{"id":348998,"date":"2025-12-16T13:49:07","date_gmt":"2025-12-16T13:49:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/348998\/"},"modified":"2025-12-16T13:49:07","modified_gmt":"2025-12-16T13:49:07","slug":"shakur-stevenson-sums-up-jake-pauls-boxing-ability-after-sparring-session-ahead-of-joshua-fight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/348998\/","title":{"rendered":"Shakur Stevenson sums up Jake Paul’s boxing ability after sparring session ahead of Joshua fight"},"content":{"rendered":"

Shakur Stevenson<\/a> is one of a few world-class operators that have sparred Jake Paul<\/a>, and can therefore comment on the YouTuber-turned-boxer\u2019s ability in the ring.<\/p>\n

The WBC lightweight champion, who has claimed world honours in three weight divisions, will move up to 140lbs and face WBO belt-holder Teofimo Lopez on January 31<\/a>.<\/p>\n

But before entering his training camp for the Lopez clash, which takes place at Madison Square Garden, New York, Stevenson was invited to share a few rounds with Paul in Puerto Rico.<\/p>\n

This was back when Paul had been preparing for his exhibition match with WBA lightweight champion Gervonta Davis<\/a>, who was later ruled out of the event due to allegations of domestic violence.<\/p>\n

But while training for Davis, a 5ft 5ins southpaw, Paul had called upon the services of Stevenson, as well as former world champions Keyshawn Davis and Raymond Ford, in a bid to replicate the 31-year-old\u2019s style in sparring.<\/p>\n

Since their exhibition, scheduled for November 14, was cancelled, though, Paul has instead shared rounds with heavyweight contenders Lawrence Okolie, Jared Anderson and Frank Sanchez.<\/p>\n

This, of course, is in preparation for his professional eight-round contest with Anthony Joshua<\/a>, which takes place this Friday at the Kaseya Center, Miami.<\/p>\n

Sure enough, his training for a 6ft 6ins heavyweight, and two-time world champion, must look vastly different to what he was experiencing just a few months ago.<\/p>\n

But still, after sharing between six and seven rounds with Paul, Stevenson has told Ariel Helwani<\/a> that fans could be surprised by just how skilful the 28-year-old really is, saying he was \u2018better than people would even understand.\u2019<\/p>\n

\u201cWe sparred, we did 6 or 7 rounds. It\u2019s crazy, because I think Jake is better than people would even understand. A lot of people don\u2019t think he\u2019s as good because he started [boxing] so late.<\/p>\n

You don\u2019t know how good he really could be if he started earlier, but you can tell he\u2019s taking the craft [seriously].<\/p>\n

He\u2019s locking in, and doing training camps, and [has] got the right team around him. I was impressed, for sure. I was surprised. You could tell he had a good coach in his corner, who\u2019s telling him the right things. He\u2019s listening to the right things.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Shakur Stevenson is one of a few world-class operators that have sparred Jake Paul, and can therefore comment…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":348999,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[447],"tags":[703,49,48,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-348998","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-boxing","8":"tag-boxing","9":"tag-ca","10":"tag-canada","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/348998","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=348998"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/348998\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/348999"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=348998"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=348998"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=348998"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}