{"id":335814,"date":"2025-12-08T22:22:06","date_gmt":"2025-12-08T22:22:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/335814\/"},"modified":"2025-12-08T22:22:06","modified_gmt":"2025-12-08T22:22:06","slug":"madison-square-garden-to-host-teofimo-lopez-shakur-stevenson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/335814\/","title":{"rendered":"Madison Square Garden to host Teofimo Lopez-Shakur Stevenson"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NEW YORK &#8212; Madison Square Garden will host the 140-pound title match between Teofimo Lopez and Shakur Stevenson.<\/p>\n<p>The showdown <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com.au\/boxing\/story\/_\/id\/47166562\/teofimo-lopez-shakur-stevenson-set-140-pound-showdown-jan-31\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">already had been announced<\/a> but the site wasn&#8217;t unveiled until Monday. It heads to one of boxing&#8217;s famed venues after Ring Magazine owner Turki Alalshikh took his two previous cards in New York to unusual locations.<\/p>\n<p>Lopez fought on the card last May that was held outdoors in Times Square. Two months later, Stevenson defended his lightweight title with a victory on the card that was held in Louis Armstrong Stadium on the grounds of the USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center, where the US Open is played.<\/p>\n<p>Stevenson (24-0, 11 KOs), from nearby Newark, New Jersey, will be moving up in weight to face Lopez (21-1, 13 KOs), a New Yorker who will be making the fourth defense of his title.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NEW YORK &#8212; Madison Square Garden will host the 140-pound title match between Teofimo Lopez and Shakur Stevenson.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":335815,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[571],"tags":[64,63,802,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-335814","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-boxing","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-boxing","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/335814","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=335814"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/335814\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/335815"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=335814"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=335814"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=335814"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}