Shakur Stevenson has repeatedly expressed interest in fighting both Gervonta "Tank" Davis and Vasiliy Lomachenko.
However, if Davis and Lomachenko wind up fighting each other in a lightweight world championship unification bout, Stevenson has another opponent in mind and he has reason to believe that this undefeated fighter could be "the harder fight" than Loma is for "Tank."
That opponent is none other than William Zepeda (31-0, 27 KOs) who knocked out Giovanni Cabrera on the same Saturday night that Stevenson dominated Artem Harutyunyan via unanimous decision.
"If 'Tank' gonna go fight Lomachenko why can’t I go fight the harder, maybe the harder fight, we don’t know," Stevenson, the WBC lightweight world champion, told the Cigar Talk YouTube channel. "Maybe the harder fight just because of William Zepeda’s volume and how much punches he throw. Where is he at though?"
Despite Zepeda being an option, Stevenson isn't sure that Golden Boy and Oscar De La Hoya will try to get the fight made.
Instead, the Newark, New Jersey product believes that De La Hoya will lead Zepeda to a bout with WBO lightweight world champion Denys Berinchyk.
"I think they’re banking on another fight where they can win a belt — Berinchyk," he added. "They don’t want this belt. They don't want the WBC belt."
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