{"id":402409,"date":"2026-02-01T14:36:09","date_gmt":"2026-02-01T14:36:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/402409\/"},"modified":"2026-02-01T14:36:09","modified_gmt":"2026-02-01T14:36:09","slug":"shakur-stevenson-wins-fourth-world-title-and-calls-out-conor-benn-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/402409\/","title":{"rendered":"Shakur Stevenson wins fourth world title and calls out Conor Benn"},"content":{"rendered":"

American Shakur Stevenson dominated Teofimo Lopez to secure the WBO light-welterweight belt by unanimous decision at Madison Square Garden.<\/p>\n

The 28-year-old, who has won all 25 of his professional bouts, is now a four-weight world champion, with the judges scoring the fight 119-109 119-109 119-109.<\/p>\n

Post-fight tensions were high as Stevenson called out Conor Benn, who aggressively entered the ring and exchanged words.<\/p>\n

“You’re too small for me,” Benn told DAZN.<\/p>\n

“We can do it next. Come up to welterweight with the big dogs. You’re a small, little man.”<\/p>\n

Following a rematch victory over Chris Eubank in November, Benn reiterated his intention to drop down to welterweight<\/a> and take on the division’s world champions.<\/p>\n

The 29-year-old jumped up two weight classes to fight Eubank, with the pair agreeing to a rehydration clause that prohibited putting on more than 10lb between Friday’s weigh-in and Saturday morning.<\/p>\n

Benn has fought at welterweight and middleweight during his career, while Stevenson has moved up from featherweight to light-welterweight.<\/p>\n

“I like the beef and story behind it,” Stevenson said.<\/p>\n

“I am a businessman at the end of the day and he did a rehydration clause with Chris Eubank, who was in the ring half-dead. Why can’t he do the same thing?”<\/p>\n

Both fighters are signed with Matchroom Boxing, which could make agreeing on a weight easier.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"American Shakur Stevenson dominated Teofimo Lopez to secure the WBO light-welterweight belt by unanimous decision at Madison Square…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":402236,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[2560,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-402409","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\/402409","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=402409"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/402409\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/402236"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=402409"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=402409"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=402409"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}