{"id":733310,"date":"2026-06-13T02:48:08","date_gmt":"2026-06-13T02:48:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/733310\/"},"modified":"2026-06-13T02:48:08","modified_gmt":"2026-06-13T02:48:08","slug":"shakur-stevenson-doubles-down-on-tim-tszyu-vs-errol-spence-prediction-he-cant-beat-him","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/733310\/","title":{"rendered":"Shakur Stevenson doubles down on Tim Tszyu vs Errol Spence prediction: “He can’t beat him”"},"content":{"rendered":"

Shakur Stevenson has maintained his prediction for Errol Spence Jr<\/a> vs Tim Tszyu<\/a>, believing that one man will be too \u201cmentally tough\u201d for the other.<\/p>\n

The two former world champions will collide in Australia on July 25, meeting at a catchweight of 158lbs to accommodate Spence\u2019s inactivity<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Despite Tszyu pushing for a super-welterweight contest, his opponent clearly felt an extra 4lbs was appropriate following his three-year layoff.<\/p>\n

This lengthy hiatus came after Spence suffered a ninth-round stoppage defeat to Terence Crawford, who became the undisputed king at 147lbs in surprisingly one-sided fashion.<\/p>\n

Prior to that, Spence had claimed his WBC, IBF and WBA titles with respective victories over Shawn Porter, Kell Brook and Yordenis Ugas, though a move up in weight has always seemed inevitable.<\/p>\n

Now, the 36-year-old looks to reignite his career against Tszyu, who comes off two points victories following his stoppage defeat to Sebastian Fundora last July.<\/p>\n

While their rematch ended in round seven, Tszyu had shown tremendous grit against Fundora in 2024, only to lose his WBO title by split decision.<\/p>\n

The Australian would then suffer a third-round stoppage defeat to Bakhram Murtazaliev later that year, with four-division world champion Stevenson telling All The Smoke Fight<\/a> that he feels Spence is a level above.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think [Spence] gonna do good. I wish Errol the best; I hope Errol goes in there and beats Tim Tszyu up.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m an Errol Spence fan; I was cool with Errol Spence before that [Crawford] fight. I know Errol is mentally tough \u2013 Errol is a dog when it comes to fighting, so I don\u2019t think Tim Tszyu can beat him.\u201d<\/p>\n

Stevenson has previously suggested that Tszyu could get \u201cdestroyed\u201d by Spence<\/a>, believing the 31-year-old\u2019s style is tailor-made for \u2018The Truth\u2019.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Shakur Stevenson has maintained his prediction for Errol Spence Jr vs Tim Tszyu, believing that one man will…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":733311,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[447],"tags":[703,49,48,82],"class_list":["post-733310","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\/733310","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=733310"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/733310\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/733311"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=733310"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=733310"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=733310"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}