{"id":319335,"date":"2025-12-16T16:21:05","date_gmt":"2025-12-16T16:21:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/319335\/"},"modified":"2025-12-16T16:21:05","modified_gmt":"2025-12-16T16:21:05","slug":"conor-benn-offered-shakur-stevenson-fight-under-one-condition-i-want-that","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/319335\/","title":{"rendered":"Conor Benn offered Shakur Stevenson fight under one condition: “I want that”"},"content":{"rendered":"

Conor Benn<\/a> has been called out for a lucrative showdown in 2026 by master technician Shakur Stevenson<\/p>\n

The 29-year-old Brit comes off a dominant performance against Chris Eubank Jr<\/a>, exacting his revenge with a wide points victory in their middleweight rematch last month.<\/p>\n

Both of their encounters, however, included the same weight stipulation: a 170lb rehydration limit for the morning of fight night.<\/p>\n

For Eubank, this represented a tremendous hurdle, and despite winning their showdown in April via a unanimous decision, he ultimately looked a shadow of his former self in their vastly one-sided rematch.<\/p>\n

Benn, meanwhile, has since insisted that his next outing will be back down at welterweight, where he now boasts a number-one ranking with the WBC<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Naturally, \u2018The Destroyer\u2019 has expressed his interest in facing the winner of WBC champion Mario Barrios vs Ryan Garcia<\/a>, which is expected to take place early next year.<\/p>\n

He is less keen on challenging world champion Lewis Crocker, whose IBF title means that he would be subjected to a fight-day rehydration limit of 157lbs.<\/p>\n

This would put Benn at a similar disadvantage to what Eubank experienced, with the 10lbs rehydration policy hardly representing an appealing proposition.<\/p>\n

Benn has now been offered similar terms by WBC lightweight champion Shakur Stevenson<\/a>, who insists he would want a rehydration clause in place for their potential clash \u2014 one both men have expressed interest in.<\/p>\n

Speaking with Ariel Helwani<\/a>, Stevenson said he would be open to facing Benn after his fight with WBO super-lightweight champion Teofimo Lopez on January 31<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think it can happen. I think that should be maybe next, after Teo \u2013 God willing I go do what I gotta do [against Lopez].<\/p>\n

I want a rehydration clause, though. The weight I feel [most comfortable] at is 135[lbs] but, how high [can I go?] Probably 147[lbs].<\/p>\n

I\u2019m just fighting off skills. When I move up [to 147lbs], I\u2019m so little that my skills are just going to take control.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Conor Benn has been called out for a lucrative showdown in 2026 by master technician Shakur Stevenson The…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":319336,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[2560,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-319335","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-boxing","tag-boxing","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/319335","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=319335"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/319335\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/319336"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=319335"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=319335"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=319335"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}