Shakur Stevenson Accepts Devin Haney’s 145-Pound Fight Terms
Shakur Stevenson has publicly accepted a 145-pound weight for a fight with Devin Haney, the number that had stalled the matchup for days. Haney posted the stakes first.
“Crown me #1 P4P after this InshaAllah,” he wrote on X. Stevenson answered inside the hour. “145.0 U GOT A DEAL DEEHOE!!!!”
That reply is the first time Stevenson has put 145.0 in writing as an accepted number. It is not a signed bout agreement, and no promoter has announced a date, a venue, or a purse. It does close the public gap that kept the two unbeaten Americans from landing on the same poster.
Haney opened the latest round on October 6 by dropping his demand from the welterweight limit.
“Let’s do this 145 no rehydration clause,” he wrote, naming December 2026 and telling someone to wake Stevenson up. A day earlier he had posted “147.. no rehydration let’s get it done.” The two-pound cut was the concession. The missing rehydration clause was the condition he would not give up.
Stevenson had not taken that package. On October 6 he called Haney a weight bully and said he would rather revisit a catchweight than fight at 147 with a 10-pound limit on what he could regain. He also said the camps were already talking.
“My people are in contact with your people. We will get this fight done,” Stevenson wrote, adding that he was done negotiating the fight online. The “145.0” reply is the first public move since that post.
The scale has been the whole argument. Stevenson wanted 144 pounds. Haney wanted 147 with no cap on what he could weigh on fight night. In June the two briefly agreed online to 144, then the talks stalled again. A 145-pound catchweight sits between those numbers.
It does not, by itself, settle how much Haney can put back on after the weigh-in, because Stevenson’s reply names the scale weight and does not mention a rehydration clause.
Haney is 33-0 with 15 knockouts and one no-contest. He took the WBO welterweight title from Brian Norman Jr. by unanimous decision on November 22, 2025, in Riyadh, and he has not fought since. A planned bout with Keyshawn Davis fell apart after Davis said the money was not enough.
Haney’s WBO belt could still be on the line at a catchweight, the way other titles have been risked below the division limit, but that is a sanctioning decision, not a social-media one.
Stevenson is 25-0 with 11 knockouts. He became a four-division champion on January 31, when he outpointed Teofimo Lopez for the WBO super-lightweight title, and he also holds The Ring belt at 140.
He signed a multi-fight deal with Zuffa Boxing in July and has not fought in those colors yet. Dana White called the signing a massive addition for the TKO startup. Stevenson named Haney and Gervonta Davis as the opponents he wanted. Haney is not a Zuffa fighter, so any bout would need a co-promotion.
Both men have treated the fight as a pound-for-pound case. Haney’s post asks to be crowned No. 1 after it. Stevenson, who has spent the week arguing about ounces, answered by accepting the number instead of the ranking.
An official connected to the talks told BoxingScene this week that discussions were advanced and that Haney’s WBO title was part of the conversation. The same official said the weight was still unresolved. The new posts move that piece. They do not replace a contract.
December is the month Haney put on the offer. Stevenson has not confirmed that month in the reply that accepted 145.0. If the camps turn the exchange into paperwork, it would be Stevenson’s first bout under Zuffa and Haney’s first since the Norman win. Until a promoter posts a date, the only deal on record is the one Stevenson typed.
