Shakur Stevenson wins WBO title by beating his girlfriend’s BROTHER – and calls out Josh Warrington

SHAKUR STEVENSON will not have earned any favours with his in-laws in the Gonzalez household.

The 22-year-old American beat his girlfriend’s brother, Joet, to claim the WBO featherweight title by unanimous decision in Reno on Saturday.

But he only has eyes for the next prize after the featherweight boxer called out IBF king and Leeds hero Josh Warrington.

During the pre-fight preparation, according to the New York Post, Joet Gonzalez and his sister Jajaira had grown apart after being forced to choose sides between her boyfriend and her sibling.

Stevenson barely helped matters following her victory at the Reno_sparks Convention Center, saying: “Joet is nothing. I got no respect for Joet. If he wants to be cool, I’ll be cool with him.”

Gonzalez became the Newark native’s 13th victim as he claimed the WBO featherweight title.

It comes three years after claiming a silver medal at the 2014 Olympics in Rio de Janeiro – but times have been hard of late for the American.

Stevenson lost his dad, Alfredo Rivera, after he suffered a heart attack last month.

I want Josh Warrington. You said you wasn’t going to fight me until I got a title. I got a title now. Let’s work.

Shakur Stevenson

Yet, he now only has eyes for more belts, with Leeds’ IBF champion next on the agenda.

The American told the Nevada crowd: “I want Josh Warrington. You said you wasn’t going to fight me until I got a title. I got a title now. Let’s work.”

The Leeds Warrior beat Sofiane Takoucht earlier this month to make it three successful defences of his belt, after taking it off Lee Selby in 2018.

And USA can expect a whole horde of Yorkshire fans after Warrington claimed his next fight will be in the States.

The 28-year-old had told how his friends were already preparing for a trip across the pond – before he had even beaten French fighter Takoucht.

The Leeds Warrior said: “One of my pals rang me up a few weeks after and said, ‘Josh have you heard owt about an America fight? All the lads are desperate. Is it going to be this year?’

“He said, ‘I’ve got myself a credit card with £3,000 on it. I’ve squared the missus up, she’ll be coming with me.

“‘There are a couple of lads bringing their girls so they’re going to have their pamper days but that credit card is there for nothing else but your fight’.

“You can’t buy that support.

“The fella has gone out and put himself into a bit of debt but he told me he had first watched me at Leeds town hall in 2013 and is not giving up now America is on the horizon.”