{"id":469337,"date":"2026-02-12T03:10:06","date_gmt":"2026-02-12T03:10:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/469337\/"},"modified":"2026-02-12T03:10:06","modified_gmt":"2026-02-12T03:10:06","slug":"hall-of-fame-legend-says-shakur-stevenson-needs-to-fight-like-him-hes-boring","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/469337\/","title":{"rendered":"Hall of Fame legend says Shakur Stevenson needs to fight like him: “He’s boring”"},"content":{"rendered":"

Shakur Stevenson<\/a> received high praise from most of the boxing world for his recent victory over Teofimo Lopez<\/a> but one legend from the sport wasn\u2019t as impressed as everybody else.<\/p>\n

Stevenson defeated Lopez by unanimous decision<\/a> at Madison Square Garden in New York last month, winning the WBO super-lightweight title and becoming a four-division world champion in the process.<\/p>\n

The 28-year-old dominated the action as the three judges all scored the bout 119-109 in his favour, as Lopez struggled to cope with his opponent\u2019s ability.<\/p>\n

Many big stars have commended Stevenson for his win<\/a>, suggesting that he could go on to be one of the most exciting names in the entire sport, but Hall of Fame inductee James Toney doesn\u2019t seem to agree with that sentiment.<\/p>\n

Speaking to Fight Hub TV<\/a>, Toney felt the win over Lopez was boring, insisting that Stevenson isn\u2019t as impressive as he was during his own career.<\/p>\n

\u201cI saw the first six rounds. It was boring. He doesn\u2019t do it like I did it. If he did it like I did, combinations and punches and putting stuff together, he would be exciting, but it was [boring]. He needs to get the dog in him.\u201d<\/p>\n

Toney was a three-division world champion during his illustrious career, one weight class fewer than what Stevenson has managed thus far.<\/p>\n

\u2018Lights Out\u2019 won 77 of his 92 fights, 47 of those by knockout, giving him a KO percentage of 61%. Stevenson is unbeaten at 25-0, with 11 wins by stoppage, with his KO percentage standing at 44%, and it appears Toney would want to see that improved in the future.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Shakur Stevenson received high praise from most of the boxing world for his recent victory over Teofimo Lopez…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":466189,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[447],"tags":[703,49,48,82],"class_list":["post-469337","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\/469337","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=469337"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/469337\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/466189"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=469337"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=469337"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=469337"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}