Via Dan Ambrose: Former lightweight champion Regis Prograis said that Teofimo Lopez needs to fix a lot of errors in his match before he is ready to face the “dogs” at the age of 140.
Based on what Prograis saw of former 135 lb unified champion Teofimo (17-1, 13 KOs) in his win over second-place boxer Pedro Campa last Saturday night, he’ll be beaten by 140-pounders pounds of rodents.
Prograis says that Teofimo is getting hit too hard for him to be ready to face better fighters at 140. Campa doesn’t have the strength to bother Teofimo, which is why the New Yorkers can stand up to him. ta.
We saw that George Kambosos Jr wasn’t the puncher who knocked out Teofimo last November, but he has better power than Campa. It’s fair to say that if Teofimo had faced Kambosos in a rematch last Saturday, he would have lost again.
Best at 140:
- Regis Prograis
- Jose Zepeda
- Josh Taylor
- Jose Ramirez
- Subriel Matias
- Arnold Barboza
- Jack Catterall
- Gary Antuanne Russell
- Shakram Giyasov
- Montana love
- Jeremias Ponce
“The fight back is good, but the dogs at 140 will chew on him,” Regis Prograis said on Twitter in reaction to Teofimo’s win over Pedro Campa.
I just watched Teo’s fight in full. It was a good performance against someone he had to build his confidence on. He still got a lot of shots that he should have avoided. He’ll have to fix some bugs to compete with any of the larger 140s. in my opinion
– Rougarou (@RPrograis) August 14, 2022
“I see that we’ve got him. He just opened for all shots, and I told him on the seventh round, ‘Here’s the round,’ and he did it,” Teofimo Lopez Sr told Fighthype about what led to Teo’s seventh knockout.
“He went on the pitch and performed amazingly. That guy is no joke. I take my hat off to him because that guy came to win. He is a tough fighter. He will bring up any problem to anyone, anyone.
“My son doesn’t throw his power that much. What the hell is he boxing for? When he starts hitting him with some good shots, that’s when he starts to open up. He started to hurt.
“This guy can take punches. He would fall with a lot of punches that my son hit. He didn’t want to go down, especially that left hook only caught him all night and his right hand.
“I said to him, ‘Right hand,’ and that’s how he knocked him down with his right hand. We can fight Josh Taylor. Who has the belt, that’s who we want,” said Teofimo Sr.
