{"id":391638,"date":"2026-01-26T17:50:07","date_gmt":"2026-01-26T17:50:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/391638\/"},"modified":"2026-01-26T17:50:07","modified_gmt":"2026-01-26T17:50:07","slug":"keyshawn-davis-changes-his-teofimo-lopez-vs-shakur-stevenson-prediction-he-can-ko-him","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/391638\/","title":{"rendered":"Keyshawn Davis changes his Teofimo Lopez vs Shakur Stevenson prediction: “He can KO him”"},"content":{"rendered":"

This weekend, Shakur Stevenson<\/a> attempts to dethrone Teofimo Lopez<\/a> in the super-lightweight division and his good friend, Keyshawn Davis<\/a>, has now changed his mind on how he thinks the fight will play out.<\/p>\n

Stevenson has reigned at each of featherweight, super-featherweight and lightweight, but the undefeated Newark-born sensation is set for his toughest test to date, up against the arguable standout fighter of the 140lb division.<\/p>\n

Just three weeks ago, Keyshawn Davis admitted that Lopez could get the better of Stevenson<\/a>, despite his friendship with the reigning WBC lightweight world champion<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u201cI see it starting off slow and then I see as Shakur wins the first round, as Shakur wins the second round, slowly I think that Teofimo is going to start picking it up and start imposing his will and it\u2019s just going to go from there. That is how I think it is going to go \u2026 One thing I can say, though, Teo can fight.\u201d<\/p>\n

However, after witnessing Stevenson\u2019s preparation first hand, \u2018The Businessman\u2019 has u-turned on his prediction for the contest, telling Fight Hub TV<\/a> that the 28-year-old could hand Lopez a first stoppage defeat.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think that Shakur has got a good possibility of stopping Teofimo, because of how dominant he has been in this camp.<\/p>\n

\u201cHis focus level [has improved], he has taken it a lot more serious. I\u2019m not saying that he didn\u2019t in his other camps, but he has taken this fight a lot more serious and he has got a chance of stopping Teo, for sure.\u201d<\/p>\n

Davis appears on the undercard on Saturday night<\/a>, as he is tasked with Jamaine Ortiz in a super-lightweight scrap of his own on the Madison Square Garden bill.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"This weekend, Shakur Stevenson attempts to dethrone Teofimo Lopez in the super-lightweight division and his good friend, Keyshawn…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":391639,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[2560,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-391638","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\/391638","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=391638"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/391638\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/391639"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=391638"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=391638"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=391638"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}