The Stomping Ground<\/a> about what he feels went wrong.<\/p>\n\u201cI was too focused on one particular thing [instead of] really enjoying what I could see opening. I was catching him with the body shots a lot, that was effective, but [I needed] more combinations. I did poorly [by] not listening to my team. That\u2019s on me. Take it on the chin. My team did a phenomenal job, they had great guidelines and instructions, I just didn\u2019t listen tonight \u2026 I knew about his jab \u2026 I was playing too much to his game, that\u2019s all.\u201d<\/p>\n
Though the fighter himself believes the guidelines were \u2018great,\u2019 his father and trainer, Teofimo Lopez Sr, has come in for sever criticism for poor corner work in between rounds, failing to deliver clear instructions and instead barking things like \u2018you\u2019ll hate yourself tomorrow.\u2019<\/p>\n
Lopez then opened up on his general feelings after the contest, remaning humble in defeat and refusing to appreciate the genuinely impressive achievements that led him to this moment.<\/p>\n
\u201c[Being here] is an accomplishment in itself. Where do we take it now? We\u2019ll see. I think it\u2019s more of healing this cut and getting back to the drawing board. See where we go, if I move up, what I do next.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cNo, not at all [I don\u2019t appreciate what I\u2019ve done in my career]. I hate myself for it, but it\u2019s part of it. It\u2019s just part of the life. I don\u2019t appreciate it. I think that I get butchered and I think God punishes me a lot for it. I\u2019m just a punching bag to that. Maybe one day I\u2019ll get to that, but not yet. It\u2019s all good. I just never got my fair share. Not once, man. But, hey, that\u2019s just my journey. I just gotta keep it moving \u2026 We\u2019ll be back in some way, some form \u2026 I\u2019m in a good position to be here and take it on the chin like a real champ.\u201d<\/p>\n
Fans can expect to wait a while to hear what Lopez does next. As for Stevenson, he called out Conor Benn in a move that would see him move up in weight yet again.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Teofimo Lopez was thoroughly outclassed by Shakur Stevenson at Madison Square Garden this weekend, surrendering his WBO Super-Lightweight…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":448006,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[447],"tags":[703,49,48,82],"class_list":["post-448005","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-boxing","tag-boxing","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/448005","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=448005"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/448005\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/448006"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=448005"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=448005"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=448005"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}