Shakur Stevenson believes he is the best lightweight in the world and after Devin Haney picked up a twelve-round unanimous decision win over Vasiliy Lomachenko, Stevenson made sure to get in the ring as fast as possible to let that belief be known.
With Haney holding the IBF, WBA, WBO and WBC lightweight world titles, Stevenson was quick to make a claim that he wants to face him next, if Haney decides to stay at lightweight.
“Lomachenko should be undisputed champion here, he won,” Stevenson said after fight in the ring on ESPN+ pay-per-view telecast. “[Lomachenko] won that fight. He landed the cleaner punches."
Now comes the boring business side of things. Haney is a free-agent, at least that is what we are being told. Haney also could very well move up to the junior welterweight division for his net fight so a bout with Stevenson is by no means a given, despite Stevenson being the number-one contender as determined by the WBC rankings.
Stevenson was last in action on April 8th, stopping Shuichiro Yoshino in the sixth round of their scheduled twelve-round main event, which was a WBC lightweight eliminator that took place in Stevenson city of Newark, NJ.
