{"id":514271,"date":"2026-03-04T18:43:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-04T18:43:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/514271\/"},"modified":"2026-03-04T18:43:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-04T18:43:08","slug":"wbc-order-world-title-fight-for-shakur-stevensons-stripped-belt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/514271\/","title":{"rendered":"WBC order world title fight for Shakur Stevenson&#8217;s stripped belt"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/boxingnewsonline.net\/boxer\/shakur-stevenson\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Shakur Stevenson<\/a> was stripped of his WBC lightweight world title last month and soon the 135lb division is will crown a new champion.<\/p>\n<p>Stevenson jumped up to 140lbs in order to challenge Teofimo Lopez for the WBO super-lightweight world title, but had not ruled out a return to lightweight in an attempt to become the undisputed champion.<\/p>\n<p>However, shortly after <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/boxing\/story\/_\/id\/47794526\/stevenson-seizes-lopez-title-become-four-division-champion\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Stevenson defeated Lopez<\/a> to become boxing\u2019s third-youngest four-division world champion, the WBC ruled, controversially, to announce the lightweight strap as vacant. <a href=\"https:\/\/boxingnewsonline.net\/news\/wbc-president-on-shakur-stevenson\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">President Mauricio Sulaiman said Stevenson had not followed the correct process to fight for another belt in a new division and had also not paid a sanctioning fee.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/youtube.com\/shorts\/fUhpCYckweg?si=B4kRa7TYKDYGLfVb\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Sulaiman has now informed I\u00f1aky Arzate<\/a> that the WBC have decided to order a fight between former WBC Interim titleholder William Zepeda and former WBA super-featherweight ruler Lamont Roach Jr.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c[Translated from Spanish] The WBC held a vote, there will a spectacular fight between the Mexican, \u2018Camaron\u2019 Zepeda, who will be fighting against Roach, who had two draws in his last two, one against \u2018Pitbull\u2019 Cruz. It will be a title fight for the vacant WBC lightweight world title.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>News of the WBC\u2019s decision is sure to frustrate current WBC Interim champion Jadier Herrera, who was expected by many to be first in line for a shot at the vacant belt, if not elevated to full world champion.<\/p>\n<p>The Cuban southpaw will become the mandatory challenger for the victor of Zepeda-Roach if it takes place, with the Gilberto Ramirez vs. David Benavidez undercard on Saturday May 2, being one possible location for the ordered contest.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Shakur Stevenson was stripped of his WBC lightweight world title last month and soon the 135lb division is&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":514272,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[447],"tags":[703,49,48,82],"class_list":["post-514271","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\/514271","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=514271"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/514271\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/514272"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=514271"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=514271"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=514271"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}