Comments Thread For: Teofimo Lopez Wants 'Nine-Figure' Contract to Continue Fighting, Will Consider Retirement

[steeve steel]

So Taylor did hurt him more than we thought...

[GhostofDempsey]

He has a history of mental illness, this is just delusional.

[SUBZER0ED]

That's a new one, "Pay me a boat load of cash, or I'm retiring!". "The Takeover" has lost his damn mind.

[turnedup]

He beat a guy off a 16 month layoff and suddenly is feeling himself again. Fair play to him but at times his defense was pure shhhh and lucky for him his opponent couldn’t hurt him. This dude is a bad headline waiting to happen tho.

[rickJen]

The Bobfather needs to let the Lopezes go. Let them sign with PBC/Haymon.
Haney is also a free agent and should sign with PBC as well.
"Wrong side of the street" excuses need to be eliminated.

[Smash]

josh taylor got beaten by catterall, he shouldnt even have that title, he made excuses & has been out of the ring for nearly a year and a half, layoffs are nearly always bad, teo needs to back this good performance with another good win and not get carried away with himself, he got waxed after his last good performance so hes got noone to blame but himself for where he is, which is not bad actually, hes a good named dance partner now, he can make 3 mil plus per fight if he plays his cards smart i think possibly

[A_State501]

I understand his rationale. He's asking for something unreasonable with the hope of negotiating to something more reasonable than he is receiving. He DESERVES to be paid more than Loma and Taylor from an American promotional company because he beat them both and is a bigger draw for American and Latino fans. Receiving 5 or 8 million for a fight should not be out of the range for a fighter that has beaten arguably the top lineal champion in 2 different divisions.

I agree he definitely deserves to be paid more. His ko of Commey was a beauty. I think people might want to go look at who he's fought he has a good resume. Josh Taylor looked good to me I do think he was a little too juiced up, he looked like he had went six rounds before the fight started. Teo just looked better.

People have to kill the excuses when a fighter you don't like wins. There can't always be an excuse. Loma starts late it has cost him. Teo was better that night as was Haney. No one armed bs, no conspiracy bs. There was no outrage over the Ortiz scorecards nobody demanded a review of the judges. Rolly terrible, Ortiz vs Loma terrible, Catteral vs Taylor robbery, Pretty Boy vs Castillo very bad. Nothing is perfect.

[crimsonfalcon07]

Remember this is the same guy that thought he could put 135 lb belts on the line in a 135+lb catchweight. He spews all kinds of nonsense all the time, much like a certain WBC heavyweight champion. That was a virtuoso performance though. Taylor may have been feeling flat, but he got absolutely dominated by Teo. When you are feeling it enough to dance in the pocket against the guy that achieved undisputed in the division, that's not a close fight. Taylor better forget about taking on the winner OR loser of Spence v Crawford. Both of them will take his head clean off. And he's not gonna fare much better against Ortiz, Stanionis, or Ennis. Probably time to hang it up.

Catterall looked sharp in his last outing. I'd like to see Teo defend against him, then take on Prograis. Teo isn't getting a good contract from Arum because of his antics out of the ring. If he retires now, he just squanders the momentum he earned with this win.

[crimsonfalcon07]

The Bobfather needs to let the Lopezes go. Let them sign with PBC/Haymon.
Haney is also a free agent and should sign with PBC as well.
"Wrong side of the street" excuses need to be eliminated.

PBC INVENTED the wrong side of the street excuses...

[Smash]

how do people get onboard with a guy who says noone wrote to him when he was dying in hospital, he wants to kill someone & hes the greatest and doing stuff noone has done before & now hes retiring if people dont pay him a fortune for 1 good performance out of 3 fights, hes got that crazy gene from pops bigtime