{"id":530640,"date":"2026-04-14T17:17:07","date_gmt":"2026-04-14T17:17:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/530640\/"},"modified":"2026-04-14T17:17:07","modified_gmt":"2026-04-14T17:17:07","slug":"shakur-stevenson-will-agree-to-devin-haney-fight-under-one-condition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/530640\/","title":{"rendered":"Shakur Stevenson will agree to Devin Haney fight under one condition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Shakur Stevenson is open to facing Devin Haney under one condition, believing they could sell out a \u201cbig arena\u201d and deliver a \u201ctremendous fight\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>The 28-year-old comes off a career-best victory over Teofimo Lopez, who he dethroned with a wide points victory to claim the WBO world super-lightweight title in January.<\/p>\n<p>In doing so, Stevenson became a four-division world champion and immediately called out Conor Benn, who unanimously outpointed Regis Prograis at 150lbs last Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>The American has also expressed an interest in facing Ryan Garcia, but only if the WBC world welterweight champion agrees to meet him at a catchweight of 144lbs.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/boxingnewsonline.net\/news\/garcia-makes-u-turn-on-stevenson-offer\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Garcia, however, appears to have rejected this as a genuine possibility<\/a>, while Stevenson has said he is in no rush to move up to welterweight at this stage in his campaign.<\/p>\n<p>This is why he has suggested the exact same catchweight for a potential clash with Haney, who comes off a unanimous decision victory over Brian Norman Jr.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018The Dream\u2019 moved up to welterweight and claimed Norman\u2019s WBO world title in November, which followed his <a href=\"https:\/\/talksport.com\/boxing\/3172975\/devin-haney-jose-ramirez-worst-fight\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">lacklustre performance against Jose Ramirez<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>But still, Haney convincingly outpointed the faded former world champion at a catchweight of 144lbs, hence why Stevenson is keen to explore their possible showdown.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking with <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/A_C3EJ6nfmU?si=SJphJPhzPRwQEAXs\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Ariel Helwani<\/a>, the pound-for-pound star highlighted this catchweight as a non-negotiable, otherwise he will likely remain at 140lbs or move back down to lightweight.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHaney fought at a catchweight against Jose Ramirez two fights ago, and it was 144lbs, so I would love to [fight Haney] at 144lbs \u2013 we can meet in the middle.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI don\u2019t think a belt has to be on the line; I think the fight is big enough for both of us to be fighting at a catchweight.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think we can both sell out a big arena, and it would be a tremendous fight.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>While Haney has previously campaigned at 135lbs, the three-weight world champion would likely struggle to make 144lbs at this stage of his career, and has even toyed with another move up to 154.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Shakur Stevenson is open to facing Devin Haney under one condition, believing they could sell out a \u201cbig&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":530641,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[2560,101,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-530640","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-boxing","8":"tag-boxing","9":"tag-sports","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/530640","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=530640"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/530640\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/530641"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=530640"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=530640"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=530640"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}