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Theophimio Lopez must soon decide if he wants to maintain his heavy weight title of the WBO or let him focus on his potential struggle in October against the 147 LB Champion of IBF, Jaron ‘Boots’ Ennis, on the letter. of Riyadh of Turki al-Sheikh.
Wbo deadline
The Ring reports that the Boxing World Organization has ordered Teophimo (21-0, 13 kos) to defend the 140-pound belt against the winner of the February 15 clash between Wbo Arnold Barboza Jr. (31-0, 11 kos) and #2 Jack Catterall (30-1, 13 ko).
Teo must defend his Wbo title against the winner of this struggle within 180 days, with a period of August 14. Although it is certainly possible that López defends his title against Barboza winner JR-CATTERALS at the moment, he seems 100% unreal that he will do because of the risk of losing.
The ”Brooklyn’s vampire“As some fans call Teophimo, it has been well protected by its promoters in the first place for the last four years since George Kamboses Jr. He exhibited it in a 12 -round decision -making defeat in 2021.
Even with the most careful range he has done for Theophimo, he still had to be saved from the defeats by the judges score in his fights against Sandor Martin and Jamaine Ortiz in 2022 and 2024.
Teo has been talked about fighting a unification against IBF’s heavy weight champion Richardson Hitchins (19-0, 7 kos), possibly in April as part of the three-fights agreement, López signed with Turki al-Sheikh.
However, since Teophim has not mentioned this struggle in interviews, this suggests that he is leaving this risky party. López would traditionally prevent This kind of struggle with each ounce of his being. He is unable to overcome a high-level talent like Hitchins, and would seem to be silly trying.
If Turki wants Teophimo to take this fight against the Hitchins, he may have to pay -an exorbitant sum or drag him to the ringing and shouting. It is not clear how much I would like to fight Hitchins, but it would not be surprising to be an absurd number.
This is a terrible party for López and would make it a bad start with a unilateral loss in his three -fights agreement with Turki. Al-Sheikh would not be bad if he had an escape clause in his contract with Theophimo to allow him to leave the agreement if he immediately loses in his first fight.
If Teo was embroiled in Hitchins in a unilateral defeat, it would be useless to Turki to fight the “boots” Ennis on his October card in Riyadh. Boxing fans would not want to see Teophimo again fight with Ennis at the back of a loss and four terrible performances against Steve Claggett, Jamaine Ortiz, Sandor Martin and George Kamboses Jr.
