{"id":286457,"date":"2025-07-23T23:42:09","date_gmt":"2025-07-23T23:42:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/286457\/"},"modified":"2025-07-23T23:42:09","modified_gmt":"2025-07-23T23:42:09","slug":"shawn-porter-delivers-new-verdict-on-gervonta-davis-vs-shakur-stevenson-after-zepeda-win","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/286457\/","title":{"rendered":"Shawn Porter Delivers New Verdict On Gervonta Davis vs Shakur Stevenson After Zepeda Win"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.secondsout.com\/topic\/shawn-porter\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Shawn Porter<\/a> has shared his latest verdict on a potential clash between <a href=\"https:\/\/www.secondsout.com\/topic\/gervonta-davis\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Gervonta Davis<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.secondsout.com\/topic\/shakur-stevenson\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Shakur Stevenson<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The unbeaten lightweight stars have been on a collision course for a number of years now, but a showdown between the pair is yet to come to fruition.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018Tank\u2019 Davis currently reigns as the WBA world lightweight champion, with the most recent defence of his crown coming against Lamont Roach Jr earlier, although the fight was declared a majority decision draw after a competitive contest in New York City.<\/p>\n<p>As for Stevenson, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/boxing\/story\/_\/id\/45727691\/shakur-stevenson-tops-william-zepeda-unanimous-decision-keep-belt\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">the 28-year-old from New York made his return to the ring on July 12 as he outpointed the previously unbeaten Mexican contender William Zepeda<\/a>, putting on arguably the best performance of his professional career in the process.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/-l4DJJMV5lE?si=0AUJ4D8_JRRxStGp&amp;t=136\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">In an interview with Fight Hype<\/a>, two-time welterweight champion Porter shared his thoughts on a potential showdown between \u2018Tank\u2019 and Stevenson, who he said is absolutely a top ten pound-for-pound fighter.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s a great fight man. Tactically, I absolutely love that fight. Tank got business to deal with, but Lamont, ain\u2019t no telling he gonna actually win that one, man, that\u2019s a great fight too. I don\u2019t know who wins with Tank and Shakur, man that\u2019s 50-50.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Davis had been in line to face Roach in their highly anticipated rematch next, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.secondsout.com\/news\/gervonta-davis-vs-lamont-roach-collapse\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">although it appears that this bout is now hanging in the balance after Roach claimed that he believes \u2018Tank\u2019 does not want to face him again.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>This could leave the door open for that long-awaited clash between Davis and Stevenson, which many fans and analysts believe could be one of, if not the \u2018biggest fight in boxing\u2019.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Shawn Porter has shared his latest verdict on a potential clash between Gervonta Davis and Shakur Stevenson. The&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":286458,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4108],"tags":[1935,79,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-286457","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-boxing","8":"tag-boxing","9":"tag-sports","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114905202225576595","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/286457","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=286457"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/286457\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/286458"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=286457"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=286457"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=286457"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}