{"id":142429,"date":"2025-09-17T01:46:06","date_gmt":"2025-09-17T01:46:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/142429\/"},"modified":"2025-09-17T01:46:06","modified_gmt":"2025-09-17T01:46:06","slug":"tim-bradley-has-no-doubt-who-wins-shakur-stevenson-vs-teofimo-lopez-you-will-not-beat-him","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/142429\/","title":{"rendered":"Tim Bradley Has No Doubt Who Wins Shakur Stevenson vs Teofimo Lopez: &#8220;You Will Not Beat Him&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.secondsout.com\/topic\/tim-bradley\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Tim Bradley<\/a> has shared his verdict on the outcome of a potential clash between <a href=\"https:\/\/www.secondsout.com\/topic\/shakur-stevenson\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Shakur Stevenson<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.secondsout.com\/topic\/teofimo-lopez\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Teofimo Lopez<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.secondsout.com\/news\/shakur-stevenson-title-plans-next-fight\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">It has been heavily speculated in the last couple of weeks that that highly-rated American duo are on the verge of agreeing to face each other next.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Newark-native Stevenson currently reigns as the WBC lightweight champion, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/boxing\/story\/_\/id\/45727691\/shakur-stevenson-tops-william-zepeda-unanimous-decision-keep-belt\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">making the latest defence of his belt back in July when he defeated Mexico\u2019s William Zepeda via unanimous decision<\/a> in what was a career best performance by the 28-year-old.<\/p>\n<p>As for Lopez, \u2018The Takeover\u2019 made the third consecutive defence of his WBO super-lightweight title on May 2 when he outpointed mandatory challenger and countryman Arnold Barboza Jr at the iconic Times Square in New York City.<\/p>\n<p>The bout has generated a lot of buzz in the boxing world, and one man who has now had his say is former two-weight world champion Bradley, who defeated the likes of Manny Pacquiao and Juan Manuel Marquez during his own career.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?t=16&amp;v=408aVwzRUJ4&amp;feature=youtu.be\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Speaking on his own YouTube channel<\/a>, Hall of Fame inductee Bradley didn\u2019t hesitate to back Stevenson to defeat Lopez in emphatic fashion, as he claims the WBC lightweight champion \u2018already knows\u2019 he can get the better of his fellow countryman.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNow you\u2019re going to fight another G.O.A.T of another generation, of this generation? That\u2019s going to be a problem my big dog.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m letting you know and your fans know too, that\u2019s going to be a problem because Teofimo Lopez, you\u2019re not beating Shakur Stevenson, you\u2019re not.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI know your habits, he knows your habits, he sees already how to beat you, he knows already how to beat you.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Stevenson has emerged as one of the biggest stars in the sport over the last few years and he could back these claims up once again should he go on to defeat \u2018The Takeover\u2019 and become a four-weight world champion in the process.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Tim Bradley has shared his verdict on the outcome of a potential clash between Shakur Stevenson and Teofimo&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":142430,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[2560,101,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-142429","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-boxing","8":"tag-boxing","9":"tag-sports","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142429","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=142429"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142429\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/142430"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=142429"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=142429"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=142429"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}