-to-fight-devin-haney-without-rehydration-clause-under-one-condition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/488287\/","title":{"rendered":"Shakur Stevenson agrees to fight Devin Haney without rehydration clause under one condition"},"content":{"rendered":"

Shakur Stevenson<\/a> has laid out his exact terms for a potential clash with Devin Haney<\/a>, insisting that he would be happy to fight above 140lbs.<\/p>\n

The 28-year-old claimed his WBO super-lightweight title, and became a four-division world champion, by unanimously outpointing and dethroning Teofimo Lopez last month.<\/a><\/p>\n

As a result of his dominant performance, which saw him drop just one round, many have called for the slick southpaw to test his skills at 147lbs.<\/p>\n

More specifically, WBO welterweight champion Haney has been mentioned as an intriguing option, with his size representing a significant advantage over Stevenson.<\/p>\n

The 27-year-old became a three-division world champion in November, scoring a second-round knockdown before convincingly outpointing Brian Norman Jr down the stretch<\/a>.<\/p>\n

While having previously claimed notable victories over Vasyl Lomachenko and Regis Prograis at 135 and 140lbs, respectively, Haney now seems a far more rejuvenated operator since moving up to 147lbs.<\/p>\n

If he is to face Stevenson, though, then the American may be compelled to agree to a catchweight of 144lbs, which Ryan Garcia has already highlighted as a possible option for himself.<\/p>\n

In an interview with Ring Magazine earlier this week, Garcia, who will face WBC welterweight champion Mario Barrios on Saturday, said that he would willingly sacrifice 3lbs in order to fight Stevenson.<\/p>\n

Steveson, meanwhile, has told Stephen A. Smith<\/a> that, while potentially swerving a rehydration clause, Haney must nonetheless agree to the 144lb catchweight proposed by Garcia.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think the Devin Haney fight is a big fight. I think it\u2019s just got to make sense.<\/p>\n

\u201cWith Ryan Garica, he\u2019s just said he would come down to 144lbs. So, if [Haney] comes to do that, and it makes sense, [then] let\u2019s do it.\u201d<\/p>\n

It remains to be seen whether the WBO would sanction such a contest, presenting Stevenson with the opportunity to become a five-weight world champion.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Shakur Stevenson has laid out his exact terms for a potential clash with Devin Haney, insisting that he…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":477723,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[447],"tags":[703,49,48,82],"class_list":["post-488287","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\/488287","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=488287"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/488287\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/477723"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=488287"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=488287"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=488287"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}