{"id":855980,"date":"2026-08-15T09:12:09","date_gmt":"2026-08-15T09:12:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/855980\/"},"modified":"2026-08-15T09:12:09","modified_gmt":"2026-08-15T09:12:09","slug":"rolly-romero-putting-friendship-aside-against-teofimo-lopez","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/855980\/","title":{"rendered":"Rolly Romero putting friendship aside against Teofimo Lopez"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"MsoNormal\">WBA Welterweight Champion Rolly Romero says friendship will have nothing to do with him making the first defense of title against two-division world champion Teofimo Lopez on Saturday, August 22, at the T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Romero, 17-2 (13 KOs) of Las Vegas, will face Lopez, 22-2 (13 KOs), also currently of Las Vegas, to headline a PBC Pay-Per-View event available on DAZN (as a standalone PPV or via the DAZN Ultimate Tier) and for purchase on Amazon Prime Video Prime Video (8 pm ET\/5 pm PT).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"WBA Welterweight Champion Rolly Romero says friendship will have nothing to do with him making the first defense&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":855981,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[571],"tags":[64,63,802,1920,6653,26699,85,103377],"class_list":["post-855980","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-boxing","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-boxing","tag-boxing-news","tag-boxingscene","tag-rolando-romero","tag-sports","tag-teofimo-lopez"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/855980","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=855980"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/855980\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/855981"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=855980"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=855980"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=855980"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}