{"id":823056,"date":"2026-08-23T10:52:09","date_gmt":"2026-08-23T10:52:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/823056\/"},"modified":"2026-08-23T10:52:09","modified_gmt":"2026-08-23T10:52:09","slug":"teofimo-lopez-rallies-from-defeat-and-crisis-takes-belt-from-rolly-romero","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/823056\/","title":{"rendered":"Teofimo Lopez rallies from defeat and crisis, takes belt from Rolly Romero"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text-sm text-zinc-400 font-medium leading-relaxed line-clamp-3 group-hover:text-zinc-200 hover:transition-colors hover:duration-150\">Is Najee Lopez ready to go from Fight of the Year contender to world-title contender?<\/p>\n<p>The unbeaten light heavyweight is back on August 29, when Najee Lopez (16-0, 13 KOs) takes on fellow unbeaten contender Juan Carrillo (15-0, 11 KOs) in a huge clash at the Galen Center in Los Angeles. Lopez is currently ranked No. 4 by the WBA, while Carrillo sits at No. 9.<\/p>\n<p>After Lopez\u2019s all-action battle with Manuel Gallegos, the expectations have changed. Now he faces another undefeated fighter, with Carrillo warning that he intends to emerge as the division\u2019s next star.<\/p>\n<p>We break down Najee\u2019s rise, what Carrillo brings to the fight, and whether victory on August 29 could move Lopez closer to a shot at the light-heavyweight crown.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Is Najee Lopez ready to go from Fight of the Year contender to world-title contender? The unbeaten light&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":823057,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[64421,291956,348846,99,348847],"class_list":["post-823056","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-boxing-news","tag-boxingscene","tag-rolando-romero","tag-sports","tag-teofimo-lopez"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/823056","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=823056"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/823056\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/823057"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=823056"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=823056"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=823056"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}