{"id":847609,"date":"2026-08-08T05:20:10","date_gmt":"2026-08-08T05:20:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/847609\/"},"modified":"2026-08-08T05:20:10","modified_gmt":"2026-08-08T05:20:10","slug":"errol-spence-jr-picks-a-winner-in-teofimo-lopez-vs-rolly-romero-i-go-against-him-every-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/847609\/","title":{"rendered":"Errol Spence Jr picks a winner in Teofimo Lopez vs Rolly Romero: &#8220;I go against him every time&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With <a href=\"https:\/\/boxingnewsonline.net\/boxer\/teofimo-lopez\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Teofimo Lopez<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/boxingnewsonline.net\/boxer\/rolando-romero\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Rolando Romero<\/a> colliding for his old welterweight title on August 22, Errol Spence Jr has offered his thoughts on their Las Vegas showdown.<\/p>\n<p>The pair will square off at the T-Mobile Arena, with \u2018Rolly\u2019 making a first defence of his WBA belt after being elevated from \u2018regular\u2019 to full champion.<\/p>\n<p>His <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/boxing\/story\/_\/id\/44974939\/rolando-romero-disrupts-ryan-garcia-plans-massive-upset\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">unanimous decision victory over Ryan Garcia<\/a> was considered a sizable upset, especially after he scored a second-round knockdown in their May 2025 contest.<\/p>\n<p>But while the American looked impressive in his last outing, it is difficult to forget those previous stoppage defeats to <a href=\"https:\/\/boxingnewsonline.net\/boxer\/gervonta-davis\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Gervonta Davis<\/a> and Isaac Cruz.<\/p>\n<p>Lopez, meanwhile, is considered the more proven operator at this level, having become a two-weight world champion by dethroning Vasyl Lomachenko and Josh Taylor.<\/p>\n<p>Much like Romero, however, \u2018The Takeover\u2019 has been known to produce several uninspiring performances, including those that led to his contentious victories over Jamaine Ortiz and Sandor Martin.<\/p>\n<p>Most recently, the 29-year-old suffered a <a href=\"https:\/\/boxingnewsonline.net\/news\/teofimo-lopez-vs-shakur-stevenson-live\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">unanimous decision defeat to Shakur Stevenson<\/a> in January, yet this was largely due to his opponent\u2019s brilliance at 140lbs.<\/p>\n<p>In any case, former unified champion Spence has told <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tiktok.com\/@b.t.r.boxing\/video\/7670688266890333453?_r=1&amp;_t=ZG-98fQDq1jkCP\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">DAZN<\/a> that, while not fully confident, he is favouring Romero to pull off another upset victory.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou never know because every time I go against Rolly, Rolly wins. If Teo\u2019s on point, I got Teo. But Rolly could edge it. Rolly [causes] a lot of upsets, so I might roll with Rolly.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Lopez\u2019 only other defeat came against George Kambosos Jr in 2021, which the American subsequently blamed on health issues he was experiencing prior to their lightweight encounter.<\/p>\n<p>                                            <script async src=\"\/\/www.tiktok.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"With Teofimo Lopez and Rolando Romero colliding for his old welterweight title on August 22, Errol Spence Jr&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":847610,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[571],"tags":[64,63,802,85],"class_list":["post-847609","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-boxing","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-boxing","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/847609","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=847609"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/847609\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/847610"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=847609"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=847609"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=847609"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}