Shakur Stevenson has promised a knockout victory after a fiery exchange with a reigning world champion.
Stevenson is currently the WBO super-lightweight champion, capturing the belt with a unanimous decision win over Teofimo Lopez in January, becoming a four-weight world champion in the process.
The unbeaten sensation has since been linked to a number of different rivals, with it currently unknown whether he will remain at 140lbs or drop back down to lightweight, but now it is a super featherweight star that Stevenson has gone head-to-head with.
On Saturday, O’Shaquie Foster retained his WBC super featherweight belt with a majority decision win over Ray Ford, and he was then involved in a heated face-off with Stevenson in the ring after his victory.
Look they starting already, This dude scream my name on every platform.. Lie and say he beat me up and ran me out the gym when Ian never run from nobody, I’m a man first gang Let’s get it https://t.co/aROQCHaHo0
— Shakur Stevenson (@ShakurStevenson) May 31, 2026
After promising during the exchange that he would knock out Foster, Stevenson has since taken to social media as the rivalry continues to intensify.
“Tell his h*e a*s pick up the phone we could run it next…Don’t say he a 30 pounder either he talked his way here now let’s go…Boy gone wanna shake my hand after saying he ain’t shaking hands Foh let’s fight.
“Look they starting already, This dude scream my name on every platform.. Lie and say he beat me up and ran me out the gym when Ian never run from nobody, I’m a man first gang Let’s get it.”
Stevenson is a good friend of Ford, who suffered the defeat to Foster, so he appears keen to try and avenge that loss for his fellow New Jersey native, but it remains unknown which weight class the potential fight would be contested in.
For his part, Foster said he would move to 140 to make it happen, but 135 would be a much more level playing field and a weight Stevenson should not struggle to make.
