{"id":576760,"date":"2026-05-10T17:55:06","date_gmt":"2026-05-10T17:55:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/576760\/"},"modified":"2026-05-10T17:55:06","modified_gmt":"2026-05-10T17:55:06","slug":"shakur-stevenson-predicts-errol-spence-comeback-against-tim-tszyu-hell-get-destroyed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/576760\/","title":{"rendered":"Shakur Stevenson predicts Errol Spence comeback against Tim Tszyu: “He’ll get destroyed”"},"content":{"rendered":"

Shakur Stevenson<\/a> has offered his thoughts on Errol Spence Jr<\/a> vs Tim Tszyu<\/a>, believing that one fighter will get \u201cdestroyed\u201d when they collide on July 25.<\/p>\n

The pair have reportedly agreed to meet in Australia at a catchweight of 158lbs<\/a>, despite Tszyu\u2019s best efforts to face the former unified welterweight champion at 154lbs.<\/p>\n

It was at super-welterweight where the Australian claimed his world title, against Brian Mendoza, before being relieved of the WBO belt by Sebastian Fundora.<\/p>\n

Their first encounter resulted in a split decision in 2024, before Tszyu suffered a punishing seventh-round stoppage defeat<\/a> to \u2018The Towering Inferno\u2019 last July.<\/p>\n

This came just two fights after an even more devastating night against Bakhram Murtazaliev, whose third-round finish has caused many to question Tszyu\u2019s world-level credentials.<\/p>\n

Similar doubts have been raised about the current capabilities of Spence, too, as the 36-year-old has not fought since his ninth-round stoppage defeat to Terence Crawford in 2023.<\/p>\n

It will have been three years of inactivity, then, by the time he returns to action against Tszyu, this time competing at just 2lbs below the middleweight limit.<\/p>\n

Prior to the Crawford loss, Spence was widely considered to be the leading champion at 147lbs, even after being involved in a life-threatening car accident in 2019.<\/p>\n

It is therefore the experience of Spence which, in an interview with The Agnew Podcast<\/a>, has inspired Stevenson to predict a rather undesirable outcome for Tszyu.<\/p>\n

\u201cI got Errol. I don\u2019t think Tim Tszyu can do anything with him. I don\u2019t see Tim Tszyu being the [only other] guy to beat Errol.<\/p>\n

\u201cI feel like that experience [Spence] has doesn\u2019t go nowhere. For me, personally, I feel like an in-the-box fighter like Tim Tszyu is going to get destroyed [fighting] like that [against Spence].\u201d<\/p>\n

Before losing to Crawford, Spence had claimed victories over Danny Garcia and Yordenis Ugas, which both followed his near career-ending car crash.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Shakur Stevenson has offered his thoughts on Errol Spence Jr vs Tim Tszyu, believing that one fighter will…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":576761,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[2560,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-576760","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\/576760","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=576760"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/576760\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/576761"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=576760"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=576760"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=576760"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}