Tonight, WBC Lightweight Champion Shakur Stevenson will go toe-to-toe with Artem Harutunyan in his hometown of Newark, New Jersey at the Prudential Center. While Stevenson has his sights set on earning a decisive victory in the ring, fans continue to speculate about who he’ll fight next. His current promoter, Top Rank, is home to not one, but two fellow lightweight champions. However, many would like to see the Newark native fight the one lightweight champion who is not fighting under the Top Rank umbrella — Gervonta “Tank” Davis. It’s unclear when or if the fight will happen, but Stevenson is confident it would be one to remember.
“We all know that me and Tank is going to be the biggest fight in years to come,” Stevenson told Manouk Akopyan of Boxing Scene.
“Everybody and any promoter will want to be involved when that happens. I just sit back and chill and try not to think about it. I’ll think about it when it happens.”
For some time, many skeptics have pointed the potential hurdles to finalizing a deal for the two to fight. Some say it would be difficult for the two to fight due to division between their promoters — Al Haymon and Bob Arum. Others say it wouldn’t be profitable enough to produce the funds needed to satisfy both parties. Stevenson happens to push back on the latter, saying it’s “the biggest fight in the world.”
“That’s like the biggest fight in the world, if we are really thinking about it. Every hood in America is going to want to watch that fight. It’s going to be a tremendous fight. That’s the biggest and best fight to make in boxing,” he continued in his conversation with Boxing Scene.
“That’s the game plan for me and the end goal. That’s the fight that I am going to kick the door down with. Honestly, that’s the direction I want to go in.”
