Comments Thread For: Teofimo Lopez Rejects Idea of Taylor Fight in UK: That Fight Would Be Somewhere Over Here

[VashDBasher]

“Oh no, not at all. I won’t do it. I won’t take the fight to the U.K.,” Lopez insisted during a recent media conference call to otherwise discuss his June 19 title defense versus Australia’s George Kambosos Jr. (19-0, 10KOs). “It’s not because I don’t believe I can’t beat him in the UK. It’s just the fact that I can see how much animosity that folks are carrying that I’m not undisputed at 135. “I can just see the amount of favoritism over there. That fight would be somewhere over here.”

Not a good look son! First you say you want the fight, and everybody is scared, etc., then you say you won't fight the Undisputed Jr. Welterweight of the World in his home? You want him to put up his belts, and he has to travel to you?

Couldn’t have worded it any better. You spoke for the majority of us.

[Gandhi]

After seeing how Prograis was robbed (the fight was at worst a draw), he’d be ****** to fight Taylor in the UK.

That would be another Dirrell vs Cobra.

[Marvlus Marv]

If i was Taylor I'd never fight in America ever again.

If Teofimo wants the belts, he would have to put on a kilt and travel to Scotland.

Not like it would be some shtitty venue either. A backdrop of Edinburgh Castle would be spectacular. Dunno what his problem is with getting on a plane. Snakes?

[Oldskoolg]

You know what this tells me? That teofimo monitors comments on various social media and sees the comments of fans out of the U.K. personally I don’t blame him, he’s the money fighter. He’s the man who beat THE MAN. He calls the shots. I light add that the U.K. is not the in boxing. That’s been a lie told by the sweet carolines. There is a reason young Edward wanted to take over American boxing and a reason he is in bed with princes of the royal house of Saud

[Bronx2245]

Couldn’t have worded it any better. You spoke for the majority of us.

If Teofimo had at least one title @ 140, I would have a different opinion. In that case I would ask "where do we get the most money?" However, when the guy has beaten Postol, Baranchyk, Prograis, and Ramirez, you gotta go on the road! It's all irrelevant, Arum wants Teofimo to fight the Haney vs. Linares winner! Teo can be mad and pout, but Bob pulls the strings!

[GhostofDempsey]

Taylor will laugh at him. If Teo thinks he is getting a shot at his titles he either gets on a plane or spends the rest of his career cherry picking the scraps. We all knew a taste of success would go to his head. He's in for a crushing fall after he suffers his first loss.

[JakeTheBoxer]

Lopez guy couldn`t drop Lomachenko at 135, beat him in a close fight and now he thinks everybody is scared of him, lol.

Taylor would stop Lomachenko in brutal fashion.

[buddyr]

Lol. That’s not the reason he won’t fight in the U.K. He saw the Taylor- Ramirez scorecards and realised how much favouritism their was in the USA and how that could benefit him in any close fight. I love teo but he sounds like a hoe on this one.

what was the favortism? taylor won, but he didn't win 9 or 10 rounds as you guys claim. Stop this bs please. The judging was fair. He got the 2 knockdowns, he won. A lot of rounds he was clinching trying not to engage as Ramirez was working. Some of you guys have never watched a fight without cheering for one of the competitors. It clouds your judgement

[Alf Stewart]

Good fighter but a total gobshyte.

Teo don’t want that Scottish smoke...

[Monty Fisto]

what was the favortism? taylor won, but he didn't win 9 or 10 rounds as you guys claim. Stop this bs please. The judging was fair. He got the 2 knockdowns, he won. A lot of rounds he was clinching trying not to engage as Ramirez was working. Some of you guys have never watched a fight without cheering for one of the competitors. It clouds your judgement

The favouritism is that he controlled the fight but was not scored as if this was the case. The more effective agression came from Taylor. As you can see backed up in the stats with superior power punches landed in the majority of rounds. The better ring generalship came from Taylor. When he wanted to dance away, he danced away. When he wanted Ramirez tied up, he was tied up. Ramirez was a sucker for the left over the top many, many times in the fight.

No one sensible is arguing Taylor won 10 rounds. The reality is that outside of the knockdown rounds, Taylor probably edged it by a round. Even if you think it was a bunch of rounds with nothing between the two of them outside of the two knockdown rounds, you would have 7 rounds to Taylor for a score of 115 and 5 rounds to Ramirez for a score of 111. You don't have it 114-112.