Lopez Eyes Crawford “Free Fight”, Ennis Showdown, while facing the defense of the title against Barboza Jr. in the “Fatal Fury” card

Teofimo Lopez says he wants to fight the winner of the April 12 fight between Jaron ‘Boots’ Ennis and Eimantas Stanionis or Terence Crawford then if he won his May 2 against Arnold Barboza Jr. Lopez said he would fight against Crawford for “free.” It looks like despair.

WBO Light Welter weight champion (21-1, 13 KOS) is already underway for a fight against the Welter Ibf “ boots ” Ennis weight champion, but he has still not abandoned his dreams of mega-combat against Crawford. This match would bring back much more money for Teo than to challenge the “boots” Ennis for its belts IBF or WBA.

Threat of Barboza

Teofimo cannot afford to look beyond his defense of the title against WBO compulsory Barboza Jr. (32-0, 11 KB) during the “Fatal Fury” event in Square in New York. If Teo loses this fight, it is doubtful if Turki Alshikh will always want to use it as an opponent for “boots” in defending in October.

It would seem bad if Lopez fell back in this fight with an embarrassing loss against Barboza. It would be preferable for Turki to use the Barboza Jr. heated red as an opponent for boots. It would be interesting to know if Turki has an escape clause on his contract with three fights with Lopez which allows him to throw him drift if he is destroyed by Barboza Jr.

In other words, a failure in case Teofimo goes to pieces in this fight. If it were more popular, he could absorb a loss against Arnold without it being a big problem, but his stock has dropped since 2020. Consequently, Teo’s fight with Barboza Jr. is buried at the bottom of May 2 Undercard rather than the headliner.

“Free” combat objective

“I said publicly, I will fight it for free. If I can’t have the guy, I just want to be in the ring with him, “said Teofimo Lopez Ring Magazine When you want to fight Terence Crawford after defense of the May 2 title against Arnold Barboza Jr.

“I would like Jaron” boots “ennis in the near future. (I want) to fight the winner of Boots and Stanionis. So it would be great. I’m just aiming for excellence.