Thatrogueassdiaz
We're on the blood path now
Teofimos's eyes look very spaced out to me. He doesn't look all there. I think this is going to be a disaster for him.
6/10 ESPN: "Ready to Die" Teofimo Lopez vs Josh Taylor (WBO & Ring Magazine Jr Welterweight Championship)
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TEO BY KO! You’ll win big and can rub it in all his haters faces
@SymbolicOne09 this is not a guy that makes any good boxing predictions
...he picked ryan garcia over tank
Josh Taylor vs Teofimo Lopez | OFFICIAL WEIGH-IN
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Taylor looked great making weight, he’s motivated
easy work tomorrow
easy work tomorrow
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nikka been flooding my YT feed talking shyt bout Haney and couldn't even make weightThis dude man cmon
Josh Taylor, Teofimo Lopez Make Weight; Jamaine Ortiz Overweight, Scratched From Undercard
BY KEITH IDEC
Published Fri Jun 09, 2023, 02:12 PM EDT
Josh Taylor and Teofimo Lopez were kept completely apart again Friday after they made weight at Madison Square Garden.
Taylor talked trash and pointed at his head to indicate that he is mentally stronger than Lopez. A calmer Lopez looked directly at Taylor from across the stage, but the former unified lightweight champion didn’t say anything to his opponent before they went their separate ways.
Moments earlier, Taylor stepped on the New York State Athletic Commission scale at 139.8 pounds. Lopez was slightly heavier, as he stripped naked and officially weighed in at their division’s maximum of 140 pounds.
Scotland’s Taylor, 32, will defend his WBO junior welterweight title against Lopez on Saturday night in New York. Brooklyn’s Lopez, 25, is the mandatory challenger for Taylor’s title.
Most sportsbooks listed Taylor as a 2-1 favorite Friday to beat Lopez in a 12-round main event ESPN will televise from The Theater at Madison Square Garden.
Taylor (19-0, 13 KOs) will end a 15-month layoff when he opposes Lopez (18-1, 13 KOs). The former fully unified 140-pound champion hasn’t fought since February 2022, when he overcame an eighth-round knockdown and eked out a 12-round split decision against England’s Jack Catterall.
Taylor and Catterall (27-1, 13 KOs) were scheduled to fight again earlier this year, but their 12-round rematch was postponed twice. The second postponement was caused when Taylor suffered a foot injury while training in January.
Their fight, which had already been pushed back from February 4 to March 4, was not rescheduled again because the WBO later ordered Taylor to defend his title against Lopez next. Taylor gave up the IBF, WBA and WBC 140-pound championships after he beat Catterall last year because he didn’t want to make mandatory defenses of those belts in fights that didn’t interest him.
Earlier Friday, lightweight contender Jamaine Ortiz (16-1-1, 8 KOs) withdrew from his scheduled 10-round fight against Mexico’s Humberto Galindo (14-3-1, 11 KOs) on the Taylor-Lopez undercard because Ortiz couldn’t come close to making the contracted weight for their fight.
The 27-year-old Ortiz, of Worcester, Massachusetts, recently signed a co-promotional deal with Bob Arum’s Top Rank. He hasn’t fought since he tested Vasiliy Lomachenko (17-3, 11 KOs) in their 12-round, 135-pound fight October 29 in The Theater at Madison Square Garden.
The official weights for the six remaining fights on the Taylor-Lopez undercard are listed below.
ESPN
10 p.m. EDT; 7 p.m. PDT
Xander Zayas (15-0, 10 KOs), Sunrise, Florida, 152.8 pounds vs. Ronald Cruz (18-2-1, 12 KOs), Los Angeles, 152.4 pounds, 8 rounds, junior middleweights.
ESPN+
6:15 p.m. EDT; 3:15 PDT
Robson Conceicao (17-2, 8 KOs), Salvador, Brazil, 130.6 pounds vs. Nicolas Polanco (20-4-1, 11 KOs), Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, 130 pounds, 10 rounds, junior lightweights.
Omar Rosario (10-0, 3 KOs), Caguas, Puerto Rico, 139.2 pounds vs. Jan Carlos Rivera (8-1, 6 KOs), Philadelphia, 138.4 pounds, 8 rounds, junior welterweights.
Damian Knyba (11-0, 7 KOs), Wudzyn, Poland, 261.4 pounds vs. Helaman Olguin (9-5-1, 4 KOs), South Jordan, Utah, 256.8 pounds, 8 rounds, heavyweights.
Bruce Carrington (7-0, 4 KOs), Brooklyn, 126.8 pounds vs. Luis Porozo (16-6, 9 KOs), Santo Domingo, Ecuador, 126.4 pounds, 8 rounds, junior lightweights.
Henry Lebron (17-0, 10 KOs), Aguadilla, Puerto Rico, 129.2 pounds vs. Carlos Ramos (17-2, 10 KOs), Madrid, Spain, 129.6 pounds, 10 rounds, junior lightweights.
Damn, Teo just got to 140 not long ago and dude already got to go au naturale to make weight.
dude finna get his ass beat, he aint serious
Jamaine Ortiz Explains That Back Injury Affected Weight Cut, Eyes August Return at 135
BY RANDOM HITS
Published Fri Jun 09, 2023, 03:56 PM EDT
Jamaine Ortiz (16-1-1, 8 KOs) was looking to put the lightweight division on notice tomorrow night at Madison Square Garden’s Theater on the undercard of the highly anticipated bout between Josh Taylor and Teofimo Lopez.
Unfortunately, "The Technician" was forced to withdraw from his lightweight bout against Humberto Galindo due to an injury suffered during training camp that impacted his ability to make weight.
"I injured my back a few weeks ago and it interrupted my training," explained the disappointed Worcester native. "For 3 weeks, I had severe back spasms and couldn’t train properly. I tried to push my body to the limit as soon as I felt better, but I hit a wall and the last few pounds just wouldn’t come off. I work with a dietician and follow a strict systematic plan to make weight, but I couldn’t follow it properly this time because of the amount of weight I had to lose after the injury."
The 27-year-old hopes to return to the ring as soon as possible and has a message for the fans who traveled to New York to see him perform on Saturday.
"My team is working on a date in August," stated Ortiz, who is co-promoted by CES Boxing and Top Rank. "My sincerest apologies to my opponent, my promoters CES and Top Rank, Jimmy Burchfield and everyone who made their way to New York City to see me fight. I tried my best to make weight despite the interruption, but I couldn’t make it safely."
Ortiz emphasized that he will remain at lightweight as he is confident that he can make the limit given a normal training camp. Stay tuned for a new date over the next few weeks.
