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World Boxing Council President Mauricio Sulaiman was very impressed with Saturday's big win by Teofimo Lopez. Lopez unified the WBC Franchise, WBA, WBO, IBF lightweight titles with a twelve round unanimous decision over heavily favored Vasiliy Lomachenko at the MGM Grand's Conference Center in Las Vegas.
Vasiliy Lomachenko's second career loss Saturday night to the hands of Teofimo Lopez has caused both emotional and physical pain. Lomachenko underwent right shoulder surgery Monday to repair his labrum less than 48 hours after dropping a unanimous decision and his WBO, WBA and WBC Franchise titles to Lopez in Las Vegas, a source informed of the surgery told BoxingScene.com on Tuesday.
Derek Chisora was an interested observer in last Saturday's lightweight unification between Teofimo Lopez and Vasiliy Lomchenko, which took place at the MGM Grand's Conference Center in Las Vegas.
More viewers watched ESPN’s Teofimo Lopez-Vasiliy Lomachenko fight on Saturday night than any boxing match on American television in more than three years. According to viewership figures released Tuesday by Nielsen Media Research, the Lopez-Lomachenko main event was watched by an average audience of 2,729,000. Viewership peaked at 2,898,000 toward the end of their 12-round main event, which Lopez won by unanimous decision.
LAS VEGAS – Teofimo Lopez is confident he has earned undisputed status in the lightweight division by beating Vasiliy Lomachenko convincingly Saturday night. Lopez mockingly refers to Devin Haney as an “email champion” because Haney won the WBC’s interim championship and was elevated to world champion without beating anyone other than Zaur Abdullaev for a vacant title. If Lopez opts to remain at the lightweight limit, though, he’d gladly face Haney next to settle their championship dispute in the ring.
Former two division world champion Timothy Bradley believes Teofimo Lopez has nothing left to accomplish at the lightweight limit of 135-pounds. He would like to see Lopez move up in weight to challenge the winner of the 2021 junior welterweight unification between Jose Ramirez and Josh Taylor, who will battle for the WBO, IBF, WBA, WBC titles.
By Lyle Fitzsimmons - Sometimes you write a column and you just know it’s a good one. It’s a lot like when a basketball shot “feels good off the hands.” It was exactly that way for me last week. Upon polishing off 1,000 words on how Vasily Lomachenko would swat away Teofimo Lopez’s challenge like an upstart mosquito, I turned to my wife and kiddingly said “make room...
Former two division world champion Timothy Bradley was always believer in Teofimo Lopez. He picked Lopez to pull off the upset last Saturday night at the MGM Grand's Conference Center in Las Vegas. And pull off the upset he did. Lopez won a twelve round unanimous decision over Vasiliy Lomachenko to unify the WBC Franchise, WBO, IBF, WBA lightweight titles.
LAS VEGAS – Teofimo Lopez Sr. wasn’t worried before the official scores were read Saturday night that his son wouldn’t get credit for the win he had earned versus Vasiliy Lomachenko. In fact, he thought judge Julie Lederman was spot on with how she scored their 12-round, 135-pound title unification fight at MGM Grand Conference Center. Lederman credited Lopez with winning 11 of the 12 rounds and scored their fight 119-109 for him.
Veteran trainer Jorge Rubio of Cuba was not surprised by the victory achieved by Teofimo Lopez on Saturday night. At the MGM Grand's Conference Center in Las Vegas, Lopez pulled off a twelve round unanimous decision over big favorite Vasiliy Lomachenko to unify the WBO, IBF, WBC Franchise, IBF lightweight titles.