{"id":361317,"date":"2026-01-09T18:12:07","date_gmt":"2026-01-09T18:12:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/361317\/"},"modified":"2026-01-09T18:12:07","modified_gmt":"2026-01-09T18:12:07","slug":"floyd-mayweather-rates-gervonta-davis-and-shakur-stevenson-hands-down","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/361317\/","title":{"rendered":"Floyd Mayweather rates Gervonta Davis and Shakur Stevenson: “Hands down”"},"content":{"rendered":"

Gervonta Davis<\/a> and Shakur Stevenson<\/a> have spent the last few years attempting to emulate some of the success that Floyd Mayweather achieved.<\/p>\n

Mayweather was once a dominant world champion at 135lbs, with Davis and Stevenson both now arguably in that same category, with \u2018Tank\u2019 the reigning WBA champion while Shakur holds the WBC belt.<\/p>\n

The American duo are also multiple-weight world champions like Mayweather, as Davis has held gold at super-featherweight and super-lightweight, while Stevenson first became world champion at featherweight and claimed world honours at super-featherweight too.<\/p>\n

Stevenson now looks to conquer another division when he challenges WBO super-lightweight champion Teofimo Lopez later this month<\/a>, but it\u2019s currently unknown what is next for Davis, as he looks to bounce back following a difficult 2025.<\/p>\n

The turbulent year saw \u2018Tank\u2019 draw with Lamont Roach and then have a planned exhibition with Jake Paul cancelled<\/a> due to domestic allegations.<\/p>\n

A fight between Davis and Stevenson has been speculated for years but has never been able to come to fruition, and now Mayweather has revealed<\/a> exactly what he thinks of the two fighters.<\/p>\n

\u201cAs of right now the biggest puncher at 135 is Gervonta, but the most skilful fighter at 135 would be hands down Shakur Stevenson.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s really all about skills. Pernell Whittaker wasn\u2019t a huge puncher but he was very exciting, very tough and he fought everybody. Shakur is trying to do the same thing.\u201d<\/p>\n

Mayweather guided the career of Davis for a number of years, before the pair parted ways several years ago, leading to a feud between the two.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Gervonta Davis and Shakur Stevenson have spent the last few years attempting to emulate some of the success…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":361318,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[2560,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-361317","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\/361317","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=361317"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/361317\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/361318"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=361317"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=361317"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=361317"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}