Prime Rank chairman Bob Arum not too long ago spoke to Dan Rafael for a particular Combat Freaks Unite/Large Combat Weekend podcast, the place he mentioned a number of subjects together with Jared Anderson and Naoya Inoue and others. Arum additionally spoke about a contract dispute with the WBO tremendous light-weight world champion Teofimo Lopez.
Bob Arum Addresses Teofimo Lopez Contract Dispute
Arum Talks Truthfully About Lopez Scenario
Lopez has had quite a few contract disputes with Prime Rank since turning skilled with the promotional giants in 2016. Earlier in October, the previous unified light-weight champion despatched a letter to Prime Rank claiming that his contract was invalid, and as such he must be a free agent.
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Arum went on to make clear the state of affairs between Prime Rank and Teofimo, and started by saying: “Teofimo typically acts like he has a screw free.”
He continued: “, I like the child, and I get together with him personally, however I can’t determine him out and he makes no logical sense. I imply, he signed the extension with us first with a Pedraza struggle, which didn’t occur, after which after we did one other struggle for him with Sandor Martin, he signed the identical extension, referring to the truth that the Pedraza struggle didn’t occur.”
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Describing coping with Lopez, Arum stated: “So, it’s there in black and white and I assume he confirmed the lawyer the primary contract, which tied into the Pedraza struggle, and never the second contract (for the Martin struggle), which reaffirmed the extension. Coping with Teofimo is like coping with Alice in Wonderland.”
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Decision
Regardless of the difficulties concerning the contract, Prime Rank chairman Arum seems assured that the dispute with“The Takeover” will likely be resolved: “I don’t wish to disparage anyone as a result of that doesn’t do any good, however finally sanity will take maintain and we’ll be doing a struggle for Teofimo,” Arum stated.
