With Teofimo Lopez making ready for his subsequent outing in opposition to Jamaine Ortiz, he talks to Marcos Villegas of Struggle Hub TV about his calling out of Terence Crawford, why he says he fights handicapped boxers, and why he thinks a battle between them is even greater than the Spence battle. Take a look at a few of what Lopez needed to say beneath.
Lopez on calling out Crawford
“Aye, Crawford, bro, I do know you known as me a faux ninja. It’s cool, bro. It’s cool, man. No downside. I brush that shit off like I do with all the things else that they executed with my profession. However I’m gonna be trustworthy with you man, I do know that you just a terrific fighter, I’m a terrific fighter. You want powerful competitors and so do I. Shoot, I will not be black however I obtained it in me.
“With that being mentioned, it’s like everytime you executed with that contract and when you keep at 147, then yeah man, I feel we make more cash than you made with Spence. Me and also you, afterwards, we exit separate methods, bro.
“I’m only a fighter that likes to battle. I simply love challenges and I do know the most effective man that may most likely give me the most effective problem might be Crawford.”
On being one of many only a few individuals calling out Crawford
“As a result of there’s nobody that has confidence. Everyone’s simply cocky and residing off this facade, this phantasm of regardless of the heck it’s…I’m not in that 3D world, I’m in like 8D. I’m in 8D world, I don’t even assume the individuals even know what that’s but.”
On saying Crawford beat handicapped fighters
“I’m simply saying information, that’s not even disrespectful. That’s simply information. You fought Jose Benavidez who had a shot knee, and had just a little bit troublesome time with him to start with of the rounds making an attempt to determine him out.
“When it got here to Kell Brook…he fought a man that had a damaged eye socket…Errol Spence, his current one, and now Errol Spence is coming again saying the explanation why he couldn’t cease these jabs and hook — he ought to cease proper there — however one other man that had a automobile accident and has by no means been the identical since that accident.”
