{"id":29602,"date":"2025-07-28T14:49:07","date_gmt":"2025-07-28T14:49:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/29602\/"},"modified":"2025-07-28T14:49:07","modified_gmt":"2025-07-28T14:49:07","slug":"careful-what-you-wish-for-teofimo-lopez-agrees-to-face-champion-from-different-weight-class","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/29602\/","title":{"rendered":"“Careful What You Wish For”: Teofimo Lopez Agrees To Face Champion From Different Weight Class"},"content":{"rendered":"

Teofimo Lopez<\/a> has agreed to face an unbeaten world champion from a different weight class next.<\/p>\n

The 27-year-old from Brooklyn currently reigns as the WBO world super-lightweight title, with his most recent defence coming against mandatory challenger Arnold Barboza Jr at Times Square in New York City on May 2.<\/a><\/p>\n

Lopez previously held the unified WBA, WBO and IBF world lightweight titles between 2019 and 2021 before he was eventually dethroned by Australia\u2019s George Kambosos Jr in what was the first defeat of his professional career.<\/p>\n

One fighter that wants to lock horns with Lopez is reigning WBC world lightweight champion Shakur Stevenson<\/a>, as revealed on a recent social media post<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u201cI seen u say u wanna fight me Teofimo Lopez what\u2019s stopping it from happening next and this ain\u2019t no bluff let\u2019s make boxing great again Lil Teo.\u201d<\/p>\n

Lopez responded to this post just one day later, agreeing to face Stevenson and warning \u2018be careful what you wish for\u2019.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m going to repeat this, like I said to Barboza..<\/p>\n

Shakur Stevenson Be careful what you ask for!\u201d<\/p>\n

If Lopez and Stevenson were to meet next, the American duo colliding would be one of the most exciting bouts in the sport.<\/p>\n

It has been reported however that Stevenson could be matched up with long-term rival Gervonta Davis<\/a> next, after it was revealed that Riyadh Season\u2019s Turki Alalshikh remains interested in making the long-awaited \u2018dream-fight\u2019 next.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Teofimo Lopez has agreed to face an unbeaten world champion from a different weight class next. The 27-year-old…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":14256,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[447],"tags":[703,49,48,82],"class_list":["post-29602","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\/29602","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=29602"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29602\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14256"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29602"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29602"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29602"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}