Comments Thread For: Tim Bradley On Teofimo Lopez: "He's Dog Food For The Top 140s"

[GFunk23]

Teo hasn't looked good at 140. He's a small jnr welterweight and he seems mentally shaken. If this fight was 2 years ago at 140, I think Taylor kos Lopez but Taylor has been injured and inactive hence why I expect a competitive scrap

[paulf]

Moving beyond 135 is one of those very hard speed bumps. We remember the guys who did and went on to be great at 140 and 147 - but for everyone one of those guys, there's a million that look like **** once they move up.

Case in point: Brandon Rios looked like an unstoppable monster at 135... and proceed to look like some bum fighting at the bottom of an ESPN card at 140-147.

Lopez has looked like nothing special since moving up. Bradley is correct in his take: the top guys are foaming at the mouth to take the fight for a reason.

[Madison Boxing]

i see an upset on the cards, i'm tipping lopez

[Liondw]

Clearly no love lost between Teofimo and Tim.

[_original_]

Bradley should not be commentating on this fight due to his personal beef with Teo. Hope they replace him for this fight. He’s already unbearable and creates ridiculous narratives, imagine commentating on a fighter he clearly dislikes?

[-Kev-]

Wait wait, hold on, let me just get this straight here because now we are heading into bizarro world territory.

You’re saying that Taylor-Catteral was “very close and debatable” but Loma-Haney wasn’t?

How could you possibly hold that opinion?

As far as I can remember, not a single press row media scored Taylor-Catteral for Taylor or a draw, unlike Loma-Haney where several either scored it a draw of for Haney. He was totally dominated on punch stats, and Catteral won 6 clear rounds + a KD (1,3,4,5,6,8) meaning that even if you give Taylor every single swing round, it’s still mathematically impossible to score the fight for Taylor.

To the point the judges were investigated and one of them (Ian John Lewis) demoted.

And in your mind, you’re telling me that Loma-Haney has more qualifications for a being a robbery than that?

I really don’t care about Taylor-Catterall. I don’t know in what other language I can say that. I didn’t even score that fight, I literally just watched it. Yes, it was a debatable decision in that Taylor seemed to have lost. I had Taylor losing.

But I don’t care about that fight, and I can’t sit here and argue back and forth with you about it, pretending I care for the sake of arguing.

[IronDanHamza]

I really don’t care about Taylor-Catterall. I don’t know in what other language I can say that. I didn’t even score that fight, I literally just watched it. Yes, it was a debatable decision in that Taylor seemed to have lost. I had Taylor losing.

But I don’t care about that fight, and I can’t sit here and argue back and forth with you about it, pretending I care for the sake of arguing.

Ok but it wasn't debatable because Catteral clearly won 6 rounds + a KD so it quite literally wasn't debatable.

Unlike Loma-Haney which was very debatable since there was about 3-4 clear rounds in total for both fighters.

So I just find it quite astonishing that you'd label the one was actually a robbery from every metric you can look at it from as close and debatable and the one was that clearly debatable from every metric you look at it from as a robbery.

[BlackRobb]

I don’t care, good for Catterall

Fact is Taylor wasn’t going around acting weak as fck on camera. And post fight he was still acting confident.

Boxing is all mental. If you don’t have it mentally, nothing else matters, not even physical ability.

Why would Taylor act tough when Catterall OWNED him for 12 rounds???

[IronDanHamza]

Why would Taylor act tough when Catterall OWNED him for 12 rounds???

Bare in mind, Lomachenko literally cried on camera back stage after his loss. A loss in which he has nobody to blame it on but himself.

Incredible lack of consistency all round on this topic, really.

[JakeTheBoxer]

Taylor will win, because he is experienced at that weight. he was in tough fights with Prograis, Ramirez, Catterall. I don`t see Lopez winning this one.