{"id":683561,"date":"2026-07-10T03:45:08","date_gmt":"2026-07-10T03:45:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/683561\/"},"modified":"2026-07-10T03:45:08","modified_gmt":"2026-07-10T03:45:08","slug":"shakur-stevenson-announces-new-promotional-deal-im-going-after-the-biggest-and-best-fights","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/683561\/","title":{"rendered":"Shakur Stevenson announces new promotional deal: “I’m going after the biggest and best fights”"},"content":{"rendered":"

Shakur Stevenson<\/a> has finally made a major decision regarding his boxing future.<\/p>\n

There has been much speculation over Stevenson\u2019s next move over the past few months, dating back to when he successfully stepped up to 140lbs and defeated Teofimo Lopez to win the WBO super-lightweight title.<\/a><\/p>\n

The likes of Devin Haney and O\u2019Shaquie Foster have been named as possible options<\/a>, and a decision on his upcoming opponent should be expected soon after his new promotional deal was announced.<\/p>\n

That\u2019s because Stevenson has made the decision to sign with Dana White\u2019s Zuffa Boxing, and the four-weight world champion believes that will lead him to becoming the pound-for-pound king.<\/p>\n

\u201cLine them up, one by one, and I\u2019ll beat all the top guys once I get them in front of me. With Zuffa Boxing, I\u2019m going to go after the biggest fights in the sport and I will become the number one pound-for-pound fighter in the world.\u201d<\/p>\n

Zuffa chief White also spoke out about the acquisition of Stevenson.<\/p>\n

\u201cShakur is one of the best pound-for-pound fighters in the world. He\u2019s 29 years old, undefeated and already a four-division world champion. This is a massive signing for Zuffa Boxing, and I\u2019m looking forward to promoting this next fight.\u201d<\/p>\n

Three-weight world champion Haney has been linked to signing with Zuffa in recent months, so it could now pave the way for the two fighters to meet, though \u2018The Dream\u2019 would have to vacate his WBO welterweight title in order to avoid a mandatory defence against Keyshawn Davis.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Shakur Stevenson has finally made a major decision regarding his boxing future. There has been much speculation over…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":670369,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[2560,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-683561","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\/683561","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=683561"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/683561\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/670369"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=683561"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=683561"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=683561"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}