{"id":418902,"date":"2026-01-19T07:46:09","date_gmt":"2026-01-19T07:46:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/418902\/"},"modified":"2026-01-19T07:46:09","modified_gmt":"2026-01-19T07:46:09","slug":"shakur-stevenson-predicts-prime-oscar-de-la-hoya-vs-canelo-hes-on-another-level","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/418902\/","title":{"rendered":"Shakur Stevenson predicts prime Oscar De La Hoya vs Canelo: “He’s on another level”"},"content":{"rendered":"

Shakur Stevenson<\/a> has had his say on how a fantasy matchup between Oscar De La Hoya<\/a> and Canelo Alvarez<\/a> might unfold.<\/p>\n

In a prime-for-prime battle, it is difficult to say whether their hypothetical encounter would take place at super-welterweight or middleweight, especially given that Canelo\u2019s most notable performances have all been above 147lbs.<\/p>\n

At 154lbs, the Mexican defeated the likes of Austin Trout and a faded Shane Mosley during his world title reign, before getting outboxed by Floyd Mayweather in 2013.<\/p>\n

A string of more impressive performances then came at 160lbs, where Alvarez claimed his WBC belt with a points victory over Miguel Cotto and eventually faced Gennady Golovkin in two compelling contests.<\/a><\/p>\n

The first of which saw Canelo come away with a highly contentious draw, though many deemed his majority decision victory in their rematch<\/a> to be a fair result.<\/p>\n

As for De La Hoya, a move up to super-welterweight saw him capture the WBC belt in 2001, before making two successful defences against Fernando Vargas and Luis Ramon Campas.<\/p>\n

A defeat to Mosley in 2003 then inspired a further jump up to middleweight, where the \u2018Golden Boy\u2019 claimed the WBO title by dethroning Felix Sturm on points.<\/p>\n

Whether at 154lbs or 160lbs, though, Stevenson has opined in an interview with The Art Of Dialogue<\/a> that a prime-for-prime clash between De La Hoya and Canelo would be defined by a battle of offensive and defensive prowess.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m the biggest Canelo fan, because I think he\u2019s really one of the greatest Mexicans to ever do it.<\/p>\n

\u201cBut to be better than Oscar, in his prime, is hard. They\u2019re both high-level fighters but Canelo, on the defensive side\u2026 I would say he was better than Oscar.<\/p>\n

\u201cOscar, on the offensive side, I would say was better [than Canelo]. His jab, and the way he set things up, is on a whole different level.\u201d<\/p>\n

Stevenson agrees with the interviewer that a prime De La Hoya would likely emerge triumphant, but rates Canelo\u2019s defensive skills high enough to make their fantasy fight a difficult one to call.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Shakur Stevenson has had his say on how a fantasy matchup between Oscar De La Hoya and Canelo…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":418903,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[447],"tags":[703,49,48,82],"class_list":["post-418902","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\/418902","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=418902"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/418902\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/418903"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=418902"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=418902"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=418902"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}