O’Shaquie Foster targets Shakur Stevenson: ‘He is No. 1 on my hit list’ 

O’Shaquie Foster wants a fight with Shakur Stevenson – and if Foster has his way, the fighters won’t have to go far to find each other.

Foster, 24-3 (12 KOs), who most recently defeated former two-division titleholder Stephen Fulton Jnr via a unanimous decision in December, hopes to one day face Stevenson in Houston, the area where both fighters train.

Ask Foster, who is on a two-fight win streak since a shocking split decision loss to Robson Conceicao in 2024, and he’ll tell you the bout is all but inevitable.

“He is No. 1 on my hit list,” Foster told BoxingScene. “I am dead serious – that is who I want.”

Stevenson, 25-0 (11 KOs), is an unbeaten four-division phenom who is a consensus pound-for-pound fighter. A 28-year-old from Newark, New Jersey, Stevenson outclassed Teofimo Lopez Jnr to win the WBO junior welterweight title on Saturday night.

After recently being stripped of the WBC lightweight title, Stevenson is now a titleholder at junior welterweight. It’s unclear in which weight class Stevenson will take his next fight, though after beating Lopez, he did have a confrontation with Conor Benn, who has competed from welterweight to middleweight.

Foster isn’t concerned about any of it.

“It doesn’t matter where he goes,” Foster said of Stevenson. “I am going up north anyway.”

Foster, 32, is between two weight classes. He holds the WBC junior lightweight title, and with the win over Fulton, he briefly became the interim WBC lightweight titleholder. His next move seems to hinge on whether he can unify titles in the junior lightweight division.

“It just depends on the opportunity,” Foster said. “I could still make 130lbs.”

Foster believes that he could return as soon as April, or perhaps in the summer, but he has nothing targeted at the moment. He plans to continue calling for a fight with Stevenson, but Foster is aware that his desire for the meeting may be a one-way street.

“I got a feeling he is going to pursue other big names,” Foster said. “I feel like he’d rather me not be in his way.”

Lucas Ketelle is the author of “Inside the Ropes of Boxing,” a guide for young fighters, a writer for BoxingScene and a member of the Boxing Writers Association of America. Find him on X at @BigDogLukie.