Shakur Stevenson’s super-lightweight world title win has seen him stand up the pound-for-pound rankings however when requested his personal opinion, Stevenson supplied a shock decide for the person who rivals him as the most effective fighter within the sport.
Stevenson dominated Teofimo Lopez to assert the WBO super-lightweight crown final month, changing into the third-youngest four-division champion in boxing historical past in a coming of age show that has compelled the world of boxing to take discover of his abilities.
Following the retirement of Terence Crawford, followers are starting to deliberate as as to whether Stevenson can problem Oleksandr Usyk and Naoya Inoue for the spot as boxing’s pound-for-pound primary.
Though, with out an undisputed title to his title, will probably be troublesome for the Newark southpaw to penetrate the highest two.
But, when requested which fighter could possibly be his foremost rival within the sport, Stevenson instructed ‘Inside The Ring’ that the person who can compete with him is one whom he won’t ever battle, good pal and former WBO light-weight champion, Keyshawn Davis.
“What’s unhappy is the man that you simply’re on the lookout for, that you simply’re speaking about, is any individual that I got here up with. We been serving to one another for years.
“Me and Keyshawn Davis are the most effective boxers within the sport proper now, if you happen to ask me. It’ll by no means occur, however truthfully if you happen to’re asking for the opposite man, that’s the man.”
Davis at present sits because the primary super-lightweight contender with the WBO, however champion Stevenson has maintained that it could take half a billion {dollars} for him to tackle ‘The Businessman’.
The WBO are unlikely to order that contest anytime quickly, given Lopez fulfilled a compulsory defence of the title when he defeated Arnold Barboza Jr. final Could.
