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By Chris Williams: Shakur Stevenson (13-0, 7 KOs) captured the vacant WBO featherweight title last Saturday night in beating previously unbeaten #2 WBO Joet Gonzalez (23-1, 14 KOs) by a lopsided 12 round unanimous decision at the Reno-Sparks Convention Center, in Reno, Nevada.  → read full story

Shakur Stevenson is a world champion. The former Olympic medalist displayed all his boxing skills and completely neutralized Joet Gonzalez (his girlfriend’s brother) to conquer the vacant World Boxing Organization (WBO) featherweight title in front of 2,828 fans at the Reno-Sparks Convention Center.  → read full story

Stevenson-Gonzalez, Joshua Greer Jr.-Antonio Nieves and Mikaela Mayer Alejandra Zamora to stream Saturday LIVE on ESPN+ at 10 p.m.  → read full story

The man of many nicknames and one of the faces of female boxing will fight in co-feature bouts before Shakur Stevenson takes on Joet Gonzalez for the vacant WBO featherweight world title Saturday, October 26 at Reno-Sparks Convention Center.  → read full story

Ahead of his first world title opportunity, Joet Gonzalez (23-0, 14 KOs) has re-signed with Golden Boy as he begins to conquer the featherweight division.  → read full story

Tickets for the highly anticipated vacant WBO featherweight world title fight between unbeaten stars Shakur Stevenson and Joet Gonzalez — Saturday, October 26 at the Reno-Sparks Convention Center — go on sale TODAY, September 23, at 10 a.m.  → read full story

Three world title bouts and a highly anticipated light heavyweight unification fight are on the docket for Top Rank’s fall schedule, which will be unveiled TODAY at 12 p.m.  → read full story

By Chris Williams: Shakur Stevenson (12-0, 7 KOs) is looking forward to Vasiliy Lomachenko moving down to super featherweight if/when he unifies the 135-lb weight division first.  → read full story

By Kenneth Friedman: The WBO officially ordered Shakur Stevenson and Joet Gonzalez to begin negotiations to fight for their vacant featherweight title that Oscar Valdez gave up.  → read full story

By Dean Flessel: Oscar Valdez has chosen to vacate his WBO featherweight title rather than defend it against his unbeaten mandatory Shakur Stevenson.  → read full story