Comments Thread For: Juanma Lopez Vows Not To Fight Again, Will Retire For Good

[CubanGuyNYC]

Better late than never. Not hard to do, but he’s smarter than Gamboa, who’s still hanging on to the ghost of his career.

Best of luck, JuanMa.

[Black Jesus]

Had no idea he was still fighting

[aaronbnb]

If you haven't seen Juanma's fight with Mtagwa, that is a great one. Juanma at the peak of his abilities, but the fight showed the incredible strengths and weaknesses in him. Neither man was ever the same after that one. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cuh8sluREz4

[Oregonian]

Had no idea Juanma was still fighting. His career should have been over a long time ago. Juanma vs Gamboa was another great fight killed by Arum’s fan betraying marination strategy. Everyone wanted to see that fight when it actually mattered.

Orlando Salido was the disruptor as always. Salido’s second wind Career is just plain underrated. If he hadn’t had such a tough start, imagine how the boxing gods would rate him today. He was 50/50 or better with the very top fighters in their prime. Names include Juanma, Juan Manuel Marquez, Mikey Garcia, Vasily Lomachenko, Roman Martinez, Francisco Vargas, Robert Guerrero and Yuriorkis Gamboa.

Salido was an absolute beast. Just can’t understand why Top Rank would put him in with Tomato Cans the way he was showing up against top fighters? Such a strange career.

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Truer words have never been spoken.

[MeanestNiceGuy]

Should've retired around 2013 after Mikey smoked him on HBO that summer. His legs were gone from jump and he just didn't seem to be "into it". I'm glad he's walking away, especially after being KO'd by Vargas on the Canelo/Lara undercard back in 2014.

He's taken a lot of punishment in his career and I hope he has an even better life outside of boxing...he's give us too much of himself to not enjoy life after boxing.

[KillaMane26]

He should have stopped after that second Salido beating tbh

[theface07]

Hopefully Chavez " BUM " Jr follows Juanma's example...

I agree with you about Jr retiring but Juanma was a true fighter. Jr only became a boxer because of who his father is and never came cloe to reaching his potential because he was spoiled and lazy.

[Articulateboxin]

Sadly, I think he will be most famously remembered for never being able to fight Gamboa. That fight for me, shall always be the antithesis to the "let it marinate" mentality.

Good ole Bob Arum.

Regardless, all the best to Juanma!!

[juanpablo]

He was a warrior. Thanks for all the fights. Enjoy your family

[Dasmius Shinobi]

Juanma Lopez, respect.

Juanma Lopez, I hope you don't lie again, I mean it. I am going to get your word and believe you are going to retire Champ. Thank you for all your entertaining fights, I never going to forgive those nights of excitement and euphoria I was at those moments. Congratulation Champ, you earned your retirement and doing good in the boxing community, I thank you for this.