{"id":443952,"date":"2026-02-25T01:36:06","date_gmt":"2026-02-25T01:36:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/443952\/"},"modified":"2026-02-25T01:36:06","modified_gmt":"2026-02-25T01:36:06","slug":"shakur-stevenson-answers-whether-he-would-fight-floyd-mayweather-after-shock-comeback","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/443952\/","title":{"rendered":"Shakur Stevenson answers whether he would fight Floyd Mayweather after shock comeback"},"content":{"rendered":"

Floyd Mayweather is set to return to professional boxing this year and pound-for-pound superstar Shakur Stevenson<\/a> has revealed whether he would be willing to take on the 49-year-old, five division champion.<\/p>\n

\u2018TBE\u2019 hung up the gloves with a perfect 50-0 record back in 2017 after a knockout victory in a lucrative showdown with Conor McGregor, but Mayweather has continued to box in exhibition bouts ever since and has repeatedly warned that he may return to the professional scene.<\/p>\n

Having watched the comeback of rival Manny Pacquiao<\/a> from the sidelines, it was revealed on Friday night that Mayweather will end a near nine-year retirement<\/a> and return to the pinnacle of the fight game this summer.<\/p>\n

His return will indeed come against former foe Pacquiao, after it was announced on Monday that the pair are set to meet in a rematch at the Sphere in Las Vegas in September, with the event broadcast live on Netflix.<\/p>\n

After hearing the news of Mayweather\u2019s return, Stevenson shot down any chances of him fighting the boxing legend down the line, admitting in an interview with DAZN<\/a> that he doesn\u2019t want to face somebody that \u2018he looks up to\u2019.<\/p>\n

\u201cHell no, [I wouldn\u2019t fight Floyd]. Understand this, I would not fight Floyd because I have watched him for years and years and years, and I look up to him.<\/p>\n

\u201cI don\u2019t want to be in the ring with somebody that I look up to and no disrespect but he is older now, so I\u2019m not trying to punch on my GOAT.\u201d<\/p>\n

Before revisiting his rivalry with \u2018Pac Man\u2019, Mayweather is set for an exhibition bout against heavyweight icon Mike Tyson<\/a>, as the two legends are set to collide in the Democratic Republic of Congo in April<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Floyd Mayweather is set to return to professional boxing this year and pound-for-pound superstar Shakur Stevenson has revealed…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":443953,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[2560,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-443952","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\/443952","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=443952"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/443952\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/443953"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=443952"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=443952"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=443952"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}