{"id":767800,"date":"2026-09-12T00:10:09","date_gmt":"2026-09-12T00:10:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/767800\/"},"modified":"2026-09-12T00:10:09","modified_gmt":"2026-09-12T00:10:09","slug":"shakur-stevenson-has-60-days-to-face-mandatory-or-risk-losing-his-world-title","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/767800\/","title":{"rendered":"Shakur Stevenson has 60 days to face mandatory or risk losing his world title"},"content":{"rendered":"

Shakur Stevenson<\/a> is set to be presented with an official mandatory challenger after being afforded a 60-day window to defend his WBO title.<\/p>\n

The American claimed his super-lightweight belt in January, dethroning Teofimo Lopez with a unanimous decision victory<\/a> to become a four-division world champion.<\/p>\n

In doing so, Stevenson also positioned himself as one of the sport\u2019s leading pound-for-pound stars, earning him the opportunity to sign a lucrative promotional deal with Dana White\u2019s Zuffa Boxing<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Since putting pen to paper earlier this year, though, the 29-year-old is yet to announce a date, location or opponent for his next outing.<\/p>\n

This is in spite of the fact that Stevenson could soon be ordered to make a mandatory title defence, with former world champion Raymond Muratalla having become the WBO\u2019s leading contender at 140lbs.<\/p>\n

The 29-year-old comes off a unanimous decision victory over Robson Conceicao last month, which followed his successful lightweight title defence against Andy Cruz in January.<\/p>\n

Having now vacated his IBF belt, Muratalla could emerge as a likely opponent for Stevenson who, according to journalist Carlos Linares<\/a>, will be ordered to make a mandatory title defence in less than 60 days.<\/p>\n

\u201cWBO president Gustavo Olivieri revealed on [Anderson Pereza\u2019s] \u201cModo Boxeo Podcast\u201d that Shakur Stevenson has been notified in writing that he has fewer than 60 days to fulfil his mandatory defence obligation.<\/p>\n

\u201cAlso, [Olivieri] declared that the next step would be a formal order from the WBO. The opponent being considered is [Muratalla], who is now ranked No. 1 by the WBO at 140[lbs].\u201d<\/p>\n

If he wishes to defend his WBO title, it is likely that Stevenson will be offered a grace period to negotiate terms with Muratalla.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Shakur Stevenson is set to be presented with an official mandatory challenger after being afforded a 60-day window…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":767801,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[2560,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-767800","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\/767800","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=767800"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/767800\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/767801"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=767800"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=767800"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=767800"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}