Teofimo Lopez spoke to some boxing media ahead of his upcoming title fight against Rolly Romero and fielded some questions about a few topics, including a failed fight between Devin Haney vs Keyshawn Davis, his own fight against Rolly, and more. Check out some of what he had to say below.<\/p>\n
On Keyshawn Davis turning down Devin Haney fight<\/p>\n
\u201cI mean, it is confusing. We can only express from our point of view, a third [party] point of view but I think that maybe it\u2019s just something he\u2019s dealing with Top Rank. That could possibly be the problem right there. I\u2019ve had my issues with Top Rank in the past, so I wouldn\u2019t be surprised if that\u2019s the case. But, he\u2019s back \u2014 so to speak \u2014 training, so we\u2019ll see what happens.\u201d<\/p>\n
On Rolly saying he loaned him $5K when he was down<\/p>\n
\u201cI lent him $20K. The $15k was for like a Rolex that he had apparently, allegedly, had took from somebody else. And then, yeah, I had like paid it for his sister at one point\u2026But I know I paid him $15k plus $5K.\u201d<\/p>\n
On fighting a good friend of his in Rolly<\/p>\n
\u201cNot a good friend, man. I think a good friend is one that doesn\u2019t do it. Yeah, he took the fight, he was the champ, he is the champ. He didn\u2019t need to take the fight, he took the fight for his own reasons. So, we\u2019ll settle the score after.\u201d<\/p>\n
On whether he would\u2019ve taken the money offered to Keyshawn (over $2.1M) to get the title shot against Haney<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019ve taken fights for a million. Yeah [I was surprised he didn\u2019t accept the fight]. That\u2019s the problem with the sport.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Teofimo Lopez spoke to some boxing media ahead of his upcoming title fight against Rolly Romero and fielded…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":854793,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[447],"tags":[703,711,49,48,82],"class_list":["post-854792","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-boxing","tag-boxing","tag-boxing-news","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/854792","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=854792"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/854792\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/854793"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=854792"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=854792"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=854792"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}