{"id":52713,"date":"2025-08-08T13:03:06","date_gmt":"2025-08-08T13:03:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/52713\/"},"modified":"2025-08-08T13:03:06","modified_gmt":"2025-08-08T13:03:06","slug":"teofimo-lopez-offered-unification-fight-by-undefeated-world-champion-easy-work","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/52713\/","title":{"rendered":"Teofimo Lopez Offered Unification Fight By Undefeated World Champion: &#8220;Easy Work&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Former unified lightweight champion <a href=\"https:\/\/www.secondsout.com\/topic\/teofimo-lopez\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Teofimo Lopez<\/a> appears to have been offered a chance to unify the super-lightweight division next.<\/p>\n<p>The 28-year-old from Brooklyn, New York currently holds the WBO super-lightweight title, making several successful defences of his crown since he dethroned former undisputed champion Josh Taylor back in June of 2023.<\/p>\n<p>He made his most recent ring appearance at Times Square in New York on May 2, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/boxing\/story\/_\/id\/44973123\/teofimo-lopez-defeats-arnold-barboza-unanimous-decision-retain-wbo-junior-welterweight-championship\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">defeating mandatory challenger and fellow countryman Arnold Barboza Jr via unanimous decision<\/a> to retain his WBO crown for the third time.<\/p>\n<p>As \u2018The Takeover\u2019 prepares to make his return to the ring, which could come before the end of the year, the 28-year-old appears to have been offered to chance to unify the 140lb division against an unbeaten world champion next.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/HeIsRichardson\/status\/1953154581472350529?t=gcklEpo6-4NKZXxWzMiBAw&amp;s=19\" rel=\"nofollow\">Posting on social media<\/a>, reigning IBF super-lightweight champion Richardson Hitchins expressed an interest in facing Lopez next, claiming his fellow countryman would be \u2018easy work\u2019.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI want Teofimo Lopez after that I want Devin Haney, easy work, drops the f***ing mic. Send the contract!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Hitchins captured the IBF crown at 140lbs last December, defeating Australia\u2019s Liam Paro via split decision at the Roberto Clemente Coliseum in Puerto Rico to become a world champion for the very first time.<\/p>\n<p>The 27-year-old returned to the ring to make the first defence of his title on June 14, stopping former unified world lightweight champion George Kambosos Jr with a thunderous body shot in the eighth round of their clash at the Madison Square Garden Theatre in New York City.<\/p>\n<p>Hitchins isn\u2019t the only world champion that Lopez has been linked with, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.secondsout.com\/news\/stevenson-agrees-to-fight-world-champion\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">with a fight against Shakur Stevenson supposedly \u2018agreed\u2019 for January.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Former unified lightweight champion Teofimo Lopez appears to have been offered a chance to unify the super-lightweight division&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":52714,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[2560,101,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-52713","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-boxing","8":"tag-boxing","9":"tag-sports","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52713","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=52713"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52713\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/52714"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52713"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52713"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52713"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}