Teofimo Lopez adds up Shakur Stevenson’s boxing ability after one-sided loss
After sharing the ring with Shakur Stevenson, Teofimo Lopez He believes he is aware of defeat the unbeaten Newark southpaw and has shared that information to future opponents of the newly topped super-lightweight world champion.
Stevenson grew to become the third-youngest four-division world champion in boxing historical past when he dethroned Teofimo Lopez and captured the WBO super-lightweight strap with some of the dominant performances of the 12 months to date.
Yet, in an interview with Boxing HighsLopez defined that he doesn’t suppose his latest opponent utterly believes in himself and denied that he may have been stopped if Stevenson determined to push the tempo down the stretch.
“I think that Shakur is a great candidate and a great fighter, yes. Do I think that he believes in himself wholly? No.
“Just hitting me with jabs alone and left-hooks, the place I used to be catching him within the majority of the struggle, that does not win you fights. I’m form of flattered that Andre Ward and Terence ‘Bud’ Crawford thought that Shakur may end me. Nah, no person can cease me.”
Lopez then went on to disclose that he feels as if the way in which to beat the well-schooled Stevenson is by ‘combating soiled’.
“It is not Shakur’s so-called fault, but in the fight he was stepping on my foot and elbowing me in-between those moments when we were clinching, but that is just what it was.
“He knows how to do one thing and one thing for sure – that is to create enough space to be where he needs to be at defensively. That, I can give him, he is very defensively sound.
“You have just got to make it a dirty fight, for anybody that wants to face him, you have just got to make it real dirty.”
