Photos: Sumio Yamada
Unbeaten Teofimo Lopez (15-0, 12 KOs) accomplished the first stage of his lightweight division “takeover” with a two round annihilation of IBF lightweight champion Richard Commey (29-3, 26 KOs) on Saturday night at Madison Square Garden in New York City. After a slow round one, Lopez floored Commey with a straight right hand that landed flush on the jaw. A reeling Commey beat the count, but Lopez jumped all over him and got the referee’s stoppage with a brutal follow-up barrage. Time was 1:13.
“I’m at a loss for words right now. This a dream come true,” said Teofimo. “{Commey} is a bad man. His shot could’ve done the same to me if he hit me with that shot…you all know who I want to fight next. 2020 is going to be a big year. ‘The Takeover’ has arrived, and you haven’t seen anything yet.”
WBA, WBC, WBO lightweight champion Vasyl Lomachenko, who was watching at ringside, stated “We want to ‘unificate’ all four titles…now he’s a world champion and now he’s in position to fight me.”
A showdown between Lopez and Lomachenko is in the works for April.
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Impressive
Loma will box rings around Lopez!
after coming off a mediocre decision win his last time out . Teofimo Lopez shows that he is indeed ready to fight Vasily Lomenchenko for his next fight. Looks like the year 2020 already has a huge fight lined up .
There’s a new sheriff in town and his name is FIMO!!!
You mean “sherife” ese homie?
VIVA USA!
Why is it that fighters, and their offspring, who fled third world hell holes for the relative paradise of the U.S. feel free and openly disrespect and show ingratitude towards the nation that gave them everything by praising the countries which gave them nothing!
How is it disrespectful where ever they came from? Especially now since we have a degenerate self centered foul mouthed jerk as president lol
Oracle ese, speek inglich ese.
You got your presidents mixed up, that was Ocrapper
Because they didn’t come here to be part of the community, they came here for the spoils that the European settlers built over centuries from nothing. Mexicans inherently hate all Anglo-Saxon people, and we’re not really too fond of them either. Their food is good and that is about it.
Settlers? You mean people that got free land and benefitted from slavery. Didn’t want to go there but so be it. Congrats to Lopez. Im sure he can Love his parents home country and the USA at the same time.
I blame your communist public school education for you being an illiterate moron who knows nothing about this country or world’s history.1st, there wasn’t any ‘free’ land because this was not a country when European settlers arrived. 2nd, only rich southerners benefited from free cotton and tobacco picking. White settlers in the other three quarters of the country tended their own crops, built their own homesteads with their bare hands, and fought off unprovoked attacks from savages that they’d never knew would have been there. Keep in mind dipshit, Mexicans only started coming to this country in hordes after World war II when our white men saved the planet, and created some of the best economic times this country has ever seen, even since. Also, it was the colonizing conquistadors who arrived to the western portion of America and took over indigenous Indians grounds. Those same people today are called Mexicans. There, I just did your eighth grade teachers job for her. It is very easy to shame white people when our communist media does it all the time, and they deprive low-iq cretins like you a proper education. Next, you will be telling me that Lomachenko comes from a long line of oppressors. Yeah, because ukrainians had black slaves too don’t you know (rolls eyes). Idiot commie
Ha ha! There’s the racist Chris smith that everyone loves to hate. I knew you would have something idiotic to say, again! Loma is a fraud and not the great white hype to hope him to be.
Your lies belong on 4chan not a boxing site. If you can fight then fight. If you have a white fighter you like, support him but why come here with your vile lies? There are plenty of white fighters for you to suck on. Why come here to spread your troll bullcrap?
Just because your country is on some sort of general turmoil doesn’t mean you abandon your heritage. America could go into recession and suffer turmoil as well and it is NO PARADISE by any stretch of the imagination unless you are one of the top 5%. Would you abandon your American heritage just because things were going bad?? I wouldn’t! I would represent as an American no matter what and so should others. I don’t begrudge others for having pride in their heritage. Only supremacists blinded by their own narrow world view and arrogance could even do such a thing
For those anti-whites and lomachenko haters who actually had the audacity to claim that he ducks fighters. He didn’t fight the now injured Haney because he already said he was going to fight the winner of tonight’s fight. He was at ringside and accepted Lopez’s challenge and now they will fight in the spring. Lomachenko will re-establish himself, even though to real aficionado’s he doesn’t have to, as the undisputed #1 p4p fighter in the world after he decisively schools the load up specialist Lopez. Lomachenko ain’t no Commey.
Don’t they have kkk boxing sites for you to spread your cancer to?
Nice win for Lopez. He’s going to get even better now. Loma fight is 50/50 but Lopez has a better chance of scoring a KO than does Loma but I can’t wait to see it. Lopez gots to get rid of that extremely feminine dancing he does after the fight.
Lopez gets hit hard in every fight….Easy night for Loma. I expect a shutout after the first round
Both Lopez and Commey were throwing bombs in the first round. Lopez got caught with a good right hand in the first round but took it well. He traded right hands with Commey in the second and his hit much harder and right on the button. The fight was over right there.
It was not a lucky punch because Lopez was feinting and had Commey expecting a body shot and looking down. I’m surprised he got up from that knockdown. His legs were gone and the stoppage was inevitable after that.
As Lopez stated in the post-fight interview, it could have been him on the receiving end. He prevailed but the way they were throwing hard shots, anything could have happened. On to Lomachenko for Lopez and back to the drawing board for Commey. That is the first time I have ever seen him seriously hurt and he was basically done after that shot.
Impressive win by Lopez. I don’t know if he’s ready for Loma now, but if Lomachenko gets hit with a punch like that, I don’t know if he can survive it. Lopez is the naturally bigger man, is quick, and has immense power in both hands. I really look forward to that fight early next year.
Loma vs. Lopez will be one of next year’s highlights.
Its interesting to see that most of the fraudulent fights are at higher weight classes. At least most of the light weight fights are still real – mainly because they make only a fraction of the profits high profile upper weight class fights make.
Lopez has speed and power but is technically nowhere near Loma. I expect the fight to be a careful chess match at first and then Loma taking over in the later rounds.
You’re right. As far as pound-for-pound and evenly matched fights, everything from 140 and below smokes everything from 147 and above in terms of quality fights. I don’t even watch heavyweight boxing anymore and won’t unless the very skilled Usyk it’s in the mix. Outside of the Ukrainian, who is #4 p4p, none of the other heavyweights are even in the top 50 p4p.
These fuck tards are ruining a good post about teo’s fight to discuss their personal racial hate. If you dont like that he said something about Honduras and reps USA too, then go tell him something and he’ll knock ur punk asses out too. That fuckin simple.
It’s always your people who bring up race and everybody knows it. Plus, we are all so weary of it. When you run out of that excuse then what are you going to use? Bad times are coming for your peeps.
My people??? Who exactly are my people bro. I’m american n makes no difference what color i am. Bad times are here for everyone. Black, white and browns are all getting murdered for race infused hatred.. stupid.. jus stupid. Especially since blacks whites and brown were ALL immigrants at one point..they seem to forget that
Tony, don’t waste your time. These guys will go forever with this since they know you can’t find them to discuss it face to face.
True story Whetto. Thank you for that. Chris was already pissing me off lol
Yo man, I’m trying to live in America and hand my kids off a place where they learn to be cool with everyone and then there’s dicks like you trying to set that shit on fire. Grow up kid and quit with the division shit. Yes, there are people who claim countries they’ve never lived in and it’s annoying but you know what, it’s nowhere near as annoying as some twit saying “bad times are coming for your peeps”.
You’d never say that to these people in person internet punk. Get it together and realize that you aren’t helping the world with that shit.
All you do is spread kkk cancer everywhere you go. You are a cancer
Lomachenko will give Lopez a boxing lesson, he will finish his career, the same way Carlos Zarate ended Alfonso Zamora’s career.
Loma is the complete package, in fact he is the perfect artist in the ring. Box the ears off the opposition whilst breaking up the body and soul. Until mother nature catches up I cant see him being beaten.
Just my view
Good post Gary, LOMA in many ways is the new Sugar Ray (Robinson,Leonard) or Roy Jones, once every 10-15 years we get a fighter that has a style that rules the boxing world. Not to mention they set a new level for everyone else to try to develop. This man has already set records that I believe it will be hard for anyone to attain again. When Leonard made Duran quit, the entire world could not believe it, and LOMA makes not one but 3 P4P fighters quit, one fighter was the #1 fighter on everyone list,RIGO!!!!And Loma who did not want to fight him, because Loma believed that he would hurt him badly made him say No Mas.
Tell that to Orlando Salido
Impressive ko. Now the question will be whether he can catch Lomachenko with one of those bombs he throws.
before the last fight, I was disappointrd in lopez. but after comey, if he touches loma, an artist in the ring, he will hurt him. hope to see the best of both.