{"id":323864,"date":"2025-12-19T02:13:07","date_gmt":"2025-12-19T02:13:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/323864\/"},"modified":"2025-12-19T02:13:07","modified_gmt":"2025-12-19T02:13:07","slug":"benn-wants-20m-for-shakur-fight-with-rehydration-clause","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/323864\/","title":{"rendered":"Benn Wants $20M For Shakur Fight With Rehydration Clause"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cIf he wants a rehydration clause, pay me $20 million, and I might consider it. $20 million, that\u2019s the number, but I would be happy to give him a beating for free as well,\u201d said Conor Benn to Ring Magazine on <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/ringmagazine\/status\/2001714275849474162\" rel=\"nofollow\">X<\/a>, reacting to Shakur Stevenson saying he would want a 10-lb rehydration clause if he were to fight him.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe ain\u2019t calling not shots,\u201d said Conor.<\/p>\n<p>Shakur, 28, is getting ahead of himself by talking about a potential fight against Conor Benn at 147 in 2026. He still needs to win his fight against WBO 140-lb champion Teofimo Lopez on January 31st before he can start talking about fighting other guys.<\/p>\n<p>That fight is far from a sure-thing win for Stevenson, as he lacks power, even at 135. Going up to light welterweight could make his lack of punching power even more pronounced. He looked weak in his fight against William Zepeda last July and spent most of the fight with his back pinned to the ropes.<\/p>\n<p>It was a strange fight in which Stevenson was riddled with punches from Zepeda, and occasionally he would land a return shot.<\/p>\n<p>Assuming Shakur does defeat Teofimo, he\u2019s going to have to decide how badly he wants the Conor Benn fight. His demand for a 10-lb rehydration clause doesn\u2019t sound like it\u2019s going to be agreed upon. Beating Teo isn\u2019t going to raise Shakur\u2019s popularity enough for him to demand a weight handicap and expect it to be given to him against Benn.<\/p>\n<p>For Stevenson\u2019s popularity to rise significantly, he\u2019s going to need to beat the dangerous 140-pounders, like Gary Antuanne Russell, Ernesto Mercado, and Subriel Matias. If he can beat those types of fighters, he\u2019d be in a better position to call the shots in a fight against Benn to demand a weight handicap.<\/p>\n<p>Tom Galm has covered the global boxing scene since 2014, specializing in heavyweight analysis, business trends, and fighter psychology.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cIf he wants a rehydration clause, pay me $20 million, and I might consider it. $20 million, that\u2019s&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":267345,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[2560,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-323864","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\/323864","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=323864"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/323864\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/267345"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=323864"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=323864"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=323864"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}