By: Sean Crose
Former light-weight champion turned junior welterweight contender Teofimo Lopez had a couple of selection phrases to say to Punch Drunk Boxing. “I want to kill Josh Taylor,” he claimed. Taylor shall be defending his WBO junior welterweight crown when he squares off towards Lopez subsequent month at Madison Square Garden in New York. It’s an intriguing battle to make certain, one nicely value trying ahead to. Although it’s uncertain Lopez goals to kill anybody, his remark has drawn consideration – which can be what the onerous hitting New Yorker meant your entire time.
The 18-1 Lopez, by no means one to shirk away from consideration, clearly isn’t taken with coming throughout as temperate or gentle mannered within the lead as much as his June tenth showdown with 18-0 Englishman Taylor. “This is what we sign up for, ” he continued. “You gonna probably lose your life. What does that mean? If I’m gonna die in that ring, at least I died for some dignity and integrity. I went out there like a warrior, like the champ that we are. That’s what I know, that’s what I signed up for. Boxing today is the gladiator days back then. A lot of people don’t know that, because they don’t know boxing.”
Lopez stunned lots of people when he lifted the vast majority of light-weight titles from across the waist of Vasyl Lomachenko again in 2020. Since that point, nonetheless, the person hasn’t appeared notably spectacular within the ring. He misplaced his belt George Kambosos in his first protection and has gone on from there to greatest the likes of Pedro Campa and Sandor Martin, the person who retired Mikey Garcia. Although nobody would name Campa or Martin slouches, there’s little doubt Lopez’ profession as quieted down a bit because the man’s large win over Lomachenko shut to a few years in the past. Until, that’s, he said he wished to kill Taylor.
