Shakur Stevenson sat down with his mentor Andre Ward to talk about navigating the politics of boxing, and specifically touched on his issue with the WBC, who stripped him of their lightweight title over a dispute about sanctioning fees. Stevenson says he couldn\u2019t bring himself to dish out a significant amount of money to them for a fight that weren\u2019t even involved in, and believes they were really just taking out their frustrations with Terence Crawford on him.<\/p>\n
\u201cI want to say [the WBC wanted] triple of what I had to pay for my fight with Zepeda,\u201d Stevenson said. \u201cAfter the fight you need to pay [sanctioning fees] so I paid that and then for Teo fight they tried to triple it [but it wasn\u2019t a WBC title fight]\u2026Basically they kept sending emails back and forth to my team\u2026I guess we was slow responsive to them [as I was in training camp] and we responded to them but I already knew beforehand they was going to strip me.<\/p>\n
\u201cI was cool with it because I know at the end of the day this ain\u2019t right, so the side that I\u2019m on is I want to be on the right side of things and I\u2019m not paying nobody that much money if you don\u2019t have nothing to do with my fight. What am I paying you for? This is a WBO sanctioned fight for me and Teo at a different weight class, so why would I pay you any money?<\/p>\n
\u201cSo I just felt they was trying to rob me, but truthfully I feel like their issue is more so with Bud, because this didn\u2019t happen and they didn\u2019t come to us with this until they started having issues with Bud Crawford and I feel that wasn\u2019t right either. Because if me and you, Mauricio, all these people at the WBC got a relationship and we cool, why are you taking out your beef you got with Bud, on me? I just don\u2019t respect it.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Shakur Stevenson sat down with his mentor Andre Ward to talk about navigating the politics of boxing, and…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":644527,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[2560,6102,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-644526","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-boxing","tag-boxing","tag-boxing-news","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/644526","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=644526"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/644526\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/644527"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=644526"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=644526"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=644526"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}