Comments Thread For: BoxingScene.com's Television Pick of The Week - October 16

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Pick It: TBRB #1 Vasyl Lomachenko vs. #2 Teofimo Lopez (Saturday, ESPN+, 7:30 PM EST) - Paraphrasing Bob Arum, the promoter once described the problem of Roy Jones as not being without opponents. It was instead no one was building opponents for him. No one can say this Saturday hasn't been expertly built towards. The IBF lightweight titlist, Lopez (15-0, 12 KO), has been built as a showdown for WBA/WBO titlist Vasyl Lomachenko (14-1, 10 KO) since he was a prospect.
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[richardt]

Pretty bad when they have to justify a fighter's record by saying he has "only been stopped once", as if that makes it okay: Matt Doherty (8-7-1, 4 KO) is damn near a .500 fighter.