McGirt Warns Shakur Stevenson: Potshots Won’t Beat Teofimo

Coach Buddy McGirt Argues That Shakur Stevenson Can’t Relly PotShot Style of Fighting When He Goes Up Against Teofimo Lopez In Their Planned Match in Early 2026.

Why Volume Punching Is Essential

Teofimo (22-1, 13 cos) is also a potshot fighter, but he’s a bigger puncher. Hey Also Doesn’t Have Brittle Hands Like The Newark, New Jersey Native Shakur (24-0, 11 Kos). If Their Fight Involves Tactical Potthot, Lopez Will Be Victorious Because Stevenson’s Weaker Shots Won’t Impress The Judges.

McGirt Says That For Shakur to Outpoint WBO Light Welterweight Champion Teofimo, He’s Going to Need to Need To Focus on Punching.

The Fundamental Problem Is That Stevenson has never had a High output As an amateur or a pro. He’s From The Floyd Mayweather Jr. Fighting of the Potthot Mold, and It Could Next to Impossible Shakur to Change His Style at 28 After All These Years of Using That Approach.

“Shakur’s got more punches and control The Fight. He can’t just rely on Potshots and Expect the Round Clearly Against Someone Like Teofimo,” Said Trainer Buddy McGirt Millcity Boxing About Shakur Stevenson Needing to Increase His Punch Output To Teofimo Lopez in 2026.

Can Stevenson Change His DNA?

Throwing One Shot At A Time Is Now in Stevenson’s DNA. If Shakur Attempts To Veer Away from That Style Against The Far More Powerful Teofimo, He Could Get Knocked Out. Would Break Stevenson As a Fighter to Change What’s In His Mental Code.

We saw what happened to shakur when he stood and foucht william in their Fight July 12, 2025, in Queens, New York. Zepeda Worked Him Over on The Ropes, Landing Countless Shots.

What Was Interesting About That Fight, Besides The Strange Scoring in Shakur That Didn’t Match The Actual Contest, Was How How Zepeda Appeared to Drop Him In The Third Round. Not only did the referee fail to rule it a knockdown, but the judges gave shakur the round. Zepeda Had Worked Stevenson Over The Entire Round, Riddling Him with Machine Gun-Type Shots, Only to Have The Round Scored Against Him

William Zepeda Robed Of Knockdown – Ropes Held Shakur Stevenson Up pic.twitter.com/2x58cnbutw

– El Guru (@phymmyguru) September 29, 2025

“IF Shakur Wants to Show He’s Best, He’s Got to Step Up The Volume, Close Those Rounds Strong. He’s got The Skills, But He’s Gotta Let His Hands Go More To Make It Lord, “Said McGirt.

Nation Vegas’ Take: Shakur’s Potshot Habit Will Bury Him

Shakur is physically and mentally incapable stepping up The Volume Without Getting Cleaned By Teofimo And Left In The Dirt. Would be suicide for Stevenson to Use Volume Against Teo. That style is a Dead end for Shakur, and picture’d be picking up the Broken Pieces of Him if he attempted to USE.

If Buddy Were in His Corner, Ordering Him to Charge No Man’s Land to Confort Lopez on Open Ground, He’s Going Apart By The Powerful Brooklyn, New York Native. Stevenson Showed Against Zepeda That He Does The Chin To Take a Hard Hunkshot When Hunk Hunkered Down, Hiding Head Like An Ostrich.

Shakur is Lucky McGirt isn’t the trainer he’d Get Him knocked out Him pushed Him to Go On The Attack, Using Volume Against Lopez. The Only Way Stevenson Can Fight is to Use The Same Running Approach That Hearing 12-Round Unanimous Decision Against Edwin de Los Santos 16, 2023.

Written by Nation Vegas, a Boxing Analyst Covering World Title Fights 2013.