{"id":690241,"date":"2026-07-14T00:49:08","date_gmt":"2026-07-14T00:49:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/690241\/"},"modified":"2026-07-14T00:49:08","modified_gmt":"2026-07-14T00:49:08","slug":"shakur-stevenson-predicts-prime-oscar-de-la-hoya-vs-gervonta-tank-davis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/690241\/","title":{"rendered":"Shakur Stevenson predicts prime Oscar De La Hoya vs Gervonta &#8216;Tank&#8217; Davis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/boxingnewsonline.net\/boxer\/shakur-stevenson\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Shakur Stevenson<\/a> has been linked to a showdown with <a href=\"https:\/\/boxingnewsonline.net\/boxer\/gervonta-davis\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Gervonta Davis<\/a> throughout his career but now the Newark southpaw has predicted how his rival would fare against one of the greats of the sport in <a href=\"https:\/\/boxingnewsonline.net\/boxer\/oscar-de-la-hoya\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Oscar De La Hoya<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Stevenson and Davis each held world titles in the lightweight division as recently as February, but Stevenson was then stripped of his WBC crown due to unpaid sanctioning fees and <a href=\"https:\/\/boxingnewsonline.net\/news\/wba-decision-on-davis-champion-status\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">\u2018Tank\u2019 was recently demoted to the WBA\u2019s \u2018champion-in-recess\u2019<\/a> because of prolonged inactivity.<\/p>\n<p>Any hope of seeing the fight is now beginning to dwindle, with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/boxing\/story\/_\/id\/49317660\/zuffa-boxing-adds-shakur-stevenson-landmark-signing\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Stevenson having signed with Zuffa Boxing<\/a>, whilst Davis is expected to remain sidelined until early 2027, meaning if the pair are to ever fight, it is unlikely to be anytime soon.<\/p>\n<p>Despite that, Stevenson still clearly holds his rival in high regard, as when discussing hypothetical encounters in an interview with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tiktok.com\/@dailymailsport\/video\/7655332752635481366?is_from_webapp=1&amp;sender_device=pc\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Daily Mail Sport<\/a>, he picked the Baltimore-born knockout artist to trump a prime De La Hoya, who is one of just two fighters in boxing history to have ruled in six divisions.<\/p>\n<p>De La Hoya fought as a lightweight for just over a year-and-a-half and is better known for his reign as welterweight champion, where he overcame the likes of Pernell Whittaker, H\u00e9ctor Camacho and Julio C\u00e9sar Ch\u00e1vez.<\/p>\n<p>Although, whilst Stevenson also picked Davis to overcome stars such as Vasyl Lomachenko and \u2018Sugar\u2019 Shane Mosley, he felt as though a meeting with pound-for-pound sensation <a href=\"https:\/\/boxingnewsonline.net\/boxer\/terence-crawford\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Terence Crawford<\/a> would prove to be a step too far for the undefeated three-division conqueror.<\/p>\n<p>                                            <script async src=\"\/\/www.tiktok.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Shakur Stevenson has been linked to a showdown with Gervonta Davis throughout his career but now the Newark&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":690242,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[2560,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-690241","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\/690241","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=690241"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/690241\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/690242"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=690241"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=690241"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=690241"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}