Shakur Stevenson announces retirement from boxing

[Ruthless-RKO]

Shakur Stevenson says he’s giving up boxing at age 26.

Shakur Stevenson has announced his retirement from boxing at age 26, posting to social media this evening.

Stevenson, who currently holds the WBC lightweight title and has also won belts at featherweight and super featherweight, last fought in November, beating Edwin De Los Santos in one of the most unwatchable fights of 2023.

“I’m officially retiring from the sport of boxing,” he wrote on X. “I’ll be in the gym forever perfecting my craft and helping the next generation become great and chase they dreams, but I ain’t (fornicate with) this weak boxing game.”

Stevenson won a silver medal representing the United States at the Rio Olympics in 2016, and has obviously had major success as a professional since turning over in the spring of 2017.

Rightfully so, this will be treated with major skepticism by boxing fans and observers. If he officially vacates his 135 lb title, it may be taken more seriously, but until then, this probably won’t be taken much more seriously than Top Rank stablemate Teofimo Lopez’s “shock retirement” last June, which did not last once it was clearly stated to him that he’d have to give up the belt he held at the time.

Lopez is scheduled to fight Jamaine Ortiz on Feb. 8, and odds are we’ll wind up telling you what Stevenson’s next fight is soon enough.

[Ruthless-RKO]

We all know he ain't going anywhere..

[gregregegg]

Strip him today. Not just of titles but if rankings. I fvcking hate fake retirements.

[girv]

He’ll be back as soon as it occurs to him that he has no other way of earning decent money.

Today’s crop are such a bunch of entitled whiners.

[KiwiRider]

He’ll be back as soon as it occurs to him that he has no other way of earning decent money.

Today’s crop are such a bunch of entitled whiners.

Yes, he seems like a "no plan B" type.
I am guessing he has made enough to own a medium to modest home outright - hopefully.

[Lackeos]

This sort of social media activity is just a common way of doing business now. Get used to it. Gen Z boxers are going to be constantly fake announcing retirement, deleting their IG, etc. for attention in order to try to gain followers / cloud and drive sales.

[pound per pound]

We all know he ain't going anywhere..

Why do I fell we are not getting the full story? Could be crime related, our PED related. Or health related.

[KiwiRider]

We all know he ain't going anywhere..

Why do I fell we are not getting the full story? Could be crime related, our PED related. Or health related.

Exactly.
The popped dirty fighters aren't always outed publicly like they absolutely should be.
Plenty of fighters just retire early.
It's a very decent Am and Pro career to retire on.

[margaret thatcher]

i'll believe it more when he gives up his belt

[Ruthless-RKO]

‘See ya’ll in June’: Shakur Stevenson says he’ll be back in action this summer

Only weeks after supposedly retiring from the sport, Shakur Stevenson says he’s ready to resume his career.

Less than two full weeks after announcing his retirement from boxing on social media, Shakur Stevenson now announces that he’ll be making his return this summer, with the hash tag ‘chasing greatness’ that followed.

“I’ll fight any and everybody, this is what I do. See ya’ll in June,” Stevenson posted on X.



When a commenter mentioned the abrupt 180 degree turn from Stevenson, particularly given it’s been less than a month of ‘retirement,’ Stevenson joked that he just couldn’t stay away.

“I know, right. Couldn’t keep myself away from it. Love this shit too much,” Stevenson posted.



That Stevenson will be returning to the ring comes as no surprise to just about anybody, as no one took his retirement claim seriously, but the optics surrounding it all isn’t going to endear Stevenson to fans much as the whole charade was painfully transparent from the beginning.

No opponent has been mentioned at this stage.

[Crease]

Only weeks after supposedly retiring from the sport, Shakur Stevenson says he’s ready to resume his career.

Hope he gets chinned now, knock some sense into him.