Teofimo Lopez retires in cryptic tweet...??

[Southpawology]

dude is fragile mentally. one tough fight and wants to pack it in. The sign of a great fighter is they seek out the tough fights!

[Ogecca MaMa]

"my son is better than Floyd Mayweather, levels above. ya'll see it"

[Lomasexual]

He's young, and doesn't seem to be emotionally mature.

The great thing about being young is the possibility to grow. I think he needs some better people around him, giving him more stable advice. I think it will be a bit of work to make sure his head stays screwed on right.

Hopefully he can push through and become better for the experience.

[_Rexy_]

“Some days I run this division, and some days I have trouble getting out of bed” - Teofimo Lopez

[BoloShot]

ESPN post commentary grilled him. Both Ward, Bradley and the other guy said he can’t go in there like that against Commey and something about being exposed. network team players saying this about him probably hit his pride hard. Could be he got bad news from Arum about any new fights here forward...

He's the mandatory to Commey and on the same network as him. Commey has said he wants it, Teo hasn't ever seemed too keen on Richard. If you know how Teo is in sparring, he regularly gets chinned with light gloves on against inexperienced fighters. I think he may be afraid of what could happen and doesn't fancy himself so much anymore but I've been hearing that fight will be sorted for October. Even if he gets past Commey there waits Loma...

[BoloShot]

when the going gets tough in a fight he is gonna go into survival mode. I can see loma making him quit

I personally thinks he stops commey

that is a good style match-up for him imo

both can punch but lopez has some ridiculous power it seems and he will be there for lopez.

Lopez has ridiculous power despite not testing it against any game opponent except for one who was unfazed by it... okay. Commey KOs almost anybody in the division, Lopez is a hype job.

[_Rexy_]

He's the mandatory to Commey and on the same network as him. Commey has said he wants it, Teo hasn't ever seemed too keen on Richard. If you know how Teo is in sparring, he regularly gets chinned with light gloves on against inexperienced fighters. I think he may be afraid of what could happen and doesn't fancy himself so much anymore but I've been hearing that fight will be sorted for October. Even if he gets past Commey there waits Loma...

Lopez really talked himself into a corner here. Commey wants him, Loma wants him...and if he ducks those two, isn’t Haney on the other side of this little “tournament” they’ve got going at 135?

[BoloShot]

It's possible that seeing Maxim Dadashev's fight from Friday, Lopez doesn't want to fight anymore. This fighting chit is dangerous.

Perhaps but it'd be rude if he were referring to him cryptically for attention while in critical condition. He's certainly not below that, now that Maxim is dead he must really question the game he's in.

[BoloShot]

Lopez really talked himself into a corner here. Commey wants him, Loma wants him...and if he ducks those two, isn’t Haney on the other side of this little “tournament” they’ve got going at 135?

Too late, Haney-Abdullaev is for the WBC mandatory now. Teo decided not to do the tournament (Javier Fortuna would've been his first opponent) and take the Nakatani fight to become IBF mandatory. He really has left himself with very little leeway except to fight Commey and Loma, move up or retire.

[_Rexy_]

Too late, Haney-Abdullaev is for the WBC mandatory now. Teo decided not to do the tournament (Javier Fortuna would've been his first opponent) and take the Nakatani fight to become IBF mandatory. He really has left himself with very little leeway except to fight Commey and Loma, move up or retire.

So ultimately he ducked Haney to get KTFO by Commey.

he should just move up and face nobodies at 140 like he’s done at 135