Former two division world champion Shakur Stevenson has fired back at Devin Haney over claims that he ducked a potential showdown between the two.
Stevenson returns to the ring on Thursday night in Las Vegas, where he faces Edwin De Los Santos for the vacant WBC lightweight championship. A victory would give Stevenson a world title in his third weight class.
Haney had presented a 75-25 split for a July clash, but Stevenson rejected the idea of only earning 25% of the monetary split.
Haney has since made a decision to move up in weight to 140-pounds. He will challenge WBC junior welterweight champion Regis Prograis on December 9.
Earlier this year, Haney won a close twelve round unanimous decision over Vasiliy Lomachenko.
Stevenson was not impressed by the performance, and he feels confident in his ability to beat Haney.
In a recent interview, Haney maintained that his resume was better when compared to Stevenson.
However, Stevenson disagrees with that opinion.
“If you scratch Lomachenko off his resume and you put my resume up against his, I think mine is better,” Stevenson told Daily Mail’s The Hook podcast.
“With the Lomachenko fight it put him at a different level because he had the opportunity. Devin got better opportunities than me. He got the opportunity to fight [George Kambosos] for every belt – that’s an opportunity. I didn’t get the opportunity to fight Lomachenko on pay-per-view card. If we fought, that would be a big fight. We tried to do that and he said no.
“[Haney] can say that [that his record is better], that’s cool if he wants to run with that. I hear him, but ask him who the better fighter is. Really I’m a better fighter than you bro. I’m in the gym all the time, I eat sleep boxing. You party, social media, running round doing other sh!t. I’m locked in. Once the opportunity comes you’re going to see.”