It’s official. The PPV clash between undisputed lightweight champion Teofimo Lopez (16-0, 12 KOs) and mandatory challenger George Kambosos Jr (19-0, 10 KOs) has been pushed back another 12 days to October 16 and the event will move across town from the Hulu Theater at Madison Square Garden in Manhattan to the Barclays Center in Brooklyn.
It also looks the Lopez-Kambosos undercard is now set. In the co-feature, super lightweights Petros Ananyan (15-2-2, 7 KOs) and Daniel Gonzalez (20-2-1, 7 KOs) will meet in a ten rounder.
And in a pair of eight round affairs, unbeaten super welterweight Jose Roman (11-0, 5 KOs) faces fellow unbeaten Cesar Francis (8-0, 6 Kos), and opening the PPV telecast, super lightweights Will Madera (16-1-3, 9 KOs) tangles with Jamshidbek Najmitdinov (17-1, 14 KOs).
The $49.99 Lopez-Kambosos PPV will be coming seven days after the Fury-Wilder 3 PPV and will be going head-to-head with a DAZN stream featuring Mikey Garcia vs. Sandor Martin.
$50 for this? Cue laugh track…
While I won’t be buying this event I laugh because the same people that poo poo this are some of the same folks that spent their hard earned money on Jake or Logan Paul’s exhibitions!!!
Makes perfect sense having this fight on a Saturday rather than head to head with Monday Night Football.
Good call…
Or not if people are using illegal Enhancing drugs and the extra day allows them to flush it out of their system completely
What a crappy card.
keep your money lopez is not all that
He was enough to beat Lomachenko
Teo has lost all the momentum he had after beating Loma. Somebody should know to make this fight free so he can showcase his talents. If this truly is the takeover then he has time to build. No rush to cash out PPV. Teo vs Loma was suspenseful but not really a fight will talk about in the future. He needs tank or fight on free TV to reach the masses.
— Rivals Fury/Wilder as Flakiest Promotion of the Year.
FPY, who you got?
This smacks of Triller biting off more than it could chew. I have seen reports that its purse bid was about twice the next highest bid.
Next, selecting a Monday date for what should be a major headline bout with a unified (if not undisputed) champion in a deep division is a bad idea even if outside of NFL season.
Further, Triller does not have a stable of prospects under promotional contract, unlike PBC, Matchroom, Top Rank, Golden Boy, or others, to fill out an entertaining card.
No disrespect to Kambosos, but he, as a mandatory, is a less appealing fight than seeing one of several other possible match ups with Teofimo that could at least be made in the minds of fans (unification with Haney, or against Tank Davis, for example).
I don’t fault Teofimo for taking more money if Triller was willing to offer it because he, like all fighters, has a limited time to maximize earnings. However, the way Triller has had missteps in getting this fight together, plus a card that – at least according to the commenters on this site – is not worth the PPV price tag, might make other top fighters take a pass on Triller until it demonstrates its capabilities to put on a great card.
Can it just be pushed back to the 12th of never, boring. Doesn’t matter what date they mate, fight won’t make money
Triller will be gone within a matter of months. Boxing promotion is a niche business controlled by a few. Guys like 50 Cent and Jay-Z thought they could promote in boxing too. Didn’t work out for them. I bet Teo is wishing he took Bob up on his offer rather than going with Triller for this fight.
Kambosis will win this. He is a good all action fighter who will be too much for Teo.
Another $50 for PPS (Pay-Per-Screw) that I will NOT be spending.