Former WBO 126lbs champion Shakur Stevenson will be a keen observer when Belfast star Carl Frampton eventually takes on WBO super-featherweight ruler Jamel Herring.
Frampton faces late replacement Darren Traynor in London on Saturday evening, in preparation for a proposed clash with Herring later in 2020.
New Jersey’s Stevenson recently vacated his featherweight crown in order to pursue world honours at 130lbs and, though the American respects former two-weight champion Frampton, he believes the Belfast man will lack the size to be successful at super-featherweight.
“With all due respect, if Carl Frampton end up winning that [Herring] fight, then I’m going to whoop his ass for Jamel, we’ll see,” Stevenson told BT Sport.
“Carl Frampton is a good fighter though. I just think he’s too small. I saw him in person, he’s real small.
“He’s too small, it would be hard with someone like me in front of him that knows distance and really is as skilful as I am. He is pretty skilful himself but I think my skills are [better] – with all due respect to him.”