Shakur Stevenson has all but conceded here it had been him that cost himself the Devin Haney fight in the end.
The US boxer said US boxing star Devin Haney had not agreed on original terms but he omitted the terms on social media in his rant.
He is also going off on another boxers on social media at the moment and is going a bit crazy it looks like to most.
He is even in the country of Thailand at the moment and gone travelling during a time he should have been signing a big fight in America.
Some notes on this;
- Shakur publicly stated he would only move up to 147 for Haney but he is surely insisting on a strict rehydration clause to be included—yet he completely omits this in his rant
- Haney’s team actually agreed to the 144-pound catchweight, but Stevenson kept complaining to Haney at the time on social media about weight.
- The clause was a poison pill designed to drain Haney, proving Stevenson needed a handicap to feel comfortable against a bigger fighter
- Stevenson framed the 144 catchweight as a “compromise” but conveniently forgets he stacked the rehydration term on top of it, he fails to mention it.
- Bill Haney likely flat out rejected the rehydration clause, which is what many think killed any realistic chance of the fight happening.
- There should have been no such term or clause or Stevenson at the end of the day.
- By demanding Haney drain down and stay drained, Stevenson moved the goalposts after Haney had already made a concession
- Stevenson told Haney to vacate his title or fight Keyshawn Davis at 147—so why would Haney then agree to drain himself for a fighter telling him to abandon his own weight class?
- His rant blames “clout chasers” but never addresses that he was the one introducing new terms that made the fight impossible
- Fans have called out this pattern of “conditions first, fight second” which contradicts his image as a fearless competitor
- The rehydration clause that Stevenson keeps not mentioning — exposes that Stevenson was the one who put the final nail in the coffin for Shakur Stevenson vs. Devin Haney—not the other way around.
At the end of the day he did not mention the rehydration clause, that is clearly the term he leaves out in his public social media rants.
As it would reveal him to be what he is, someone that avoids tough fights and fighting the best competitors of his time.
None of the greats ever did that.
None of them.
Shakur Stevenson is not one of them.
Devin Haney looks in a strong position after this for his talks in his next fight and can move on from Stevenson at this point surely.
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