Shakur Stevenson defeats Harutyunyan, keeps WBC lightweight title


Shakur Stevenson made his first defense of the WBC lightweight title and beat Artem Harutyunyan in the main event of Top Rank’s card from Newark, New Jersey by a unanimous decision.

But this may not have been the story of the night.

The big story came in the co-main fight where Robson Conceicao shocked O’Shaquie Foster to win the WBC junior lightweight title. This was a shocker as Conceicao landed just 11 percent of his punches. Foster outpunched him 109-76.

Stevenson is a three-division world champion, having held titles at featherweight and junior lightweight before moving up to 135 pounds in April. Stevenson became a lightweight champion last November when outpointed Edwin De Los Santos in a historically sluggish affair to claim the vacant WBC belt.





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