First Round TV<\/a>, Hearn first discussed what lies ahead for Shakur.<\/p>\n\u201cWe\u2019ve got to make sure Shakur gets the chance to fight all of those elite guys within his era \u2026 I\u2019m talking Devin Haney, unifications if he stays at 140 \u2013 Gary Russell, Dalton Smith, Richardson Hitchins \u2013 other fighters [like] Schofield, Muratalla. You\u2019d pick him against everybody.\u201d<\/p>\n
Asked specifically about Benn \u2013 a name he didn\u2019t mention in his list \u2013 the promoter admitted it was \u2018a very difficult fight\u2019 for his welterweight charge.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019m looking at that fight as someone who represents Conor Benn, I\u2019m thinking the only bit I like in that fight is the size. Cause Conor has a big, big size advantage and he will punch a lot harder than Shakur. But, it\u2019s Shakur. It\u2019s a very difficult fight. Conor\u2019s just out of control on smoke and wants everybody \u2026 For me, I want to see him win a world title.\u201d<\/p>\n
Benn looks more likely to face either Rolando Romero \u2013 though the mandatory challenge of Shakhram Giyasov still stands in the way \u2013 or the winner of Mario Barrios vs Ryan Garcia later this month.<\/p>\n
As for Stevenson, with his lightweight world title now vacant,<\/a> he is likely to remain at 140lbs, and has expressed an interest in facing Isaac \u2018Pitbull\u2019 Cruz. A welterweight move, however, for Benn, Haney or Garcia, remains on the table.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Eddie Hearn recently witnessed one of his major British stars, Conor Benn, call out perhaps the best defensive…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":419885,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[2560,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-419884","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\/419884","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=419884"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/419884\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/419885"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=419884"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=419884"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=419884"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}