{"id":420391,"date":"2026-01-20T01:17:10","date_gmt":"2026-01-20T01:17:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/420391\/"},"modified":"2026-01-20T01:17:10","modified_gmt":"2026-01-20T01:17:10","slug":"tim-bradley-says-boxings-youngest-champion-is-a-problem-for-haney-stevenson-and-lopez","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/420391\/","title":{"rendered":"Tim Bradley says boxing’s youngest champion is a problem for Haney, Stevenson and Lopez"},"content":{"rendered":"

Tim Bradley has named the fighter that he feels is \u2018a problem\u2019 for several world champions, including Shakur Stevenson<\/a>, Teofimo Lopez<\/a> and Devin Haney<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Many believe the aforementioned Americans to be the top dogs of their respective divisions, with all of them having established themselves as top 10 pound-for-pound operators.<\/p>\n

At lightweight, three-weight world champion Stevenson is widely regarded as the very best, especially following his WBC title defence against William Zepeda<\/a> in July.<\/p>\n

Lopez, meanwhile, looks to extend his supremacy at 140lbs when he defends his WBO belt against Stevenson at Madison Square Garden, New York, on January 31.<\/a><\/p>\n

As for WBO champion Haney, a dominant victory to dethrone Brian Norman Jr in November has made a sizable imprint on the welterweight division, putting him above fellow titlists Mario Barrios, Lewis Crocker and Rolando Romero in the consensus rankings.<\/p>\n

And yet, while these three fighters are now approaching their 30s, WBO lightweight champion Abdullah Mason, aged just 21, is slowly but surely nipping at their heels.<\/p>\n

The young prodigy claimed his major title at 135lbs with a unanimous decision victory over Sam Noakes, who gave a plucky effort himself, in November.<\/p>\n

And while we are yet to see him dive into the deep end of elite competition, Bradley nonetheless believes that Mason represents a serious issue for any champion.<\/p>\n

Speaking on his YouTube channel<\/a>, Hall of Famer Bradley predicts a tremendously bright future for the sport\u2019s youngest current world champion.<\/p>\n

\u201cNot many guys win world championships at the age of 21. That\u2019s rare territory. For him to do it in his first 12-round fight, and do it overseas, that should tell you already how strong, mentally, this kid is.<\/p>\n

\u201cAbdullah is still raw but, even with his rawness, and his toughness and his grit \u2013 and his skills on top of that \u2013 he is a problem.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen I say [he\u2019s] a problem for everybody, [that means] for everybody. That means Shakur; that means Haney; that means Teofimo Lopez; that means [IBF super-lightweight champion Richardson] Hitchins. All these dudes, they\u2019re going to have issues with this guy.\u201d<\/p>\n

With many expressing similar thoughts to Bradley, Mason is widely expected to remain at 135lbs, at least for a short while longer, before bidding to become a multi-weight world champion.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Tim Bradley has named the fighter that he feels is \u2018a problem\u2019 for several world champions, including Shakur…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":420392,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[447],"tags":[703,49,48,82],"class_list":["post-420391","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\/420391","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=420391"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/420391\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/420392"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=420391"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=420391"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=420391"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}