Shakur Stevenson has not been quiet about pushing for the fights he believes will make him a superstar. Within the last two years, he’s publicly called for fights with William Zepeda, Devin Haney, Gervonta “Tank” Davis and Vasyl Lomachenko. However, none of those public call outs have materialized into actual fights. Zepeda is set to fight Giovanni Cabrera on July 6, Devin Haney has moved up to super lightweight and Davis seems to be on a collision course with Lomachenko. Still, the New Jersey product is hopeful that he will have an opportunity to headline a major, pay-per-view event in the near future.
“It is what it is,” Stevenson told Boxing Scene.
“I’m doing this for me. I’m not doing this for money or clout. I don’t give a f—k about that s—t. I know that my time will come. Tank Davis has nowhere else to go but to fight me. At the end of the day, me and him will have to fight, and that’s my opportunity.”
In the meantime, the WBC Lightweight Champion is set to fight Artem Harutyunyan on Saturday, July 6 in his hometown of Newark, New Jersey.
“I’m not going to say I want to knock him out, because at the end of the day, when you go in there looking for the knockout, that’s how they don’t come,” Stevenson said when asked about his next fight.
“I’m looking to prove there are levels. We saw that Frank was on a C-level [against Davis], and I want to show Artem is C-level as well.”
