{"id":554234,"date":"2026-03-23T00:20:07","date_gmt":"2026-03-23T00:20:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/554234\/"},"modified":"2026-03-23T00:20:07","modified_gmt":"2026-03-23T00:20:07","slug":"zab-judah-says-one-move-may-cost-shakur-stevenson-his-undefeated-record-nobody-can-dispute-that","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/554234\/","title":{"rendered":"Zab Judah says one move may cost Shakur Stevenson his undefeated record: “Nobody can dispute that”"},"content":{"rendered":"

Zab Judah has offered a few words of advice for Shakur Stevenson<\/a>, warning him against making the same mistake that saw him lose to the likes of Floyd Mayweather and Miguel Cotto<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The unbeaten southpaw became a four-division world champion in January, outpointing Teofimo Lopez with a terrifically dominant performance<\/a> to claim his WBO super-lightweight title.<\/p>\n

Prior to producing that career-defining display, though, many questioned whether Stevenson would be too small against a fully-fledged 140lb champion like Lopez.<\/p>\n

As it happened, the slick technician was contending with a slight size disadvantage but allowed his extraordinary skills to shine through, dropping just one round on all three judges\u2019 scorecards<\/a>.<\/p>\n

It is therefore worth considering whether the 28-year-old will ever be beaten and, if so, would it simply be a case of him facing a naturally bigger man?<\/p>\n

According to Judah, who became an undisputed welterweight champion but felt undersized while competing at 147lbs, Stevenson should avoid becoming a victim of popular demand.<\/p>\n

In other words, the former two-division world champion has told MillCity Boxing<\/a> that the American would be most wise to stay at 140lbs.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe has a small frame. At 140[lbs], Shakur\u2019s going to shut s**t down. He\u2019d be like how I was [at 147lbs]. I was competing with 147[lb fighters], but I was a small guy.<\/p>\n

\u201cEverybody was bigger than me. My set of skills [was] the only thing that could get me in there with those guys.<\/p>\n

\u201cShakur got skills\u2026 But why give a disadvantage to yourself? Stay at 140[lbs] and become the f**king king. If he stays at 140, and chooses not to go up to 147, nobody can dispute that.\u201d<\/p>\n

Stevenson would, indeed, be putting himself at a size disadvantage against the likes of Ryan Garcia and Devin Haney, despite both world champions previously competing at lightweight.<\/p>\n

And so, as Judah says, it would perhaps be best for him to remain at 140lbs, or even drop back down to 135lbs, for the time being.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Zab Judah has offered a few words of advice for Shakur Stevenson, warning him against making the same…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":554235,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[447],"tags":[703,49,48,82],"class_list":["post-554234","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\/554234","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=554234"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/554234\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/554235"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=554234"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=554234"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=554234"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}