A note to Fight Freaks Unite readers: I created Fight Freaks Unite in January 2021 and eight months later it also became available for paid subscriptions for additional content — and as a way to help keep this newsletter going and for readers to support independent journalism. If you haven’t upgraded to a paid subscription please consider it. If you have already, I truly appreciate it! Also, consider a gift subscription for the Fight Freak in your life.
Subscribe to the YouTube channel
Subscribe to DAZN's Ultimate Plan
Teofimo Lopez, coming off a one-sided defeat, rebounded in a big way on Saturday night.
“The Takeover” won a majority decision against Rolando Romero, his close friend, to win the WBA welterweight title and become a three-division titleholder in the main event of a PBC pay-per-view card on DAZN at T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas.
Other than a rough fifth round in which he suffered a cut, was rocked and nearly knocked down, Lopez seemed to otherwise dominate.
The scorecards showed a different story, however, with judge Tim Cheatham scoring it 116-112 and Max DeLuca 115-113 while Glenn Feldman had it 114-114. Fight Freaks Unite had it 119-109 for Lopez, the former lineal/WBO junior welterweight champion and former lineal/unified lightweight champion.
There was little action but Lopez was effective with his jab and threw and landed many more punches than Romero, who rarely put combinations together and appeared to sleepwalk through long stretches of the fight.
It was a big turnaround from Lopez’s last fight on Jan. 31 in New York, where Shakur Stevenson routed him in a non-competitive fight to take his junior welterweight crown.
Comments
Nothing yet. Say the first thing.
Sign in to join the conversation.