{"id":227014,"date":"2025-10-26T20:04:07","date_gmt":"2025-10-26T20:04:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/227014\/"},"modified":"2025-10-26T20:04:07","modified_gmt":"2025-10-26T20:04:07","slug":"james-toney-makes-emphatic-prediction-for-shakur-stevenson-vs-teofimo-lopez-you-know-what","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/227014\/","title":{"rendered":"James Toney Makes Emphatic Prediction For Shakur Stevenson vs Teofimo Lopez: “You Know What?”"},"content":{"rendered":"

Hall of Famer James Toney<\/a> has predicted the outcome of the proposed match-up between Shakur Stevenson<\/a> and Teofimo Lopez<\/a>.<\/p>\n

It has been reported in recent weeks<\/a> that reigning WBO super-lightweight champion Lopez will make the fourth defence of his crown against Stevenson in the first few months of 2026.<\/p>\n

Stevenson currently holds the WBC lightweight title, making the most recent defence of his belt in July when he put on a career-best performance against Mexico\u2019s William Zepeda in New York City.<\/p>\n

Lopez returned to the ring back in May when he defeated mandatory challenger Arnold Barboza Jr via unanimous decision to keep a hold of his WBO world title at 140lbs and rack up his sixth straight victory.<\/p>\n

With the proposed Lopez vs. Stevenson match-up on the horizon, some of boxing\u2019s biggest names have made their thoughts clear on the bout<\/a>, and now three-weight world champion Toney is the latest to do so.<\/p>\n

In an interview with Mill City Boxing<\/a>, Toney sent a stern message out to Stevenson, as he backs Lopez to prevail against the 28-year-old.<\/p>\n

\u201cMan you know what? I\u2019m not talking about Shakur Stevenson \u2026 The guy is disrespectful, to me, in my era he\u2019d get crushed, crushed up, f**ked up, and Teo will beat him.\u201d<\/p>\n

Lopez has found himself on an impressive run of form since suffering the first defeat of his professional career to Australia\u2019s George Kambosos Jr back in November of 2021.<\/p>\n

The Brooklyn star returned to the world title picture just over two years ago when he outpointed former undisputed super-lightweight champion Josh Taylor to pick up the WBO super-lightweight crown, and has successfully made three defences to date.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Hall of Famer James Toney has predicted the outcome of the proposed match-up between Shakur Stevenson and Teofimo…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":227015,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[2560,101,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-227014","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\/227014","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=227014"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227014\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/227015"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=227014"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=227014"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=227014"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}