{"id":668103,"date":"2026-07-01T14:48:18","date_gmt":"2026-07-01T14:48:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/668103\/"},"modified":"2026-07-01T14:48:18","modified_gmt":"2026-07-01T14:48:18","slug":"teofimo-lopez-names-the-man-to-end-shakur-stevensons-undefeated-run","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/668103\/","title":{"rendered":"Teofimo Lopez names the man to end Shakur Stevenson&#8217;s undefeated run"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/boxingnewsonline.net\/boxer\/teofimo-lopez\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Teofimo Lopez<\/a> has revealed who he believes is capable of handing <a href=\"https:\/\/boxingnewsonline.net\/boxer\/shakur-stevenson\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Shakur Stevenson<\/a> his first career defeat.<\/p>\n<p>Stevenson has won all 25 of his fights to date, claiming world honours at featherweight, super featherweight, lightweight, and super lightweight since making his debut back in April 2017.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/boxing\/story\/_\/id\/47794526\/stevenson-seizes-lopez-title-become-four-division-champion\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">His last triumph came against Lopez himself<\/a>, earning a one-sided unanimous decision victory at Madison Square Garden in New York back in January to win the WBO title at 140lbs.<\/p>\n<p>While Lopez was unable to get the better of Stevenson, he has now named the man who he feels has what it takes to end that unbeaten record.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tiktok.com\/@dailymailsport\/video\/7657220319240916246?_r=1&amp;_t=ZN-97eX7vTGXjy\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">In a feature with Daily Mail Sport<\/a>, Lopez was discussing several possible match-ups in the welterweight division, where he was asked to predict who would win in a battle between Stevenson and current WBO welterweight champion Devin Haney.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think Devin Haney.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Haney previously reigned as undisputed lightweight champion before then holding the WBC super-lightweight title, and he became a three-division world champion in November when he earned the WBO welterweight strap with a dominant points win over Brian Norman Jr.<\/p>\n<p>Stevenson and Haney have been linked to a fight with one another for several months, but one sticking point appears to be the 144lb catchweight offer that has been bandied about the two camps.<\/p>\n<p>It still remains to be seen whether or not a bout will come to fruition anytime soon, <a href=\"https:\/\/boxingnewsonline.net\/news\/mayweather-recalls-haney-vs-davis-spar\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">with Haney instead reportedly in talks for a showdown against fellow multi-weight world champion Gervonta Davis.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>                                            <script async src=\"\/\/www.tiktok.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Teofimo Lopez has revealed who he believes is capable of handing Shakur Stevenson his first career defeat. Stevenson&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":668104,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[2560,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-668103","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\/668103","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=668103"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/668103\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/668104"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=668103"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=668103"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=668103"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}