{"id":693392,"date":"2026-05-25T21:12:09","date_gmt":"2026-05-25T21:12:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/693392\/"},"modified":"2026-05-25T21:12:09","modified_gmt":"2026-05-25T21:12:09","slug":"teddy-atlas-says-unbeaten-knockout-artist-is-the-next-star-in-the-sport","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/693392\/","title":{"rendered":"Teddy Atlas says unbeaten knockout artist is ‘the next star in the sport’"},"content":{"rendered":"

Teddy Atlas has pinpointed who he believes to be the next major star to emerge in boxing.<\/p>\n

Atlas knows a thing or two about helping to discover major stars<\/a>, having worked with a young Mike Tyson<\/a> during the early stages of his career, whilst also training fighters such as Michael Moorer and Tim Bradley.<\/p>\n

Along with his training career, Atlas has also become a highly-respected analyst, and so his expert insight into the sport is always taken seriously by boxing fans.<\/p>\n

With that in mind, Atlas has revealed who he thinks has what it takes to be one of the next flagship stars of boxing, with newly-crowned WBO super-middleweight champion Hamzah Sheeraz the man in question.<\/p>\n

Sheeraz became world champion for the first time on Saturday when he knocked out the unheralded Alem Begic inside two rounds<\/a> to secure the vacant title at the Pyramids of Giza in Egypt.<\/p>\n

While Atlas was critical of the match-up, he posted on social media<\/a> to heap praise on Sheeraz and has backed him to have plenty of success.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe way these organizations put fighters in title bouts is truly ridiculous, but Sheeraz did what he should & got rid of him quickly. He\u2019s the next star in the sport!\u201d<\/p>\n

Sheeraz has won 23 of his 24 fights, 19 of those wins by knockout, with his only blemish coming when he was held to a draw against Carlos Adames in their WBC middleweight title fight in February 2025.<\/p>\n

Since stepping up to 168lbs, Sheeraz has looked extremely impressive, and could be set for a showdown with Canelo Alvarez<\/a> in the future, but first the Mexican superstar challenges Christian Mbilli for the WBC super-middleweight title in September.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Teddy Atlas has pinpointed who he believes to be the next major star to emerge in boxing. Atlas…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":693393,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[447],"tags":[703,49,48,82],"class_list":["post-693392","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\/693392","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=693392"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/693392\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/693393"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=693392"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=693392"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=693392"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}