Teofimo Lopez makes an look on It Is What It Is and has a dialogue with Cam and Mase about his feedback dismissing a possible combat in opposition to Shakur Stevenson, who he thinks brings him the hardest combat, and why a combat between him and Devin Haney by no means occurred. Try some excerpts beneath.
Teofimo Lopez on saying he’s not all that taken with preventing Shakur Stevenson as a result of respect he has for his supervisor J. Prince
“To be actual, simply I ain’t making an attempt to offer the person his first loss,” Lopez mentioned. “I’ll let someone else take that, deal with that. I seen Shakur lose within the amateurs — ‘trigger all of us from that class — and it ain’t a superb look, man.
“There was this one time particularly right here in Vegas, Nationwide Golden Gloves, 2015, similar 12 months me and Jaron Ennis ‘Boots’ gained, and Shakur, man, he misplaced it. He misplaced it, man. He misplaced to Ruben Villa after which he wished to go as much as one of many — I feel he did — went as much as one of many rooftop of the lodge and he wished to leap off. Yeah. I ain’t making an attempt to have precise blood on my palms.
“That Olympic shit, him tearing up and stuff, that ain’t nothing. Like, it’s been unhealthy.”
On who he suppose presents the hardest combat for him at 140
“It’s simply myself. No person may beat me, no one. It’s been proven, it’s been confirmed. At 140 I’m the one one nonetheless remaining, retaining my titles, and on the similar time nonetheless the king of the division, lineal world champion at 140.
“That’s why I used to be pondering I want a competitor. So I used to be pondering of Gervonta ‘Tank’ Davis or Terence ‘Bud’ Crawford.”
On why he by no means fought Devin Haney
“To be actual, that’s extra on his facet. I’ve tried thrice already with Haney. And the final time they had been imagined to have a gathering with my promoter Bob Arum from High Rank they usually by no means got here, by no means confirmed up.
“However the second that — my precise first defeat that they gave me, they jobbed me, however that first defeat that (they) gave me, who was fast to leap instantly to Kambosos? That was Devin Haney.”
