Former featherweight champion Luis Alberto Lopez has signed with ProBoxTV, and is being targeted for a September 11 card in the greater San Diego area, BoxingScene has learned.<\/p>\n
A former fighter in the Top Rank stable, Mexico\u2019s \u201cVenado\u201d Lopez, 32-3 (19 KOs), has won his past two junior lightweight fights in Mexicali by stoppage and knockout after losing his belt to ProBox\u2019s IBF 126lbs champion Angelo Leo in an August 2024 upset.<\/p>\n
Before that, Lopez, 32, successfully defended his belt three times [versus Michael Conlan, Joet Gonzalez and Reiya Abe] after first winning the title in 2022 in England versus Josh Warrington.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019m really excited to be part of this company,” Lopez said of his move to ProBoxTV. “It\u2019s a new chapter in my road to be a two-time world champion,\u201d Lopez said.<\/p>\n
The loss to Leo by a 10th-round knockout when all three scorecards were separated by just one point has affected Lopez, who says he\u2019s motivated to literally lift himself from that moment and regain a belt.<\/p>\n
He\u2019s ranked No. 6 by the WBO and No. 11 by the IBF in the current rankings as he heads to ProBox\u2019s September 11 card at Frontwave Arena in Oceanside, California.<\/p>\n
\u00a0\u201cA lot of things have been said after my loss. I\u2019m not going to lie, there have been some hard moments, but I feel ready to make my comeback,\u201d Lopez told BoxingScene. \u201cIt\u2019s time to show the boxing world that I\u2019m ready for the best. I want to thank ProBox for this opportunity. The best is yet to come.\u201d<\/p>\n
Lopez\u2019s opponent and placement on the card has yet to be finalized.<\/p>\n
The promotion is turning to a $5-per-month subscription model next month with a card headlined by WBC interim super-middleweight beltholder Lester Martinez August 29 at USC\u2019s Galen Center in Los Angeles. It was also feature outings for Najee Lopez, Ramon Canderas, Luis Torres and Weljon Mindoro.<\/p>\n
\u201cI can\u2019t think of a better home for us than ProBox,\u201d Lopez advisor Hector Fernandez said. \u201c[ProBox executives] are just like us \u2026 people may not believe we can make it, but both of our teams have been kicking ass. <\/p>\n
\u201cProBox knows the way to [make Lopez] a two-time world champion and we want to take advantage of the opportunity.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Former featherweight champion Luis Alberto Lopez has signed with ProBoxTV, and is being targeted for a September 11…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":693676,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[2560,111626,10078,230817,210760,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-693675","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-boxing","tag-boxing","tag-boxingnews","tag-boxingscene","tag-luis-alberto-lopez","tag-proboxtv","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/693675","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=693675"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/693675\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/693676"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=693675"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=693675"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=693675"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}