{"id":402353,"date":"2026-02-01T13:50:06","date_gmt":"2026-02-01T13:50:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/402353\/"},"modified":"2026-02-01T13:50:06","modified_gmt":"2026-02-01T13:50:06","slug":"shakur-stevenson-says-he-will-only-fight-conor-benn-under-one-condition-after-call-out","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/402353\/","title":{"rendered":"Shakur Stevenson says he will only fight Conor Benn under one condition after call out"},"content":{"rendered":"

Following his exceptional victory over Teofimo Lopez, Shakur Stevenson quickly announced that he wants to move up yet another weight class to face Conor Benn.<\/p>\n

Stevenson forced himself into the number one pound-for-pound conversation over twelve, expert rounds against Lopez at super-lightweight,<\/a> dominating \u2018The Takeover\u2019 with timing, countering and one of the best jabs in the business.<\/p>\n

Whilst Stevenson sticking around at 140lbs is an exciting prospect for fans, he engaged in a face-off with Benn post-fight, fuelling an unlikely but already brewing rivalry. The newly crowned champion said:<\/p>\n

\u201cWe can get it banging boy. I want that same rehydration clause you put on [Chris] Eubank Jr and I want the fight. My skills are too much. Sign the contract, let\u2019s make it happen.\u201d<\/p>\n

Benn \u2014 who fought Eubank Jr twice at middleweight<\/a> but has made it clear he will drop back down to welterweight for his next fight \u2014 was receptive to the challenge.<\/p>\n

However, when Stevenson was informed at the press conference that Benn said no to a rehydration clause of 10lbs, he said that it was a dealbreaker.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf he\u2019s not gonna agree then we probably won\u2019t fight. So he\u2019s just wasting time. We\u2019ll see. I\u2019m a businessman at the end of the day. Like I said, he did a rehydration clause with Chris Eubank, Chris Eubank was in the ring half-dead. Why can\u2019t he do the same thing?\u201d<\/p>\n

How talks progress remains to be seen. Benn, having become a big star in the UK with his rematch win over Eubank following defeat in the first, has also been linked with both Rolando Romero<\/a> or the winner of Mario Barrio vs Ryan Garcia.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Following his exceptional victory over Teofimo Lopez, Shakur Stevenson quickly announced that he wants to move up yet…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":402354,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[2560,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-402353","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\/402353","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=402353"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/402353\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/402354"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=402353"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=402353"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=402353"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}