{"id":793040,"date":"2026-07-10T15:34:17","date_gmt":"2026-07-10T15:34:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/793040\/"},"modified":"2026-07-10T15:34:17","modified_gmt":"2026-07-10T15:34:17","slug":"shakur-stevenson-explains-zuffa-signing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/793040\/","title":{"rendered":"Shakur Stevenson explains Zuffa signing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup _1bij9g78 _1mt21p01\">\u201cI\u2019m in the money-getting business,\u201d Stevenson told ESPN on Thursday. Without getting into specifics on the financial details of his deal, Stevenson simply said \u201cthe money is insane.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">Stevenson would also clarify that he doesn\u2019t expect that this signing will preclude him from making the notable fights he\u2019d otherwise be targeting.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup _1bij9g78 _1mt21p01\">\u201cI wouldn\u2019t have signed if I can\u2019t get the fights that I want,\u201d Stevenson said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">Stevenson assured fans that he still wants the biggest and best fights possible and he\u2019s in no way looking to take on small time matchups that won\u2019t advance his career. That said, Stevenson said he\u2019s not looking to make a run at undisputed and grab a whole bunch of belts, but rather take on the biggest prizefights the fans want to see.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">Of course if Stevenson is to participate in the fights the fans most want to see, it means Zuffa will have to step outside of their edict of self-insulation to work with other promoters who have access to the fighters Stevenson would presumably need to be matched against.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">How this all shakes out remains to be seen for the time being, but having a talent like Stevenson on their roster surely brings a little more gravitas to Zuffa.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cI\u2019m in the money-getting business,\u201d Stevenson told ESPN on Thursday. Without getting into specifics on the financial details&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":793041,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[447],"tags":[703,711,49,48,82],"class_list":["post-793040","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-boxing","tag-boxing","tag-boxing-news","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/793040","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=793040"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/793040\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/793041"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=793040"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=793040"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=793040"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}