{"id":419012,"date":"2026-02-11T01:20:07","date_gmt":"2026-02-11T01:20:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/419012\/"},"modified":"2026-02-11T01:20:07","modified_gmt":"2026-02-11T01:20:07","slug":"shakur-stevenson-dares-ufc-champ-ilia-topuria-come-fight-me","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/419012\/","title":{"rendered":"Shakur Stevenson dares UFC champ Ilia Topuria \u2014 \u2018Come fight me\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">\u201cThe UFC will never be better than boxing,\u201d Crawford said. \u201cUFC is good for what they do, and we\u2019re good for what we do. You know what I mean? You\u2019ve got to think, if I can\u2019t whoop you with my hands, I can kick you, I can take you down. It\u2019s a whole different mental capacity than just kicking, punching.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">When asked if former UFC two-division champion Jon Jones would \u201cdominate\u201d in boxing, Stevenson said \u201chell no\u201d before daring UFC lightweight titleholder Ilia Topuria to \u201ccome fight me.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">\u201cIt ain\u2019t even close,\u201d Stevenson said about the difference in disciplines. \u201cThe skill level is different.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cThe UFC will never be better than boxing,\u201d Crawford said. \u201cUFC is good for what they do, and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":419013,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[2560,30874,30367,101,914,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-419012","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-boxing","tag-boxing","tag-boxing-news-results","tag-latest-ufc-mma-news","tag-sports","tag-ufc-news","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/419012","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=419012"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/419012\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/419013"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=419012"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=419012"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=419012"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}