The lightweight division is one of the most talent-stacked weight classes in boxing right now.
There is a superb mix of prospects coming through and already accomplished world champions who are all young and in their prime, with plenty of mouthwatering bouts to be made between them all.
Right now there are four separate champions, one with each organisation, and they are the WBO’s Denys Berinchyk, the IBF’s Vasiliy Lomachenko, the WBA’s Gervonta Davis and the WBC’s Shakur Stevenson.
None of them have yet fought one another, though there have been big bouts recently including Lomachenko who beat George Kambosos Jr to lift the belt back in May, and Davis seeing off the challenge of Ryan Garcia last April then more recently stopping Frank Martin.
Former cruiserweight champion turned boxing pundit Tony Bellew has now had his say on the 135 lbs division. In a new post on X he has said he believes that there is one man who will be left standing when all is said and done, and that’s Stevenson.
“Shakur Stevenson will be the last one standing out of all the prospects and world champions.”
Stevenson hails from Newark, New Jersey and has already held multiple world championships in three weight classes from featherweight to lightweight, including unified and lineal titles at super featherweight, though often gets criticised for his less than exciting fighting style.
