{"id":409091,"date":"2026-02-05T10:24:07","date_gmt":"2026-02-05T10:24:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/409091\/"},"modified":"2026-02-05T10:24:07","modified_gmt":"2026-02-05T10:24:07","slug":"derek-chisora-sees-clear-winner-in-shakur-stevenson-vs-conor-benn-at-147-he-gets-messed-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/409091\/","title":{"rendered":"Derek Chisora sees clear winner in Shakur Stevenson vs Conor Benn at 147: “He gets messed up”"},"content":{"rendered":"

Following a stellar showing on Saturday night, Shakur Stevenson<\/a> is now being linked to a welterweight debut on British soil against Conor Benn<\/a> and Derek Chisora<\/a> has had his say on how he believes that scrap would unfold.<\/p>\n

Stevenson beat Teofimo Lopez handily to become the WBO super-lightweight world champion and begin a new reign in a fourth weight-division at just 28 years old.<\/p>\n

However, it is expected that Stevenson\u2019s time as super-lightweight champion will soon come to an end, having previously declared his desires to return to the lightweight scene and fight in title unifications.<\/p>\n

Despite those prior comments, it was Benn\u2019s name on the lips of Stevenson<\/a> after his dominant display against Lopez, surprisingly calling for a clash with the Briton, who is poised to return to the welterweight division in the coming months following a four-year absence from 147lbs.<\/p>\n

In an interview with FightHype.com<\/a>, Chisora welcomed the fight but admitted that it would likely be a \u2018whitewash\u2019 victory for the American.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s Shakur Stevenson. I love Conor, Conor is my brother, but it\u2019s a whitewash. Conor has got pressure and all of this but, if your legs are not in the right space with a southpaw, you\u2019re going to get f***ed up. You\u2019re going to get beat.<\/p>\n

\u201cI would love that fight to happen, Shakur needs to come to London and fight Conor. It would be a good fight, huge.\u201d<\/p>\n

Benn hopes to get his hands on a welterweight world title in his next fight, but it remains to be seen whether he will opt for the victor of Mario Barrios vs. Ryan Garcia and the WBC route<\/a>, or take on WBA champion Rolando Romero.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Following a stellar showing on Saturday night, Shakur Stevenson is now being linked to a welterweight debut on…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":409092,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[2560,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-409091","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\/409091","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=409091"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/409091\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/409092"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=409091"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=409091"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=409091"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}