{"id":729666,"date":"2026-08-06T19:48:12","date_gmt":"2026-08-06T19:48:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/729666\/"},"modified":"2026-08-06T19:48:12","modified_gmt":"2026-08-06T19:48:12","slug":"shakur-stevenson-names-the-one-man-he-wishes-he-could-have-faced-no-question","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/729666\/","title":{"rendered":"Shakur Stevenson names the one man he wishes he could have faced: “No question”"},"content":{"rendered":"

Shakur Stevenson<\/a> is currently plotting his next move but if he could step into the ring with any boxing legend, he knows who it would be.<\/p>\n

Stevenson became a four-weight world champion back in January when he defeated Teofimo Lopez by unanimous decision<\/a> to win the WBO super-lightweight belt.<\/p>\n

Since then, he has been linked to a number of opponents, including the likes of Devin Haney and O\u2019Shaquie Foster<\/a>, but as of yet no announcement has been made on an upcoming fight.<\/p>\n

Stevenson himself has now revealed the one man he wishes he would have got a chance to fight though, telling the Ball In The Family Podcast<\/a> that he would have loved the chance to test himself against Floyd Mayweather.<\/p>\n

\u201cFloyd Mayweather. No question. Only reason why I say him though is because to me he was one of the smartest fighters I ever seen. I feel like my pedigree of IQ, me in front of him, who would be able to out-think each other. To me that interests me.\u201d<\/p>\n

Mayweather\u2019s incredible career speaks for itself, retiring with a perfect 50-0 record having claimed world honours in five divisions.<\/p>\n

During that time he picked up victories over fighters such as Oscar De La Hoya<\/a>, Canelo Alvarez<\/a> and Manny Pacquiao<\/a>, with the bout against the Filipino smashing the gate and pay-per-view records.<\/p>\n

Nearly a decade on from hanging up the gloves, Mayweather was set to meet Pacquiao again in a rematch in September<\/a>, but the bout was postponed and now may happen in early 2027.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Shakur Stevenson is currently plotting his next move but if he could step into the ring with any…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":729667,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[2560,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-729666","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\/729666","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=729666"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/729666\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/729667"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=729666"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=729666"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=729666"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}