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Edgar Berlanga wit another knockout
Lol @ fighter of the year candidate for beating bums, someone put an end to this Clay Collard nonsense.
I don't think the flash knockdown is that big of a deal. I might have to rewatch, but I remember Loma kicking Linares ass and dude was literally coming forward with his hands down. He just got careless, but he wasn't actually hurt.
The biggest question mark that I have personally, is Teofimo's mental fortitude. Can Loma make him give up. I don't know if I just made this up, but I feel like I remember Lopez talking about retirement after the Nakatani fight.
That wasn't a flash KD.I don't think the flash knockdown is that big of a deal. I might have to rewatch, but I remember Loma kicking Linares ass and dude was literally coming forward with his hands down. He just got careless, but he wasn't actually hurt.
The biggest question mark that I have personally, is Teofimo's mental fortitude. Can Loma make him give up. I don't know if I just made this up, but I feel like I remember Lopez talking about retirement after the Nakatani fight.
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That wasn't a flash KD.
It was a straight punch that connected flush and put Loma on his ass. He just got up quick.
Boxing brain says Loma, but IDK. Lopez has a lot of power and is also quite athletic. Loma's getting older and hasn't been comfy at 135. I could see a Lopez KO, but, could also see him getting 10-2'd. Still undecided.
Teofimo Lopez exudes charisma and power. He has added structure for his biggest fight yet.
“I was dealing with so much stuff during that time,” Teofimo Lopez, who has a unification bout Saturday against Vasiliy Lomachenko, said of his uninspired performance last year at MGM National Harbor. (Mikey Williams/Top Rank)
By
Gene Wang
Oct. 14, 2020 at 8:35 a.m. EDT
When Teofimo Lopez stepped into the ring at MGM National Harbor last summer, the aura surrounding the Brooklyn-born lightweight was of a youthful and charismatic power puncher perhaps on the verge of global stardom.
His performance that evening fell well short by any measure, with Lopez winning via unanimous decision but failing to showcase the knockout artistry that had elevated his standing enough to be considered a contender for a major belt.
Lopez subsequently revealed he had been trying to manage tumult in his personal life throughout training camp, leaving him distracted and unable to reach the peak physical condition that had contributed to knockouts in each of his previous five bouts, none of which went beyond seven rounds.
“I was dealing with so much stuff during that time,” Lopez said in a telephone interview last week, declining to go into details. “From that point on, we just learned and we just figured out more things. We ended up becoming more structured as a team. ... Our biggest key in everything I needed was structure.”
Fifteen months later, Lopez (15-0, 12 knockouts) is back on his original trajectory as he approaches the most significant match of his career. He faces Vasiliy Lomachenko in a 135-pound unification main event Saturday night in the fan-free boxing bubble at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas.
At stake will be Lopez’s International Boxing Federation title as well as Lomachenko’s World Boxing Association and World Boxing Organization championship belts. Lomachenko also is the World Boxing Council “franchise” champion, a special designation that does not come with a belt.
Championship straps notwithstanding, a victory undoubtedly would boost Lopez’s profile considerably, given Lomachenko (14-1, 10 KOs) is ranked the No. 1 pound-for-pound fighter in the world by ESPN and second by Ring magazine behind Canelo Alvarez.
Following a pre-fight blueprint since turning professional four years ago, Lopez, 23, has unleashed a verbal assault on Lomachenko, 32, boldly predicting a knockout of the Ukrainian southpaw while calling the ESPN-televised bout personal.
Lopez has become somewhat of a viral sensation for his post-fight celebrations, which have included a dance from the wildly popular video game “Fortnite” and donning the jersey of Heisman Trophy winning quarterbacks, executing a backflip and striking the Heisman pose.
In Lopez’s most recent fight, when he scored a second-round knockout of Richard Commey to win the IBF title Dec. 14 at Madison Square Garden, he draped himself in a Joe Burrow jersey only hours after the LSU quarterback won the Heisman at the Downtown Athletic Club in Manhattan.
A straight right crumpled Commey to the canvas in the second round, and referee David Fields stopped the proceedings at 1:13 after Lopez repeatedly landed blows moments later against a defenseless opponent who had staggered into the ropes.
“There’s no such thing as overly confident,” Lopez said. “Honestly, you are what you say you are. If you believe you’re the best, you’ve got to show it out there and do it every time, and that’s what I’m willing to do and going to do each and every time.”
The thorough dismantling of Commey served as Lopez’s first bout after that inglorious night in Oxon Hill when he unexpectedly went the distance against unheralded challenger Masayoshi Nakatani, a prohibitive underdog fighting in the United States for the first time.
Among the changes for Lopez in the aftermath was hiring a nutritionist. His diet these days includes more leafy greens and cruciferous vegetables. He also pays more attention to hydration, allowing him to maximize his training regimen.
He moved his training camp to Flemington, N.J., and has added trainer Joey Gamache to his team to go with outspoken head trainer and father Teofimo Lopez Sr., known affectionately as “Junior.” Gamache worked with Lomachenko for several fights early in his career.
“It’s a lesson learned,” the younger Lopez said of moving on from the Nakatani bout. “It helped for the better. It was something that I needed. Mentally when I came into my next fight, which was Richard Commey, the world champion, all I thought about was myself.
“The only person that’s really going to take care of me is going to be me. I’m in that ring. Put all the BS to the side.”
Honestly I think if Teo catches him it'll be with an over hand right. I also think Loma will over maneuver himself into being left open, as he tends to do.Exactly. Already said this but the key to beating Loma is consistent body punching. In his loss to Salido we saw what happened but with Linares I thought he was visibly uncomfortable when he went downstairs. And that old saying comes to mind where good body punchers don’t like it downstairs either
Honestly I think if Teo catches him it'll be with an over hand right. I also think Loma will over maneuver himself into being left open, as he tends to do.
75% of the reasons I picked Mikey to KO loma, i think Lopez can. Obviously Lopez isn't anywhere near as good of a boxer, but he's far mroe athletic and quick to pull the trigger.