{"id":756962,"date":"2026-06-24T10:05:09","date_gmt":"2026-06-24T10:05:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/756962\/"},"modified":"2026-06-24T10:05:09","modified_gmt":"2026-06-24T10:05:09","slug":"rolly-romero-and-teofimo-lopez-verbally-agree-to-august-title-fight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/756962\/","title":{"rendered":"Rolly Romero and Teofimo Lopez verbally agree to August title fight"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">Lance Pugmire, one of the last men standing at the freshly lobotomized BoxingScene, <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/pugboxing\/status\/2069545192617906236\" rel=\"nofollow\">reports<\/a> that WBA welterweight champion Rolando Romero has a \u201cverbal agreement\u201d to meet former two-division champion Teofimo Lopez this coming August.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">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\u2019t 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.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">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\u2019s counter-focused style deals with Romero\u2019s profoundly goofy offense.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Lance Pugmire, one of the last men standing at the freshly lobotomized BoxingScene, reports that WBA welterweight champion&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":215138,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[571],"tags":[64,63,802,1920,85],"class_list":["post-756962","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-boxing","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-boxing","tag-boxing-news","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/756962","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=756962"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/756962\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/215138"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=756962"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=756962"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=756962"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}