Best Coach 2020 Teofimo Lopez Sr. gave
interview for a news portal from the USA, commenting on the unconvincing performance of his son, the former absolute lightweight champion (up to 61.2 kg), and now super lightweight (up to 63.5 kg) Teofimo Lopez (18-1, 13 KOs) against the Spaniard Sandor Martin ( 40-3, 13 KOs), as well as speaking rudely about the recent fight of the half-champion of the light division of the American Gervonta Davis (28-0, 26 KOs) against the second featherweight champion (up to 59 kg) Hector Luis Garcia (16-1, 10 KOs) .
Did you have a chance to see Gervonta Davis vs Garcia?
“That shit was all fucking dog shit. My son beat up the guy who retired Mikey Garcia. Everyone’s like “Theo didn’t look good” or “Theo should have knocked him out.” You can’t knock out a dude who isn’t trying to fight. It was not possible. Usually my son calculates you by the second or third round. I used to tell my son all the time, “Every time you punch this dude in the body, he just runs away.” The attack simply stopped immediately after hitting the body. We needed to shift, we needed to start throwing the left hook. This is what we do and nobody does it in boxing. For some reason, he didn’t. He understands this. I rewatched the fight just 3 days ago. Brother, he looked good, was accurate, not tired.
“But I’m asking you, did you see Gervonta Davis win over Hector Garcia?
“But that’s where I’m going. I’m taking them there because they’re talking nonsense about other guys when they themselves are fighting fucking nonames. I don’t even know what the dude was! Every time Tank fights, I don’t know who his opponents are. Understand?
– Got you.
“And that win over Rolly (Rolando Romero)… Brother, that shit was like… Rolly wasn’t a champion. They make it look like Gervonta beat Floyd Mayweather. Do you know what I mean.
Will you give Gervonta credit if he beats Ryan Garcia?
Brother, not really. Why is he after Ryan? You’re chasing money, why do you need Ryan? Ryan isn’t even a world champion. Here we want Prograis. But we won’t get the money we want for him. We won’t even make a million dollars. Because this fight will be from another network. He won’t be on ESPN. So we won’t get our lows. And people don’t know our minimums. We have a three-fight contract with Top Rank and people don’t know the numbers and I can’t divulge them.
Davis’ performance was terrible. Because first of all he fought a dude who brought out the best in him when that fucking fight broke down. Did you see Tank take two steps back and start looking at the fight in the hall? And the f***ing referee stopped that shit for about 6 minutes. He is f***ing. If I were there, I’d jump into that fucking ring. They would probably disqualify me. And my son too, because I would have jumped out there and given the fuckin’ referee a f***. Don’t *** yourself! When these fights f*cking break and this shit stops for 6 minutes so Tank can get his fucking breath back and the rest of the shit?
Prograis is bluffing, and I am from a different test. Lopez put forward a very strange theory
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I noticed confession doesn’t mean shit anymore. People are already on the *** on the belt. Who the fuck are they calling Tank a three-time world champion? They pull the “regular” belts there. Understand? This is madness. The only guy he beat for the title was Pedraza. Pedraza was fucking selling hot dogs in Puerto Rico when they fucking picked this dude. And Pedraza was 20 kg more. These are all Floyd’s ideas, because he is a good businessman.
“When Pedraza fought Tank, he was at his peak, he was a really good fighter, you have to give him credit.
– When he fought, he had to lose 20 kg, brother. The f*cking dude was selling hot dogs and Floyd knew it. It wasn’t the same Pedraza. He didn’t even fight right-handed the whole fight when in all his good fights he beat dudes right-handed. I even told this to the coach. I said, “Why the **** are you left-handed for such a big fight?”
“Do you think your son will one day get along with Gervonta Davis?”
“Brother, I don’t see this shit anytime soon. I can see that fucking Tank is going to be really shocked. He can probably do it for money, but I don’t see it anytime soon. The tank is trying to earn as much money as possible by fighting nonames. That’s exactly what he did. Of the young dudes, my son is the only one who has taken big fights. And we still want big fights. That’s all I have to say. A lot of people are talking about Sandor Martin… Look, if my son had been headhunting the whole fight, he would have lost. And that was the mistake that Mikey Garcia made. He hunted for the head the whole fight. Complicated dude. He hits and hits, hits and hits. Understand? And one hit won’t let you win the fight. It was crazy how they wanted to take the win from us.
What I’m trying to say is that Tank needs to raise the level of the opposition. Why isn’t everyone talking about why this fighter keeps fighting fucking guys no one knows. Nobody says anything about it. The tank is in its current positions because of the other players around it. We did this shit ourselves. It was just me and my son, and no one else. We didn’t have f***ing Floyd, Leonard (Ellerbee), nobody. We did this shit ourselves.
Robert Garcia on Lopez’s future. How will Teofimo Sr. react to this?