Eddie Hearn and Matchroom are delighted to announce the signing of considered one of boxing’s largest 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His Excellency Turki Alalshikh confirmed right now that the 27 12 months outdated, three-division World champion will battle Welshman Cordina on the identical evening Dmitry Bivol and Artur Beterbiev contest the Undisputed Gentle-Heavyweight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 obligatory 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 start out 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 would like the largest names and the largest fights within the sport. Deliver on William Zepeda on the high of 2025 and I’m prepared for anybody who’s courageous sufficient to step within the ring with me. There have been few prepared to tackle that problem in recent times.
With Matchroom and Riyadh Season, I’m teaming up with a promotional power that matches my world class expertise. We shall be unstoppable out and in of the ring, and I’ll proceed to indicate my dominance for a few years to come back within the sport of boxing.”
Matchroom Sport chairman Eddie Hearn believes Stevenson is a generational expertise, who will etch his identify in historical past as one of many sport’s all-time legends.
“I’m delighted to welcome what I consider is a pound-for-pound nice to the Matchroom staff,” mentioned Hearn.
“Shakur Stevenson is 27 and already a three-division World champion and may be unbeatable within the sport of boxing.
“This younger man must be a world celebrity, and I consider 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’t look ahead to the longer term collectively.”
Southpaw Stevenson dismantled Artem Harutyunyan in July in entrance of his hometown followers in Newark, New Jersey, profitable through 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 acquire 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.
