{"id":749666,"date":"2026-08-25T22:10:08","date_gmt":"2026-08-25T22:10:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/749666\/"},"modified":"2026-08-25T22:10:08","modified_gmt":"2026-08-25T22:10:08","slug":"shakur-stevenson-says-one-former-lightweight-champion-is-the-most-underrated-boxer-of-all-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/749666\/","title":{"rendered":"Shakur Stevenson says one former lightweight champion is ‘the most underrated boxer of all time’"},"content":{"rendered":"

Shakur Stevenson<\/a> has offered a somewhat surprising selection for the most underrated fighter of all time.<\/p>\n

Stevenson has claimed world honours at featherweight, super-featherweight, lightweight and now super-lightweight, becoming boxing\u2019s third-youngest four-division world champion.<\/p>\n

Stevenson is coming off perhaps the best win of his career, having dominated and outclassed Teofimo<\/a> Lopez to capture the WBO and Ring super lightweight titles. Since then, he has signed a promotional deal with Zuffa Boxing and has been strongly linked with a fight against Devin Haney<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Speaking on the \u2018Ball in the Family\u2019 podcast<\/a>, Stevenson was asked to name the most underrated boxer of all time. His choice was Vasiliy Lomachenko, a fighter who lost to both Lopez and Haney.<\/p>\n

\u201cProbably Lomachenko [is the most underrated boxer of all time].<\/p>\n

\u201cI think that Lomachenko is underrated because I feel like he fought outside of his weight-class. He fought at 135, where he is really like a 126lber but people discredit him because he lost the big fights against a lot of bigger fighters, so he didn\u2019t really get a chance to fight at his weight-class.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe should be fighting against guys like [Naoya] Inoue, not Teofimo [Lopez] and Devin [Haney] and s**t, so he is underrated to me.\u201d<\/p>\n

Lomachenko is one of the greatest amateur boxers in history, putting together a 396-1 record which led to him entering the paid ranks and becoming a three-division world champion, before the aforementioned losses to Lopez and Haney.<\/p>\n

Both Lopez and Haney have since gone on to become welterweight world champions, whilst Lomachenko is planning to announce his comeback imminently, and is reportedly targeting a super-featherweight return against Charly Suarez and then a potential challenge against Emanuel Navarrete<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Shakur Stevenson has offered a somewhat surprising selection for the most underrated fighter of all time. Stevenson has…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":749667,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[2560,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-749666","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\/749666","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=749666"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/749666\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/749667"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=749666"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=749666"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=749666"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}