{"id":576772,"date":"2026-03-31T18:09:07","date_gmt":"2026-03-31T18:09:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/576772\/"},"modified":"2026-03-31T18:09:07","modified_gmt":"2026-03-31T18:09:07","slug":"world-champion-vows-to-make-it-look-easy-against-shakur-stevenson-ive-beaten-better","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/576772\/","title":{"rendered":"World champion vows to make it look easy against Shakur Stevenson: “I’ve beaten better”"},"content":{"rendered":"

Shakur Stevenson<\/a> hasn\u2019t come close to losing in his professional career so far but one reigning world champion believes he would defeat the unbeaten star with ease.<\/p>\n

Stevenson became a four-weight world champion<\/a> back in January when he put in a stellar performance to defeat Teofimo Lopez for his WBO super-lightweight title at Madison Square Garden in New York.<\/p>\n

That triumph has gone alongside previous world title reigns at featherweight, super-featherweight and lightweight, and it is currently hard to see who could possibly be the one to end Stevenson\u2019s undefeated record.<\/p>\n

One fighter that Stevenson has since been linked to is Ryan Garcia, who won the WBC welterweight title when he overcame Mario Barrios in February.<\/p>\n

Garcia has been discussing a possible clash with Stevenson on the Creators Think Podcast<\/a>, insisting he wouldn\u2019t find it difficult to claim a win against his rival.<\/p>\n

I\u2019ve beaten a slick fighter already, Devin Haney, who is longer, stronger and faster than Shakur.<\/p>\n

Shakur\u2019s better defensively, but he\u2019s never faced a guy as fast and with timing like myself. It wouldn\u2019t be a hard fight.\u201d<\/p>\n

As Garcia mentioned, he did get a majority decision victory against Haney when they fought in April 2024, though the result was later changed to a no contest after \u2018King Ry\u2019 failed a drugs test, resulting in a one-year suspension.<\/p>\n

Stevenson and Garcia have gone back and forth in recent weeks over a proposed meeting, but any chance of seeing the bout next may be unlikely after \u2018King Ry\u2019 revealed a different name as his upcoming opponent.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Shakur Stevenson hasn\u2019t come close to losing in his professional career so far but one reigning world champion…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":576773,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[571],"tags":[64,63,802,85],"class_list":["post-576772","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-boxing","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-boxing","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/576772","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=576772"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/576772\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/576773"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=576772"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=576772"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=576772"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}