LAS VEGAS – Shakur Stevenson isn’t nearly as certain after defeating Oscar Valdez who he wants next as he was in the immediate aftermath of each of his two previous victories.

Now that Stevenson has beaten Jamel Herring and Valdez in back-to-back 130-pound title bouts, his inclination is to become his division’s first fully unified champion of boxing’s four-belt era. Fighting WBA world champ Roger Gutierrez (26-3-1, 20 KOs) or IBF champ Kenichi Ogawa (26-1-1, 18 KOs, 1 NC) will need to make financial sense for Stevenson’s promoter, Bob Arum, for either of those fights to happen, though.

“I’ll probably get the other two belts, but I gotta go sit back and talk to my team and see what they think,” Stevenson said during a post-fight press conference late Saturday night at MGM Grand. “And then we’ll come up with a decision.”

Stevenson is intrigued by the possibility of joining middleweights Bernard Hopkins and Jermain Taylor, junior welterweights Terence Crawford and Josh Taylor, cruiserweight Oleksandr Usyk and super middleweight Canelo Alvarez as a fully unified champion.

The unbeaten southpaw from Newark, New Jersey, didn’t discount the possibility of moving up to the 135-pound division, either. There are more intriguing lightweight fights that Arum could make for Stevenson either late this year or early in 2023 – most notably with the winner of the George Kambosos Jr.-Devin Haney title unification fight June 5 in Melbourne, Australia or against Vasiliy Lomachenko.

Facing Lomachneko could occur only once the three-division champion’s involvement in his native Ukraine’s war with Russia concludes. In addition to Stevenson, Arum’s company promotes Haney and Lomachenko.

“I mean, like I said, I gotta sit back and talk to my team and see what my team decide and what I decide,” Stevenson said. “And then I could tell you what I’m gonna do. But I was looking forward to being undisputed champion, so that’s probably first. But it’s depending on what my team think.”

Whichever division Stevenson chooses, he has indisputably established himself as a pound-for-pound performer based on his dominant victories over former champions in Valdez (30-1, 23 KOs) and Herring (23-3, 11 KOs). The 24-year-old Stevenson dropped Valdez during the sixth round and comfortably beat him on the scorecards of judges Tim Cheatham (117-110), Dave Moretti (118-109) and David Sutherland (118-109).

Mexico’s Valdez didn’t make many adjustments during a 12-round fight in which Stevenson’s superior speed and skill enabled him to pick Valdez apart at times.

“I ain’t give him too many options,” Stevenson said. “I came in there, I took control, I let him know I was here to win. And from there on, he couldn’t do nothing.”

Keith Idec is a senior writer/columnist for krikya360.com. He can be reached on Twitter @Idecboxing.