{"id":764188,"date":"2026-09-08T18:04:09","date_gmt":"2026-09-08T18:04:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/764188\/"},"modified":"2026-09-08T18:04:09","modified_gmt":"2026-09-08T18:04:09","slug":"american-hall-of-famer-says-shakur-stevenson-is-boring-and-tells-him-to-fight-the-real-fights","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/764188\/","title":{"rendered":"American Hall of Famer says Shakur Stevenson is ‘boring’ and tells him to ‘fight the real fights’"},"content":{"rendered":"

Shakur Stevenson<\/a> has been labelled as \u201cboring\u201d by a Hall of Fame inductee, who struggles to see why the slick southpaw is hailed as an elite technician.<\/p>\n

Indeed, the 29-year-old is widely considered to be one of the finest pure boxers of this generation, as evidenced by his dominant victory over Teofimo Lopez<\/a> in January.<\/p>\n

Even before becoming a four-division world champion, Stevenson had showcased his skills with scintillating performances against the likes of William Zepeda and Oscar Valdez.<\/p>\n

The American has not quite done enough to impress three-division world champion James Toney, though, as the pound-for-pound legend believes old-school fighters, such as himself, were far more successful at implementing the shoulder roll.<\/p>\n

This style of defensive ingenuity saw Toney become a three-division world champion, defeating the likes of Michael Nunn and Mike McCallum before losing a unanimous decision to Roy Jones Jr<\/a> in 1994.<\/p>\n

In terms of technical geniuses, \u2018Lights Out\u2019 also regards Sugar Ray Robinson<\/a> as perhaps the greatest of all time, with his credentials far outshining those of Stevenson.<\/p>\n

Expressing his opinion while speaking with Fight Hub TV<\/a>, Toney simply suggested that Stevenson must prove himself to a greater extent than he already has.<\/p>\n

\u201cI like Shakur, but he\u2019s boring. [He has] good boxing skills, [but] I don\u2019t know if he can apply the shoulder roll the way James Toney and [other] old-school [fighters did].\u201c<\/p>\n

\u201cSugar Robinson was a technician \u2013 he boxed and stopped people. That\u2019s how you become a technician. You don\u2019t become a technician by running around the ring and all that. But, as I said, he\u2019s a good fighter but he\u2019s got to prove himself, stop running your mouth and fight the real fights.\u201d<\/p>\n

While perhaps not meeting Toney\u2019s lofty standards, it is difficult to place Stevenson anywhere outside of the current pound-for-pound top five, especially given that he has never come close to losing a professional contest.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Shakur Stevenson has been labelled as \u201cboring\u201d by a Hall of Fame inductee, who struggles to see why…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":764189,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[2560,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-764188","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\/764188","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=764188"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/764188\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/764189"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=764188"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=764188"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=764188"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}