Eddie Hearn and Matchroom are delighted to announce the signing of one among boxing’s greatest megastars in Shakur Stevenson.
The WBC World Light-weight Champion (22-0, 10 KOs) will defend his championship in opposition to former IBF Tremendous-Featherweight king Joe Cordina on October 12 within the upcoming Riyadh Season spectacle within the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.
His Excellency Turki Alalshikh confirmed as we speak that the 27 yr outdated, three-division World champion will battle Welshman Cordina on the identical evening Dmitry Bivol and Artur Beterbiev contest the Undisputed Gentle-Heavyweight championship.
A future showdown with necessary challenger William Zepeda awaits the winner – and Stevenson is assured he’ll set-up a mega-fight with the undefeated Mexican.
“I’m prepared to begin this subsequent chapter of my profession and it begins on October 12 with Joe Cordina on the stacked Riyadh Season card in Saudi Arabia,” mentioned Stevenson.
“I’ve made it clear that I need the largest names and the largest fights within the sport. Convey on William Zepeda on the prime of 2025 and I’m prepared for anybody who’s courageous sufficient to step within the ring with me. There have been few keen to tackle that problem lately.
With Matchroom and Riyadh Season, I’m teaming up with a promotional drive that matches my world class expertise. We will probably be unstoppable out and in of the ring, and I’ll proceed to indicate my dominance for a few years to return within the sport of boxing.”
Matchroom Sport chairman Eddie Hearn believes Stevenson is a generational expertise, who will etch his title in historical past as one of many sport’s all-time legends.
“I’m delighted to welcome what I imagine is a pound-for-pound nice to the Matchroom crew,” mentioned Hearn.
“Shakur Stevenson is 27 and already a three-division World champion and is perhaps unbeatable within the sport of boxing.
“This younger man needs to be a worldwide famous person, and I imagine with our machine behind him, he’ll land all the massive fights and obtain all of the credit score that he deserves.
“The journey begins on October 12 in Riyadh on an enormous card, and we can not look forward to the long run collectively.”
Southpaw Stevenson dismantled Artem Harutyunyan in July in entrance of his hometown followers in Newark, New Jersey, successful by way of an aesthetic unanimous factors victory.
The American captured the WBC Light-weight crown again in November 2023 when he outpointed Edwin De Los Santos in Las Vegas to land the vacant belt.
Stevenson boasts a flawless resume – having defeated the likes of Oscar Valdez, Robson Conceicao and Jamel Herring – which has seen him gather the WBC and WBO Tremendous Featherweight straps, together with the WBO Featherweight title throughout an unbelievable profession up to now.
Matchroom Boxing will present particulars on a launch press convention with Shakur Stevenson in Los Angeles subsequent week in the end.
