{"id":383305,"date":"2026-01-22T01:53:21","date_gmt":"2026-01-22T01:53:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/383305\/"},"modified":"2026-01-22T01:53:21","modified_gmt":"2026-01-22T01:53:21","slug":"mikey-garcia-delivers-honest-verdict-on-shakur-stevenson-vs-teofimo-lopez-thats-my-only-doubt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/383305\/","title":{"rendered":"Mikey Garcia delivers honest verdict on Shakur Stevenson vs Teofimo Lopez: “That’s my only doubt”"},"content":{"rendered":"

Mikey Garcia<\/a> is the latest big name to weigh in on the upcoming Shakur Stevenson<\/a> vs. Teofimo Lopez<\/a> showdown.<\/p>\n

Reigning WBC lightweight champion Stevenson moves up to super-lightweight to challenge Lopez for his WBO belt<\/a> at Madison Square Garden in New York on January 31.<\/p>\n

Ahead of the bout, a number of boxing stars have made their thoughts known<\/a>, and now Garcia has offered his take, as Stevenson bids to match his accolades of being a four-division world champion.<\/p>\n

Speaking to Fight Hub TV<\/a>, Garcia broke down what he thinks is the biggest factor in the Lopez vs. Stevenson fight.<\/p>\n

\u201cGreat match-up, tough fight. I want to see which Teofimo shows up because sometimes it\u2019s Teofimo the great fighter who beat Lomachenko, who beat Taylor. That\u2019s a tough Teofimo.<\/p>\n

\u201cBut then we\u2019ve also seen him in off nights, so that\u2019s kind of the only doubt, the only question that I have, which Teofimo is going to show up?\u201d<\/p>\n

He then revealed he believes the size advantage favours Lopez, but admits Stevenson could prove him wrong.<\/p>\n

\u201cI would think Teofimo being that technically he\u2019s a bigger fighter, bigger size, he\u2019s been at the weight class a little more and then just maybe built into it more, I would think he would have to use that size as an advantage, but it\u2019s hard to say because Shakur\u2019s f**king good at what he does.\u201d<\/p>\n

With just over a week to go until Lopez and Stevenson meet, fans won\u2019t have long to wait to see whether Garcia\u2019s view may come to fruition.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Mikey Garcia is the latest big name to weigh in on the upcoming Shakur Stevenson vs. Teofimo Lopez…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":383306,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[2560,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-383305","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-boxing","tag-boxing","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/383305","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=383305"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/383305\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/383306"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=383305"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=383305"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=383305"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}