{"id":602096,"date":"2026-08-23T11:42:10","date_gmt":"2026-08-23T11:42:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/602096\/"},"modified":"2026-08-23T11:42:10","modified_gmt":"2026-08-23T11:42:10","slug":"boxing-teofimo-lopez-beats-rolando-romero-to-claim-wba-welterweight-title","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/602096\/","title":{"rendered":"Boxing: Teofimo Lopez beats Rolando Romero to claim WBA welterweight title"},"content":{"rendered":"

American Teofimo Lopez became a three-weight world champion by taking Rolando Romero’s WBA ‘Super’ welterweight world title at the T-Mobile Arena on Saturday in Las Vegas.<\/p>\n

Lopez, who has previously held world titles at lightweight and light-welterweight, secured a majority decision but declined to call out Briton Jack Catterall as his first defence. <\/p>\n

The 29-year-old instead wants to fight the winner of the upcoming WBC title fight<\/a> between holder Ryan Garcia and English challenger Conor Benn, or pursue another unification bout with Australia’s IBF champion Liam Paro.<\/p>\n

“September 12th, right?” he said, referring to Garcia’s fight with Benn,<\/a> which is scheduled to take place in the same Las Vegas ring. <\/p>\n

“So, you got Ryan Garcia versus Conor Benn. That’s the next one. We’ll see what happens there. If Conor wins, it’s a great fight to take across the pond [the Atlantic ocean]. <\/p>\n

“I think I’d rather wait for Devin [Haney, WBO champion] at the end. <\/p>\n

“So, it’ll either be Liam Paro next or the winner out of Ryan Garcia and Conor Benn.”<\/p>\n

Chorley fighter Catterall holds the WBA ‘Regular’ belt, which makes him next in line to fight Lopez unless the WBA decides to overlook him in favour of a unification bout.<\/p>\n

Catterall was quick to respond, posting on X:, external<\/a> “Congratulations Teofimo Lopez but I will be taking that belt 100%. Let’s Gooo.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"American Teofimo Lopez became a three-weight world champion by taking Rolando Romero’s WBA ‘Super’ welterweight world title at…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":602097,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-602096","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/602096","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=602096"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/602096\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/602097"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=602096"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=602096"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=602096"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}