Shakur Stevenson of the US has still not officially signed that fight with Devin Haney next and it looks like Haney vs Keyshawn Davis instead.
That is not confirmed yet though for clarity.
Team Haney have said the Shakur Stevenson fight is the preference for them and Stevenson is still yet to sign.
Stevenson is bringing up weight yet again on social media, he has done this a couple of times now.
Some things on this:
- Claims to have accepted 144lb catchweight but keeps bringing up weight again—moving goalposts.
- Haney already conceded by agreeing to 144lbs (he’s a natural 147lb fighter).
- Shakur said he’d fight Conor Benn at 147lbs, so why struggle with Haney at 144lbs?
- If he truly wanted the fight, he’d agree to 144lbs and a rehydration clause—but he won’t finalize.
- His manager James Prince has been making “strange threats” in interviews instead of negotiating.
- Haney has already made 144lbs comfortably (vs Ramirez), so extra restrictions are unnecessary.
- The 144lb catchweight was already the compromise—adding more conditions undoes it.
- Team Haney said they’ll fight at the catchweight—ball is in Shakur’s court.
- Haney has a mandatory defense against Keyshawn Davis pending, so Shakur is running out of time.
- Talks big publicly but adds conditions privately—textbook way to price himself out while claiming he wants it.
Shakur Stevenson claims to want the big fights but the truth of it looks a bit different.
Besides the Teofimo Lopez fight, he still needs that big name on his resume to start calling himself one of the new pound for pound leaders in the sport.
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