{"id":753271,"date":"2026-08-29T05:46:12","date_gmt":"2026-08-29T05:46:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/753271\/"},"modified":"2026-08-29T05:46:12","modified_gmt":"2026-08-29T05:46:12","slug":"teofimo-lopez-makes-final-decision-on-rolly-romero-rematch-after-voluntary-title-shot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/753271\/","title":{"rendered":"Teofimo Lopez makes final decision on Rolly Romero rematch after voluntary title shot"},"content":{"rendered":"

Teofimo Lopez<\/a> has offered his thoughts on a rematch with Rolando Romero<\/a> after dethroning \u2018Rolly\u2019 with a majority decision victory last weekend.<\/p>\n

Despite what the scorecards might suggest, it was a largely convincing performance that saw \u2018The Takeover\u2019 become a three-division world champion<\/a> in Las Vegas.<\/p>\n

Other than in the fifth-round, when he seriously hurt Lopez with an overhand right, Romero was rarely doing enough to gather any kind of momentum.<\/p>\n

In fact, many felt he let Lopez off the hook and, from round six onwards, it became increasingly difficult to envision \u2018Rolly\u2019 keeping hold of his WBA title.<\/p>\n

It therefore came as no surprise when Lopez had his hand raised, despite coming off a wide unanimous decision defeat to Shakur Stevenson<\/a> in January.<\/p>\n

In terms of what could be next, then, the 29-year-old has expressed his interest in unification matches with Devin Haney or the winner of Ryan Garcia vs Conor Benn, which takes place at Las Vegas\u2019 T-Mobile Arena on September 12.<\/p>\n

In any case, Lopez has told Ariel Helwani<\/a> that he sees no reason to entertain a welterweight rematch with Romero.<\/p>\n

\u201cYou\u2019ve got to do more than that to have a rematch. I think that\u2019s where he messed up \u2013 he didn\u2019t capitalise on [his success in round five]. He allowed me to dictate and he, as the champion, didn\u2019t show any progress in the later rounds.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s about ring generalship, and he did not possess that. Even his trainer, [Ismael] Salas, was like: This is not how you enter the Hall of Fame.<\/p>\n

\u201cThat, right there, lets me know everything I should know. [But] maybe the [majority] decision makes people think otherwise.\u201d<\/p>\n

While hoping for a unification bout, Lopez may be forced to face WBA mandatory challenger Jack Catterall, who claimed his \u2018regular\u2019 belt with a unanimous decision victory over Shakhram Giyasov in May.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Teofimo Lopez has offered his thoughts on a rematch with Rolando Romero after dethroning \u2018Rolly\u2019 with a majority…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":753272,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[2560,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-753271","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-boxing","tag-boxing","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/753271","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=753271"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/753271\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/753272"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=753271"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=753271"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=753271"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}