{"id":445337,"date":"2026-02-25T19:38:08","date_gmt":"2026-02-25T19:38:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/445337\/"},"modified":"2026-02-25T19:38:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-25T19:38:08","slug":"shakur-stevenson-says-only-one-active-fighter-is-near-his-level-thats-the-guy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/445337\/","title":{"rendered":"Shakur Stevenson says only one active fighter is near his level: “That’s the guy”"},"content":{"rendered":"

Shakur Stevenson<\/a>\u2019s super-lightweight world title win has seen him rise up the pound-for-pound rankings but when asked his own opinion, Stevenson offered a surprise pick for the man who rivals him as the best fighter in the sport.<\/p>\n

Stevenson dominated Teofimo Lopez to claim the WBO super-lightweight crown last month, becoming the third-youngest four-division champion in boxing history in a coming of age display that has forced the world of boxing to take notice of his skills.<\/p>\n

Following the retirement of Terence Crawford, fans are beginning to deliberate as to whether Stevenson can challenge Oleksandr Usyk and Naoya Inoue for the spot as boxing\u2019s pound-for-pound number one<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Although, without an undisputed title to his name, it will be difficult for the Newark southpaw to penetrate the top two.<\/p>\n

Yet, when asked which fighter could be his main rival in the sport, Stevenson told \u2018Inside The Ring\u2019 that the man who can compete with him is one whom he will never fight, good friend and former WBO lightweight champion, Keyshawn Davis.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhat\u2019s sad is the guy that you\u2019re looking for, that you\u2019re talking about, is somebody that I came up with. We been helping each other for years.<\/p>\n

\u201cMe and Keyshawn Davis are the best boxers in the sport right now, if you ask me. It\u2019ll never happen, but honestly if you\u2019re asking for the other guy, that\u2019s the guy.\u201d<\/p>\n

Davis currently sits as the number one super-lightweight contender with the WBO, but champion Stevenson has maintained that it would take half a billion dollars for him to take on \u2018The Businessman\u2019<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The WBO are unlikely to order that contest anytime soon, given Lopez fulfilled a mandatory defence of the title when he defeated Arnold Barboza Jr. last May.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Shakur Stevenson\u2019s super-lightweight world title win has seen him rise up the pound-for-pound rankings but when asked his…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":445338,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[2560,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-445337","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\/445337","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=445337"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/445337\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/445338"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=445337"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=445337"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=445337"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}