Three-weight world champion Shakur Stevenson (23-0, 11 KOs) has revealed plans to come to the UK to settle his feud with Brit boxer Conor Benn (23-1, 14 KOs) after the pair traded verbal blows.
“I'd do a big fight there and we'll have a blast. I would love it,” the 28-year-old from Newark said. “I think that'd be big. Fill out a big ass arena and Conor Benn likes to talk s***, he'd be trolling me every single day now.
“He DM’d me, and he also just comments on every picture, talking s*** about me. So tell him, get ready. I'm gonna f*** him up.
“I'm taking that back! I will not fight Conor Benn at 54. Me and Conor Benn, I can fight at 47. And that's another thing too I'm gonna put out there, I'm not a 47 pounder. I'm not fighting at 47 for just anybody.
“The only reason why I was saying with Conor Benn is because he's smaller. Like I've seen him in person. He's literally like, I wanna say he's shorter than me. So that's kind of cool, but like far as like 47, I'm so f***ing small for even 135. I will go up, but it'd be specific people at 47.”
An Olympic silver medallist from Rio 2016, Shakur Stevenson has won world titles at feather and super-featherweight, and is the reigning WBC lightweight world champion.
Stevenson and Benn have similar records with 23 wins each and KO columns in the double digits, but the Briton has a loss on his ledger after being outpointed by his family rival Chris Eubank Jr. in April.
The Brits are due to run it back in September, back at the same venue in London's Tottenham Hotspur stadium.
Stevenson fights this weekend, July 12, against unbeaten Mexican contender William Zepeda Segura (33-0, 27 KOs) in Queens, New York, live on DAZN.
Any chance of a fight between Stevenson and Benn would be delayed a long time to at least December this year and beyond.