{"id":684594,"date":"2026-07-10T17:26:08","date_gmt":"2026-07-10T17:26:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/684594\/"},"modified":"2026-07-10T17:26:08","modified_gmt":"2026-07-10T17:26:08","slug":"shakur-stevenson-zuffa-boxing-sign-four-weight-world-champion-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/684594\/","title":{"rendered":"Shakur Stevenson: Zuffa Boxing sign four-weight world champion"},"content":{"rendered":"

Four-division world champion Shakur Stevenson has signed a deal with Zuffa Boxing, the promotion’s president Dana White has confirmed.<\/p>\n

The 29-year-old American, who has won all 25 of his professional fights, last fought in February when he beat Teofimo Lopez for the WBO light-welterweight belt.<\/p>\n

After the bout he called for a matchup<\/a> with Britain’s Conor Benn, who is also signed to Zuffa Boxing.<\/p>\n

“Line them up, one by one, and I’ll beat all the top guys once I get them in front of me,” Stevenson said. <\/p>\n

“With Zuffa Boxing, I’m going to go after the biggest fights in the sport and I will become the number one pound-for-pound fighter in the world.”<\/p>\n

Stevenson previously secured world titles at lightweight, featherweight and super-featherweight, while he also won bantamweight silver at the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro.<\/p>\n

“Shakur is one of the best pound-for-pound fighters in the world,” added White. <\/p>\n

“This is a massive signing for Zuffa Boxing, and I’m looking forward to promoting this next fight.”<\/p>\n

Founded by White and backed by Saudi Arabian funding, Zuffa Boxing is looking to rival the sport’s established promoters.<\/p>\n

It made its first big noise when it signed British welterweight Benn in a dramatic move from Eddie Hearn’s Matchroom stable in February.<\/p>\n

Zuffa Boxing has since signed multiple boxers, including IBF cruiserweight world champion Jai Opetaia,<\/a> who was stripped of his IBF cruiserweight world title after the move.<\/p>\n

It remains to be seen if Stevenson will have his belts taken off him.<\/p>\n

White and Zuffa Boxing seek to amend the Muhammad Ali Reform Act in the US to allow them to operate a UFC-style business model in boxing, which will include being allowed to operate as a promoter and sanctioning body and have their own world champions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Four-division world champion Shakur Stevenson has signed a deal with Zuffa Boxing, the promotion’s president Dana White has…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":684223,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[2560,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-684594","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\/684594","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=684594"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/684594\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/684223"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=684594"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=684594"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=684594"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}