Lance Pugmire, one of the last men standing at the freshly lobotomized BoxingScene, reports that WBA welterweight champion Rolando Romero has a “verbal agreement” to meet former two-division champion Teofimo Lopez this coming August.
An August meeting with Lopez (22-2, 13 KO), who lost his super lightweight belt in a January rout at the hands of Shakur Stevenson, would pretty clearly preclude that. People aren’t going to be busting down the doors to see Romero vs Catterall, but the WBA binning an order barely a month after delivering it is grody even by their non-existent standards.
Taken on its own merits, Romero vs Lopez is a perfectly solid matchup, a reasonable welterweight debut for Lopez and an opportunity for Romero to either cash out or prove that the Garcia win was no fluke. Could be interesting to see how Lopez’s counter-focused style deals with Romero’s profoundly goofy offense.