{"id":455991,"date":"2026-02-05T18:44:07","date_gmt":"2026-02-05T18:44:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/455991\/"},"modified":"2026-02-05T18:44:07","modified_gmt":"2026-02-05T18:44:07","slug":"roy-jones-jr-advises-teofimo-lopez-to-make-a-major-change-after-stevenson-defeat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/455991\/","title":{"rendered":"Roy Jones Jr advises Teofimo Lopez to make a major change after Stevenson defeat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On Saturday night, <a href=\"https:\/\/boxingnewsonline.net\/boxer\/teofimo-lopez\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Teofimo Lopez<\/a> fell well short of expectations as he was dominated by <a href=\"https:\/\/boxingnewsonline.net\/boxer\/shakur-stevenson\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Shakur Stevenson<\/a> in a fight that cost him his world title. Since then, Lopez\u2019s father and trainer has criticised his performance, and <a href=\"https:\/\/boxingnewsonline.net\/boxer\/roy-jones-jr\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Roy Jones Jr<\/a> has now had his say on those comments.<\/p>\n<p>On three identical scorecards, Lopez won only one round in a fight that was anticipated to be a 50\/50 affair beforehand, as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/sport\/boxing\/articles\/crle6nxz7nxo\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Stevenson cruised to a comfortable victory at Madison Square Garden<\/a>, with Lopez being unable to provide any resistance.<\/p>\n<p>Following the scrap, Lopez Sr has spoken out and slammed the display of his son, telling <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/15R5E8wUX80?si=aSMgmHV83X2mupC-\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Seconds Out<\/a> that Lopez Jr failed to follow the game plan that he had set out beforehand.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI was 100 percent sure we were going to win. For some reason, the game plan, my son didn\u2019t do what I told him he was supposed to do. His rhythm was supposed to be different.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCongratulations to [Stevenson] for winning, but that was not my son in there. I think the media \u2014 everything leading up to this fight was talking already about Shakur fighting in May.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe winner [of this fight] was supposed to fight in May. I think that probably got to him.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>On the <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/ry1G_MbQJEI?si=qxed__Kf2Tf4uxcA\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">All The Smoke Fight YouTube channel<\/a>, four-division world champion Jones Jr suggested that Lopez should seek out a trainer that better listens to him and provides him with what he needs.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is why at some point, as a man, you have got to go and get your own team.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou can\u2019t be there and just depend on him, because a lot of the time father\u2019s get mad and they are gonna blame everything on you because they\u2019re your father and they\u2019re gonna think \u2018well, he didn\u2019t do what I told him to do\u2019.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou gotta stop allowing him to tell you what to do, so that he can\u2019t ever blame that on you.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAt this point, somebody should be listening to what he [Lopez Jr.] says more.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/boxingnewsonline.net\/news\/teofimo-lopez-on-career-move\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Lopez is now eyeing up a move to the welterweight division<\/a>, whether he makes that jump with his father in his corner or not remains to be seen.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"On Saturday night, Teofimo Lopez fell well short of expectations as he was dominated by Shakur Stevenson in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":455992,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[447],"tags":[703,49,48,82],"class_list":["post-455991","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\/455991","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=455991"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/455991\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/455992"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=455991"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=455991"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=455991"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}