{"id":455623,"date":"2026-02-05T14:32:07","date_gmt":"2026-02-05T14:32:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/455623\/"},"modified":"2026-02-05T14:32:07","modified_gmt":"2026-02-05T14:32:07","slug":"tim-bradley-names-new-face-of-us-boxing-he-can-be-more-popular-than-mayweather","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/455623\/","title":{"rendered":"Tim Bradley Names New Face Of US Boxing: “He Can Be More Popular Than Mayweather"},"content":{"rendered":"

Hall of Fame inductee Tim Bradley<\/a> has revealed who he believes is the brand new face of boxing.<\/p>\n

Bradley enjoyed an exceptional professional boxing career of his own, earning himself a spot in the International Boxing Hall of Fame back in 2022.<\/p>\n

The California-native captured world titles at light-welterweight and welterweight during his tenure and would produce a number of legacy-defining victories over the likes of Manny Pacquiao and Juan Manuel Marquez.<\/p>\n

After he was beaten by Pacquiao in the 37th and final bout of his career back in 2016<\/a>, Bradley announced his retirement from the sport and would go on to work as a commentator and analyst for ESPN\u2019s boxing coverage.<\/p>\n

Speaking on his own YouTube channel recently<\/a>, Bradley made no mistake in naming Shakur Stevenson as the \u2018face of American boxing\u2019 as he claims the unbeaten 28-year-old can go on to be more popular than former pound-for-pound superstar Floyd Mayweather.<\/p>\n

\u201cI feel like Shakur can be that face of American boxing that we\u2019ve always had. we had Floyd Mayweather. I think he can be as popular as Floyd Mayweather, if not more popular than Floyd Mayweather.\u201d<\/p>\n

Stevenson made his long-awaited return to the spotlight last weekend when he put on a masterclass to defeat countryman Teofimo Lopez via unanimous decision to capture the WBO world super-lightweight title<\/a> and become the fastest four-division world champion in boxing history.<\/p>\n

Attention has now turned to who Stevenson could possibly take on next, with a clash against Britain\u2019s Conor Benn one of the options.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Hall of Fame inductee Tim Bradley has revealed who he believes is the brand new face of boxing.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":455624,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[447],"tags":[703,49,48,82],"class_list":["post-455623","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\/455623","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=455623"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/455623\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/455624"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=455623"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=455623"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=455623"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}