{"id":172224,"date":"2025-09-27T04:56:09","date_gmt":"2025-09-27T04:56:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/172224\/"},"modified":"2025-09-27T04:56:09","modified_gmt":"2025-09-27T04:56:09","slug":"teofimo-lopez-vs-shakur-stevenson-a-superfight-in-the-making","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/172224\/","title":{"rendered":"Teofimo Lopez vs. Shakur Stevenson: A Superfight in the Making"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After weeks of speculation, the smoke appears to have cleared: a showdown between WBO junior welterweight champion Teofimo Lopez and WBC lightweight champion Shakur Stevenson is on track for early 2026.<\/p>\n<p>Lopez (22-1, 13 KOs), nicknamed \u201cThe Takeover\u201d, dropped a strong hint that both camps have reached an agreement by posting a video to social media captioned, \u201cEARLY 2026 #TeofimoShakur.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cShakur Stevenson, I\u2019m coming for you brother,\u201d Lopez declared in the clip. \u201cWhat are you gonna do, when \u2018The Takeover\u2019 takes over you, brother?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Minutes later, Stevenson (24-0, 11 KOs) responded with a statement of his own: \u201cCHAPTER CLOSED. Teo, let\u2019s make boxing great again.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"After weeks of speculation, the smoke appears to have cleared: a showdown between WBO junior welterweight champion Teofimo&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":172225,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[447],"tags":[703,49,48,82],"class_list":["post-172224","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-boxing","tag-boxing","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172224","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=172224"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172224\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/172225"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=172224"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=172224"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=172224"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}