6/10 ESPN: "Ready to Die" Teofimo Lopez vs Josh Taylor (WBO & Ring Magazine Jr Welterweight Championship)

[Agent Mulder]

Teo setting the tone, AGAIN.

 

[R=G]

Hope Teo don't try to committ suicide if he loses..its like he can't handle being a loser at all.

 

[Apollo Creed]

Hope Teo don't try to committ suicide if he loses..its like he can't handle being a loser at all.

he woulda been better off taking year off. If Taylor beats his ass nikka needs to be on suicide watch for real.

 

[Agent Mulder]

 

[patscorpio]

Xander Zayas vs. Ronald Cruz Top Have 'Miguel Cotto Award' at Stake​

BY RANDOM HITS
Published Tue May 23, 2023, 04:33 PM EDT
Junior middleweight phenom Xander Zayas (15-0, 10 KOs) will have an extra source of motivation for his upcoming fight.
The 20-year-old standout will fight Ronald “Diablo” Cruz (18-2-1, 12 KOs) on Saturday, June 10 for the second annual Miguel Cotto Award, which is presented by Top Rank and Madison Square Garden Entertainment. The Miguel Cotto Award celebrates the remarkable career of the legendary four-division world champion and upholds the tradition of hosting a major fight card during Puerto Rican Day Parade weekend. Cotto, who achieved notable wins against Muhammad Abdullaev, Paulie Malignaggi, Zab Judah, Joshua Clottey, Sergio Martinez and Daniel Geale during this festive weekend, will present the award at The Theater at Madison Square Garden following the June 10 bout.
Zayas-Cruz will be the co-feature to the junior welterweight showdown between WBO and Ring Magazine world champion Josh Taylor and former unified and lineal lightweight king Teofimo Lopez.
Taylor-Lopez and Zayas-Cruz will be broadcast live on ESPN, ESPN Deportes and ESPN+ at 10 p.m. ET/7 p.m. PT.
Cotto said, “For me, it’s a great honor and a great pleasure that Madison Square Garden and Top Rank have an award with my name to continue the tradition of fight cards during Puerto Rican Day Parade weekend. This award will motivate future generations to deliver their best in each fight.”
“Miguel Cotto has made an immeasurable mark on boxing at ‘The Mecca’ - Madison Square Garden,” said Joel Fisher, executive vice president, Marquee Events and Operations, Madison Square Garden Entertainment. “We’re thrilled to celebrate Cotto’s warrior legacy during the Puerto Rican Day Parade weekend with the presentation of the second annual award to the winner of the Xander Zayas v. Ronald Cruz fight on Saturday, June 10.”
Zayas said, “I’ve always said that in the world of boxing, Miguel Cotto is my favorite fighter. He is the reason I decided to become a fighter. It’s a total honor and a dream come true to have the opportunity to fight for an award that has his name. This confirms for me that we are on the right path, and it motivates me to keep working hard to continue accomplishing my dreams. I want to unite my Island and all of the Puerto Ricans in the United States in the same way that Miguel did. That is my biggest dream, and I will achieve it.”

 

[patscorpio]

Josh Taylor Has Requested That There Aren’t Three American Judges For Teofimo Lopez Fight​

BY KEITH IDEC
Published Wed May 24, 2023, 06:01 PM EDT
Josh Taylor doesn’t think three American judges gave him enough credit for his performance against Jose Ramirez in Taylor’s last fight in the United States.
The Scottish southpaw is therefore hopeful that three American judges aren’t assigned to score his upcoming 12-round, 140-pound championship bout with Teofimo Lopez. Taylor (19-0, 13 KOs) will defend his WBO junior welterweight title versus Lopez on June 10 in a main event ESPN will televise from The Theater at Madison Square Garden in New York.
Lopez (18-1, 13 KOs) was born in Brooklyn and has also resided in South Florida and Las Vegas.
“Obviously, I’ve requested to have three different judges, that there not be all American judges,” Taylor told BoxingScene.com. “So, hopefully they accept what we’ve requested and hopefully that’s the case. But I don’t let things like that bother me anyway. I believe in myself and I’m confident in my ability, that it’s gonna be that much of a dominant display, that the judges can’t deny me.”
The New York State Athletic Commission approved a diverse panel of judges for Lopez’s last fight, a 10-rounder against Spain’s Sandor Martin that took place December 10 at Madison Square Garden.
Canada’s Pasquale Procopio (97-92) and California’s Max De Luca (96-93) both scored that fight for Lopez. Italy’s Guido Cavalleri scored Martin a 95-94 winner over Lopez, who was knocked down during the second round.
New York’s Ricky Gonzalez was the referee for the Lopez-Martin match, which Taylor recalled could’ve gone “either way.”
There were two judges from his opponent’s home country when Taylor defended his IBF, WBA, WBC and WBO 140-pound crowns last year at The SSE Hydro in Glasgow, Scotland. England’s Ian John-Lewis (114-111) and Scotland’s Victor Loughlin (113-112) scored that 12-round fight for Taylor, whereas England’s Howard Foster scored their February 2022 bout 113-112 for England’s Jack Catterall.
An English referee, Marcus McDonnell, deducted a point apiece from Taylor and Catterall that night. McDonnell took a point from Catterall for holding in the 10th round and a point from Taylor for hitting Catterall after the bell sounded to conclude the 11th round.
Nine months earlier, Taylor defeated Ramirez (28-1, 18 KOs), of Avenal, California, by the same score, 114-112, according to each judge of their 12-round, 140-pound title unification fight in May 2021 at Virgin Hotels Las Vegas. Nevada residents Tim Cheatham and Dave Moretti and New Jersey’s Steve Weisfeld scored that fight identically.
The two knockdowns Taylor produced – one in the sixth round and another in the seventh round – accounted for the difference on the cards of Cheatham, Moretti and Weisfeld, who scored six rounds apiece for Taylor and Ramirez.
Moretti, 78, has again drawn criticism for how he scored the Devin Haney-Vasiliy Lomachenko fight last Saturday night at MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas.
Moretti scored Haney a wider winner, 116-112, than Cheatham (115-113) and David Sutherland (115-113). He also scored the 10th round, a round Lomachenko appeared to win definitively, for Haney.
Taylor felt Haney-Lomachenko – a 12-round fight for Haney’s IBF, WBA, WBC and WBO lightweight titles – was very competitive.
“Having seen that fight, I don’t know what all the huge fuss is about, the Lomachenko fight,” Taylor said. “I think it was a fight that could’ve gone either way.”

 

[reservoirdogs]

Idk which one of these guys I want to see lose less
Better be a double KO

 

[Agent Mulder]

 

[Agent Mulder]

 

[patscorpio]

Teofimo Lopez Says He Stands By Controversial Comments: ‘I Wouldn’t Be Teofimo If I Did Apologize’​

BY SEAN NAM
Published Wed May 31, 2023, 09:25 AM EDT
Don’t expect Teofimo Lopez to issue a mea culpa for his highly contentious words.
The former undisputed lightweight champion and current 140-pound contender came under fire last month when he offered remarks that were perceived as hostile, especially toward Black fighters. Among his claims, Lopez said he believed his promoter, Top Rank, was favoring their roster of Black fighters over him.
Public opprobrium was swift, with many characterizing Lopez’s comments as racist. Lopez’s father and trainer, Teofimo Lopez Sr, subsequently attempted to defend his son, saying his son’s words were misconstrued.
For those seeking an apology from the fighter himself, however, their expectations would apparently be for naught.
In a recent interview—arranged ahead of Lopez’s scheduled June 10 fight against WBO 140-pound titlist Josh Taylor at The Theater at Madison Square Garden in New York City—Lopez made it clear he did not regret what he said.
“I wouldn’t be Teofimo if I did apologize,” Lopez told Punsh Drunk Boxing. “I don’t apologize to any of the stuff that I say. If you take it wrong, then that’s on you because I don’t take it to that extreme. No I don’t. I know my place. Trust me, brothers. Trust me, sisters. I know my place. I just don’t…I just speak a certain kind of way, strategically, on one specific thing. But others will turn my words and switch it around to do what they got to do to pay with it.”
Lopez said his intransigence is in part due to the lack of sympathetic outreach he received when he was hospitalized with a serious lung condition after his points loss to George Kambosos Jr. in 2021,
“I mean they promote that more than they do my own fight right now,” Lopez said. “Am I sorry? No, I’m not sorry. I just speak on what it is. No one’s sorry for me. When I was dying and when I was in the ICU after my fight, no one said Teofimo, wish you well, hope you’re good. No one wrote to me.”

 

[aceboon]

 

[patscorpio]

 

[NZA]

hopefully taylor KOs teo, wakes him up, and then sends him to a qualified mental health professional

 

[Agent Mulder]

 

[R=G]

I SWEAR TO GOODNESS i have never seen this video..the last 15 secs is fukkING COMEDY