, boxing will open 2026 with a bang. Two of the sport’s most gifted, polarizing, and pound-for-pound elite fighters will collide on January 31 when Teofimo Lopez and Shakur Stevenson meet in the main event of The Ring 6 at Madison Square Garden in New York, live exclusively on DAZN. It’s a matchup defined by razor-thin margins, high-level skill, coast-to-coast bragging rights, and two fighters entering the peak of their primes. The stakes couldn’t be higher: supremacy at 140 pounds and the continuation or disruption of each man’s legacy.
Stevenson (24-0, 11 KOs), the reigning WBC lightweight champion and The Ring’s No.