{"id":448701,"date":"2026-02-02T07:01:20","date_gmt":"2026-02-02T07:01:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/448701\/"},"modified":"2026-02-02T07:01:20","modified_gmt":"2026-02-02T07:01:20","slug":"shakur-stevenson-hypes-win-in-teofimo-lopez-jr-fight-boxing-so-easy-for-me","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/448701\/","title":{"rendered":"Shakur Stevenson Hypes Win in Teofimo Lopez Jr. Fight, &#8216;Boxing So Easy for Me&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium css-1vqr2el\">After defeating Teofimo Lopez Jr. in dominant fashion to win the WBO junior welterweight title on Saturday night, Shakur Stevenson took a victory lap on social media.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium css-1vqr2el\">Stevenson hyped his win over Lopez and declared that the sport of boxing is &#8220;so easy&#8221; after he became the fastest fighter to become a four-division champion.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium css-1vqr2el\">Stevenson defeated Lopez by scores of 119-109 on all three judges&#8217; scorecards, improving to 25-0 in his career with 11 KOs.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium css-1vqr2el\">Following his win, Stevenson revealed that he would be willing to move up to 160 pounds to challenge Conor Benn while he continues to try to cement himself as one of the best fighters in the world.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium css-1vqr2el\">&#8220;It&#8217;s a fighter in here right now and he motivated me tonight too. Where is Conor Benn?&#8221; Stevenson <a class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-inherit MuiLink-root MuiLink-underlineAlways MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__ui__link__medium_strong css-lu48cp\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/boxing\/story\/_\/id\/47794632\/shakur-stevenson-reigns-supreme-teofimo-lopez-jr-yet-keeps-hunting-bigger-tests-conor-benn\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">said in the ring<\/a>. &#8220;Conor Benn, we could get it banging, boy. I want that same rehydration clause that you put on [Chris] Eubank Jr. and I want the fight. Sign the contract. Let&#8217;s make it happen.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"After defeating Teofimo Lopez Jr. in dominant fashion to win the WBO junior welterweight title on Saturday night,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":448702,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[447],"tags":[703,49,48,82],"class_list":["post-448701","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\/448701","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=448701"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/448701\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/448702"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=448701"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=448701"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=448701"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}