Shakur Stevenson to fight against highest available contender for WBC lightweight title
The World Boxing Council received several requests concerning its lightweight and super lightweight divisions. WBC lightweight champion Devin Haney petitioned to fight WBC super lightweight champion Regis Prograis. Haney wished to remain as WBC lightweight champion until after his fight with Prograis takes place, at which point he would decide in what division he would remain.
The WBC Board of Governors considered those requests and has arrived at the following:
- Approved Haney’s petition to fight Prograis for the WBC super lightweight world championship
- Designated Haney as champion-in-recess in the lightweight division
- Ordered a lightweight championship bout between lightweight mandatory challenger Shakur Stevenson and the highest available contender in the division
- After fighting Prograis, Haney will be allowed to choose between remaining at 135 or 140 pounds on a timetable that the WBC would order
- If Haney decides to return to the lightweight division within that timetable, the WBC will order a fight between Haney and the WBC’s current lightweight champion on a 50-50 basis
The current WBC lightweight rankings are:
1. Vasyl Lomachenko
2. Shakur Stevenson
3. Isaac Cruz Jr.
4. William Zepeda
5. Frank Martin
6. Edwin de los Santos
7. Jamaine Ortiz
8. Artem Harutyunyan
9. Shuichiro Yoshino
10. Raymond Muratalla
11. George Kambosos Jr.
12. Maxi Hughes
13. Francesco Patera
14. Michel Rivera
15. Keyshawn Davis
Who will step up against Shakur?
Where’s Tank in that list?
Not in WBC rankings.
Tank fightS for WBA
Thanks Carlos..didn’t know that
I think that the WBC does not rate champions of other organizations. Tank holds the WBA “regular” title.
The world has one less undisputed champion tonight. Of course, the undisputed champion had the paradox of a WBA regular champion who is better than him, so there’s that.
Lomachenko and his team don’t want a piece of Shakur, so, Isaac “pitbul” Cruz most likely will step to the plate to fight Shakur. Lopsided decision in Shakur’s favor in a forgettable fight
Who said that??? You???
Lol
It’s like I said shakur is afraid of lomachenko because loma needed 3 fights to become a world champion lol
When lomachenko said s ge does not want to fight shakur then you talk here
Some comments have to be based on facts, Carlos; mine is one of them. There are some videos on YouTube that prove what I said about Lomachenko and his team regarding Shakur, one of which is “LOMACHENKO TEAM ADMITS SHAKUR STEVENSON WORRY, and another is “Lomachenko Turns Down Shakur Stevenson Fight.” check it out.
Loma never turn a fight with shakur he has nothing to lose
Actually I think they are set to fight now …see????
Most fighters don’t become champion in 3 fights so whats your point? That makes no sense. In that case, Lopez and Haney were afraid of Loma. I guess Salido was scared of him as well. Loma got his shot and now its time for Stevenson to get his.
I put an example when I say my own words like Barucho did inventing that loma was afraid of shakur
Font be like Haney that were very confident and he lost in the ring vs lomachenko
Here comes Stevenson/Cruz.
Cruz better work on his punch deliveries, jabs and head movements or else he will run into, “Mayor Stevenson’s Counterpunch City.”
We will see how Stevenson handles Cruz’s intense pressure and wide, hard punches.
After the fight, folks may compare/contrast Davis/Cruz to Stevenson/Cruz.
I can’t wait for this scrap.
Frank Martin will step in
Cruz will get destroyed by Shakur. Target practice all day. Now that he has learned to fight in the pocket, he has become a more complete fighter
What you mean destroy??? Shakur won’t ko cruz shakur will win by sleeping unanimous decision
1. I think Haney is being a real punk for bypassing Shakur. Especially knowing Skakur will beat his ass.
2. Haney will have an easy time with Prograis. In fact, he might even stop him late.
3. My prediction is Stevenson vs Cruz. Interesting fight. Stevenson is too intelligent and quick for Cruz. Tank struggled and arguably lost to Cruz. For Stevenson, it will not be a contest. He will drop Cruz twice, and the ref will stop the fight late in the fight. Stevenson will win every single round.
I want to thank Fight News for promoting me to Super Champion, and acknowledging my contributions + my talent. 🙂
If you could make a fighter specifically to deal with Isaac Cruz, the guy you’d end up with would probably be a lot like Shakur Stevenson. Cruz turned it down once before as an eliminator, it’s hard to see him passing on an actual title shot though. If Loma isn’t interested (and I think he might be, especially at this stage of his career where he doesn’t have much to lose), I think they do get Stevenson – Cruz and it’s 120-108 territory, potentially, in that fight.
Shakur versus Loma…..makes sense according to their wording of point 3….. and the list of ranked fighters provided.
Both Top Rank, too
Evident from Haney’s last fight when Stevenson entered the ring to call him out while Haney squirted away, Haney is dodging Stevenson and will never come back down whether he wins or loses once Stevenson becomes champion.
Loma is like a turd that you flush and won’t go down. No matter how many setbacks he somehow remains at the top of the rankings for obvious reasons. He had his shot, let’s see what Stevenson can do. How is he still #1 after another loss?
Haney knows he’s running scared of Steveson. He was the guy nobody wanted to fight and now everyone wants him and suddenly he’s going to 140. He’s buying himself time but there is nowhere to go. 135 is perhaps the hottest division in the sport. Stevenson vs Haney.
Your hate for Loma is pathetic and racist!
He has done nothing but move up in weight to take on tough challenges, even against the younger bigger lions.
Hell Haney walks around at 165-170 and Loma gave him all he could handle.
The fact that Haney and Teo both chose to move up in weight and not give Loma a rematch tells you everything you need to know.
Move beyond your hatred.
SteveG I love how you call me a “racist” because i criticized your precious Lomachenko but ignored that I also criticized Haney as well.
You say “move beyond your hatred.” Where is that energy when folks are open racist towards others? You turn a blind eye. You’re only commenting because i criticized Lomachenko. If I said something racist about Haney you’d be giving me a thumbs up. Get off your high horse, you hypocrite. You are as “racist” as you claim that I am.
You obviously don’t pay attention. I call out all the racists and childish idiots on this board!!
He had his shot and won, but boxing politics beat him. Loma doesn’t hide or run.
I see they are protecting the little racist Haney by giving him a shot at 140. Lekaren, they may have promoted you to super champion only because I’m the champion in recess on this page! I’ll be back, you’ll see! Ha ha!
Racism was created by “White” Europeans in the 1600’s through a competition between England, Spain, Portugal, France, and the Netherlands in order to subjugate melinated people viewed by white racist scholars, psychologist and anthropologists as inferior through a ranking system with the goal of extracting resources, land, and free labor through colonization, mercantilism, psychological warfare, physical warfare, and biochemical warfare through the creation of the social construct called “Race” to justify their cognitive dissonance in order to dominate these genetically dominant beings socially, politically, economically, and psychologically, who actually had and still posses a large amount of the worlds resources. These white dominators use(d) deception and barbarism to accomplish their goals and use(d) the resources they stole in order to create an economic system through 100’s of years of free labor to create goods and services to make a profit. They’re goal is to control melinated original human beings through all areas of people activity including: education, entertainment, labor, law, politics, religion, sex, and war. All white people of European (specifically Western Europe) have and continue to benefit from this system. Devin Haney and others like him are far from racists, just because they say things like: “I’ll never lose to a white boy”. Your welcome.
DMV, B. Please. Thank your computer for that copy and paste job. Have and continue to benefit? Where? I’m not rich, worked for everything I got. Government does not pay any of my bills, never have. It’s sad that people like you exist meaning I’m a victim my whole life, so pity me. I have watched “people” rise and fall in life. It’s what you make of it and to use the “system” as a scapegoat to provide excuses for maybe your failures or others. Remember DMV, we are humans before anything else. Before any color. Yes, Haney made a racial statement and never heard him apologize for it. All colors can be racist there should be no exceptions and no double standard. To suggest otherwise rev als your ignorance. Brother!
It amazes me when one is unable to see their own racism and hatred.
As a mixed race person I’ve been on the receiving end of it from all sides my entire life.
So if Fury said he would never lose to a black boy then you wouldn’t think that is racist.
I for one would definitely consider that racism because it is an ignorant as statement based on the lack of pigment in ones skin that has no bearing whatsoever on what a person can accomplish in the ring.
Shakur and Davis both beat Loma, not because he’s Caucasian, but because they are better fighters. Facts!
The politicians use race as a wedge in America. Don’t fall into the trap. I’ve been going to the fights for 50 years. I sit next to whoever bought the seats around me. Whites, blacks, hispanics, orientals, doesn’t matter. We’re all there because we enjoy boxing. We have intelligent conversations about the fighters and the action in the ring. We’re all there because we have something in common – we are human beings who love the sport. Boxing brings people together.
Kbomb against Davis would be spectacular and I can’t call it.
Who is kbomb?
He will fight Edwin.
And it will be like Bud vs. Spence.
Peace.