{"id":344847,"date":"2025-12-31T15:22:12","date_gmt":"2025-12-31T15:22:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/344847\/"},"modified":"2025-12-31T15:22:12","modified_gmt":"2025-12-31T15:22:12","slug":"zab-judah-sees-only-one-winner-in-teofimo-lopez-vs-shakur-stevenson-annihilation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/344847\/","title":{"rendered":"Zab Judah sees only one winner in Teofimo Lopez vs Shakur Stevenson: &#8220;Annihilation&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Former two-weight world champion Zab Judah expects one man to \u201coverwhelm\u201d the other when <a href=\"https:\/\/boxingnewsonline.net\/boxer\/teofimo-lopez\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Teofimo Lopez<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/boxingnewsonline.net\/boxer\/shakur-stevenson\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Shakur Stevenson<\/a> meet on January 31.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/sport\/live\/2023\/jun\/10\/josh-taylor-v-teofimo-lopez-wbo-junior-welterweight-title-fight-live\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Lopez will defend his WBO super-lightweight title<\/a> at Madison Square Garden in New York, a venue where Brooklyn-born Judah fought on four occasions, winning twice and losing a brace.<\/p>\n<p>Fellow Brooklynite <a href=\"https:\/\/boxingnewsonline.net\/news\/lamont-roach-on-lopez-stevenson\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Lopez enters his fourth title defence as a slight underdog against Stevenson<\/a>, who is aiming to become a four-weight world champion. While many predict a finely balanced, tactical contest, Judah told <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=AL6DuXh0cPQ&amp;t=12s\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">MillCity Boxing<\/a> he believes the fight could prove one-sided.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnnihilation. Decapitation. I feel like Teo\u2019s a very dominant force, but I think that the skills of Shakur Stevenson is going to overwhelm Teo. He\u2019s never seen this type of action yet.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>With Terence Crawford\u2019s retirement leaving a vacancy near the top of boxing\u2019s pound-for-pound rankings, a dominant performance from Stevenson could elevate him higher than ever before \u2014 particularly if he handles Lopez in the manner Judah suggests.<\/p>\n<p>Despite expectations that the January 31 showdown will be a chess match, Judah hopes both fighters commit fully and leave the ring knowing nothing was left behind.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTeo\u2019s not going to back down. Shakur\u2019s not going to back down. We\u2019re going to get an exciting 12-round fight, or however long it\u2019s gonna last.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m just begging both guys to come in there and leave everything they got in that ring.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Lopez\u2013Stevenson undercard has also been announced and features two world title bouts. Carlos Adames defends his WBC middleweight title against Austin \u2018Ammo\u2019 Williams, while another Brooklyn native, Bruce Carrington, faces Carlos Castro for the vacant WBC featherweight belt. Former lightweight champion Keyshawn Davis also returns at super-lightweight against Jamaine Ortiz.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Former two-weight world champion Zab Judah expects one man to \u201coverwhelm\u201d the other when Teofimo Lopez and Shakur&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":310692,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[2560,101,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-344847","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\/344847","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=344847"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/344847\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/310692"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=344847"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=344847"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=344847"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}