Shakur Stevenson And Devin Haney Made Their Own Fight?

Two prominent American multi-division world champions, Shakur Stevenson and Devin Haney, are certainly highly sought-after fighters in terms of their recognition, money involved in their fights and fame/notoriety for fighting them.

Well, on Tuesday on social media they turned their attention to each other and a possible showdown in the ring that would be quite intriguing, if it could become reality.

First, Stevenson, the former Olympic  Silver Medalist, is now a four division world champ after he wiped out WBO  junior welterweight titleholder Teofimo Lopez over 12 rounds in their January main event at Madison Square Garden.

This came on the heels of Stevenson having equally dominated the top lightweight contender in the world, Mexico's Williams Zepeda, in an easy, decision victory last July for the WBC lightweight championship.

With everyone wondering whether Stevenson would stay at junior welterweight or maybe, move back down and defend the lightweight crown, Shakur vacated the WBC 135 lb. belt, in part because of a licensing fee dispute with the WBC.

However, on Tuesday, as he traded barbs with Haney on social media, he asserted that he would be willing to move up beyond the 140 lb. limit, where he holds the new title and fight Haney at a "catch weight" for his WBO  welterweight world championship.

Haney, a multi-division world champion himself, won that title by dropping and then, dominating previously unbeaten American Brian Norman in a 12 round decision in Saudi Arabia back in November of last year. 

Haney is  widely regarded as one of the top two or three smaller weight American fighters in the sport and has previous wins over future hall of famer Vasily Lomachenko and beat George Kambosos for the undisputed lightweight crown twice in Australia.

So, while most of social media should be taken with a grain of salt, once the back and forth started, it was interesting that they Fighters seemed to agree on the catch weight of 144 lb.

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Now it should be mentioned that the WBO, which has both Stevenson and Haney as world champs, wants Haney to defend his welterweight crown against , newly elevated #1 ranked, Keyshawn Davis.

Davis is also a former Olympic  Silver Medalist and just won a recent contender fight at 140 lb., but wants to move up to 147 lb.

For his part, Davis also weighed in on the back and forth that he would like to get involved and fight Haney next.

However Davis doesn't have near the name resume' or credibility that both Stevenson and Haney have.

And, Turki Alashikh of the Saudi Entertainment and Leisure Authority and Ring magazine has already paid/promoted both Stevenson and Haney significantly for previous bouts on his PPVs. So, it would also fit that he might attempt to make this type of bout for headline a card for the upcoming Riyadh Season events in Saudi Arabia.

Will any of this actually be a reality? Time will tell.

But, it's certainly seems as though Stevenson And Haney want it to happen. And, that's a huge step typically in a fight getting made.