Many within the sport consider Shakur Stevenson may retire undefeated, following within the footsteps of his good friend Terence Crawford. Stevenson himself is actually satisfied that would be the case.
A four-division world champion at 28 years outdated, Stevenson’s most up-to-date triumph got here towards Teofimo Lopez within the super-lightweight ranks. After some questioned whether or not the transfer up in weight would value the Newark southpaw his trademark elusiveness, he as a substitute placed on a clinic, profitable nearly each spherical towards Lopez, who has beforehand overwhelmed nice champions in Vasiliy Lomachenko and Josh Taylor.
He now holds the WBO belt at 140lbs, and has choices there, up and down. Although stripped of the WBC belt at light-weight, Stevenson has not dominated out a drop again down. There are intriguing defences or unifications for him to make the place he’s, and it’s seemingly he’ll in the end transfer as much as welterweight, although he has pumped the brakes on speak of doing that too quickly.
With names like Gervonta Davis, Devin Haney and Ryan Garcia all within the combine, the talk now centres on not who can beat Stevenson, however who may even take a look at him.
In his thoughts, no one can – and he informed Cigar Speak lately that his hardest battle has already occurred.
“It ain’t going to occur [somebody having a close fight against me]. Probably the most y’all ever going to get is Zepeda – that was y’all’s greatest hope and likelihood at getting resistance.
“His fashion, kinds make fights. The fashion that might give me probably the most resistance can be the man who throws one million punches a spherical, and doesn’t cease punching.”
Shakur efficiently defended his light-weight strap towards Mexico’s Zepeda in July of 2025. Motivated by criticism of his defensive fashion, he took a special strategy and fought a lot of the battle within the pocket. It proved to be entertaining, however was a dangerous technique towards one of many sport’s highest quantity punchers who boasts 27 knockouts in 33 wins.
Regardless of being caught on the ropes on a few events, Stevenson nonetheless got here away profitable clearly on all three judges’ scorecards and, in his thoughts, bulletproof from any future problem.
