The best part of Teofimo Lopez's Saturday night came long after the fight for the WBO super lightweight world title at The Theater at Madison Square Garden was over. He'd just won a one-sided unanimous decision to take Josh Taylor's belts following a dark, brooding promotion.
NEW YORK, NEW YORK - JUNE 10: Teofimo Lopez celebrates after defeating Josh Taylor, during their WBO junior welterweight championship fight at The Hulu Theater at Madison Square Garden on June 10, 2023 in New York City. The best part of Teofimo Lopez’s Saturday night came long after the fight for the WBO super lightweight world title at The Theater at Madison Square Garden was over. He’d just won a one-sided unanimous decision to take Josh Taylor’s belts following a dark, brooding promotion.
After seeing that, anyone who knew him had to have legitimate concern for his well-being. It prompted a serious and not-at-all unreasonable question about whether he should have been allowed to fight at all. Had Taylor won the 12th rounds on the cards of Steve Gray and Joseph Pasquale, they would have had the fight a draw, the result would have been a majority draw and Taylor would have kept the belts. That would have been lunacy. Even Taylor understood.Lopez went through his post-fight interview in the ring and then gathered his team to pose for the cameras. He took the pictures, turned to his right, looking at someone in the distance, and beamed.This is a guy who is going through so much.
He seemed to snap back, at least most of the time, to being the happy, gregarious kid who took boxing by storm in both 2017 and 2018 when he was named the Yahoo Sports Prospect of the Year twice. As his father loudly predicted following the weigh-in, he badly outboxed Taylor, who had been the undisputed super lightweight champion before giving up three of the four belts following a controversial win over Jack Catterall last year.
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