NEWARK, New Jersey – Shakur Stevenson made it known early Saturday morning that he’ll fight whichever lightweight his promoters at Top Rank Inc. propose for his return to the ring early in 2023.

Bouts with fully unified, undefeated 135-pound champion Devin Haney and former champ Vasiliy Lomachenko appear particularly makeable because Haney and Lomachenko are also promoted by Bob Arum’s company. Stevenson mentioned Haney and Lomachenko during his interview in the ring with ESPN’s Bernardo Osuna after the Newark native convincingly beat Brazil’s Robson Conceicao on Friday night at Prudential Center, but he reiterated his desire to battle Lomachenko during his post-fight press conference.

“If they want me to fight Lomachenko, I’m definitely down with that,” Stevenson said. “I would love that fight.”

The prevailing feeling within the boxing industry is that Top Rank will match Haney against Lomachenko if they win their respective fights next month.

Haney (28-0, 15 KOs), of Henderson, Nevada, is heavily favored to defeat former IBF/WBA/WBO champ George Kambosos Jr. (20-1, 10 KOs) in their immediate 12-round rematch October 16 at Rod Laver Arena in Melbourne, Australia. Ukraine’s Lomachenko (16-2, 11 KOs) also is a huge favorite over Jamaine Ortiz (16-0-1, 8 KOs), of Worcester, Massachusetts, five weeks in advance of their 12-rounder October 29 at Madison Square Garden’s Hulu Theater in New York.

Arum informed BoxingScene.com that Haney-Lomachenko isn’t guaranteed to happen next if they get through these upcoming matches unscathed. Haney could move up to the junior welterweight limit of 140 pounds if he beats Kambosos again, which would leave Lomachenko-Stevenson as an appealing alternative.

“All these plans are just people talking, even in our office,” Arum said. “There are no real plans. We’ll just mix and match where we can and make good fights that way. Let’s say Haney beats Kambosos and Haney says, ‘Rather than fight Lomachenko, I wanna fight Shakur,’ we’d sit down and make that happen.”

The 90-year-old Arum senses sincere interest among casual and hardcore boxing in a Lomachenko-Stevenson showdown.

“It would be a huge fight,” Arum said. “I get the buzz from prominent people who are boxing fans, but not, you know, in the weeds like a lot of the boxing people are. And that’s a fight that they all mention. It’s a fascinating fight. That’s the point. The fights that are great fights are fights where there is conjecture about which guy is gonna win. The fights that the odds are close and that there’s arguments on both sides. That makes a great event and a great fight.”

Whoever Stevenson fights next, that bout will be contested at the lightweight limit of 135 pounds.

The 25-year-old Stevenson (19-0, 9 KOs) out-classed Conceicao (17-2, 8 KOs) in their 12-rounder and easily won a unanimous decision. A day earlier, though, Stevenson was stripped of his WBC and WBO 130-pound championships because he came in 1.6 pounds overweight.

“I think it affected my body a little bit,” Stevenson said when asked about not making weight. “People don’t know. They was sitting there talkin’ about I wouldn’t take the two hours to lose two pounds. They don’t know that I lost like 12 pounds in three days. So, it’s like, when you get to the very end and you don’t got no more sweat coming out your body and your piss is orange, it’s over. Like, it’s all the way over. It’s no way you’re gonna make weight. So, I think it kinda affected me a little bit, but next fight I should be a hundred-percent strong and feeling real good.”

Keith Idec is a senior writer/columnist for BoxingScene.com. He can be reached on Twitter @Idecboxing.