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Also agree. I just feel like Haney, Tank and Garcia have all been deliberately leaving Loma out of the conversation for a while now and they now also appear to be doing the same thing with Lopez. Who’s now calling him out? No one.
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Man, the LW division is white hot right now. Maybe the best of them all. I think we'll see at least one big face-off this year. What I'd give for a WBSS at 135
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Good now tell Bob you don't want Kambosos, and that you want to settle this "undisputed" with Devon Haney!
Teofimo Lopez Sr Says Fight With Tank And Haney Don’t Make Sense
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December 22, 2020 l 73 Comments l by Will Arons
Teofimo Sr Says Tank Fight Not Happening
“There’s no fight with Gervonta Davis,” said Teofmo Sr to Fighthype about Vasily Lomachenko. “You already heard Floyd Mayweather say, ‘Gervonta Davis needs another tune-up fight before he fights my son.
My son isn’t going to stay in the 135-pound weight division. Maybe one, maybe two, we don’t know,” said Teofimo Sr when asked how many fights does Lopez have left at lightweight. ”
“It depends. If the money is right, we’ll stay, but I’m not going to damage my son’s career by leaving him in a weight division that he can’t make anymore.
“My son is not performing at 100% at 135 because he has to lose all that weight. So, he’s really fighting weak in that fight.
“I think he’ll be more powerful at 140, and that’s what we’re trying to go to. Let’s see what happens. We got a good fight with George Kambosos Jr up in Australia. It’ll be 65,000 people. I’m all in for it.
It would be interesting to see what Mayweather has to say about his fighter Tank Davis preferring to take a tune-up rather than face Teofimo.
What’s weird is the different excuses Teofimo Sr makes for why his son can’t fight Tank.
He says that Tank needs a tune-up fight as the reason why Teofimo can’t fight him. But then Teofimo Sr says Tank needs to build-up before he’ll let his son fight him.
Haney And Tank Need To Build Their Resumes
“A fight with Devin Haney, a fight with Gervonta Davis, or any of those guys don’t make no sense right now,” said Teofimo Sr. “These guys need to make up their resumes, they need to start fighting bigger guys.
“Leo Santa Cruz isn’t a top dude. My son was even telling Tank, ‘What are you fighting this dude for? It’s a disgrace.’
“We’re not going to go back down and fight a guy at 130 pounds or 126. It doesn’t make no sense. We’re not beating nobody if we’re going down.
“We’re fighting guys in our weight division, and then we’re going forward with that. We’re not going backward. We’re taking all the big fights.
Given that Teofimo Jr is supposedly fighting only one or two more times at 135 before he moves up to 140, it sounds like he’s never going to fight Haney or Tank. We already know that Teofimo Jr will never fight Lomachenko again because he already said, “what for?”
Teofimo Jr thinks he’ll beat Lomacgenko in the same way in the rematch, but unfortunately, the fans don’t agree with him.
They think Teofimo is afraid of facing Lomachenko again and that he’s cherry-picking by looking to face Kambosos Jr...
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Lopez is getting knockout by Haney...Comment
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Bottom line, 140 is dry money-wise for Lopez and the TR. Lopez likely would prefer to make the biggest money fight at 135 and if he lost (not saying he would), could easily say it was due to being drained and move up. It’s the best strategy for now.
He can either stick with TR and maybe get a good purse versus Ramirez in NY or CA or chase some Hearn bucks and fight Taylor in the UK.Comment
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I like Lopez.
After the Loma win he said if you want to be money, first you've got to be pretty boy.
Tank & Garcia think they're money already & Email well enough said.
The other's should have to fight each other or Loma for the chance at undesputed while Lopez stays in shape with a mando if none of them fight him next.
If they're was a wbss at 135 right now Lopez & probably Loma, maybe email would be the only ones man enough to enter. You know chin high & the midget think they're to big.Last edited by Bob; 01-06-2021, 07:59 AM.Comment
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All these young punks better fight eachother .... Garcia, Stank, Haney, Lopez...Comment
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135 just got so much more interesting - I got (could be completely wrong):
Teo
Loma (although i can see Loma winning rematch if its within a year)
Garcia (although i can see Garcia beating everyone after one year)
Tank
Haney
Still want to see Verdejo get better but I cannot see Verdejo touching Garcia from 2022 onwards. He will be a star, im sold.Comment
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The kingpin has spoken!!!Comment
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