February 15, 2023
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WBO orders Taylor-Teofimo

In the wake of the recent postponement of the Josh Taylor/Jack Catterall WBO voluntary title defense, the WBO World Championship Committee has now officially ordered the commencement of negotiations for the mandatory title defense obligation of WBO jr welterweight champion Josh Taylor and Teofimo Lopez, Jr. The camps are granted 10 days to reach an agreement or purse bid proceedings shall be conducted with a minimum bid of $150,000. Either party may request a purse bid at any time during the negotiation process. Top Rank was already working on the bout, but now there is a WBO deadline to get it done.

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  • They did Catterall wrong! Have to not fight for all that time waiting on the rematch and now this. I heard he was looking at Prograis now, hopefully they can put that together for him.
    If they both show up at their best, I would think Taylor would win this one, but it’s been a minute since we’ve seen either guy like that, so we’ll see what happens.

  • If this fight cones to fruition
    I gotta say it again…
    Teo is the most unappreciated fighter of the 4 Kings (Haney, Tank and KingRy)
    The guy has fought the mire legit fighters of the 4
    Exception to the Tank vs Pitbull which was great
    Teo just needs to be himself and stay focused, follow his gameplan and J hope his mental health issues are being treated

    • MRob3, there is truth in what you say. Even if Teo is not liked much by fans, which his loud mouth brought on himself sure, but he deserves more credibility.

    • I’m going to guess that you’ve eaten fast food your whole life. You need to start eating brain food, dude.

  • Teo is man with serious doubts on his mind about his capabilities and Taylor is too clever for him. If Taylor gets prepared as he was against Prograis and Ramirez, I don’t see Teo coming out to fight after the 10th round.

  • I see Scotland winning this one. To me, Lopez will never get any better with his dad as his coach.

  • $150,000? That’s not good money for this level of fighters surely, or am I missing something?

    • It’s just a minimum for a purse bid, it is low for a fight like this but even if, by some chance, they couldn’t agree to it and it did make it to purse bids, the winning big might be like 10x that number.

  • I don’t understand why Taylor is still wasting his time at 140. He can’t make the wait anymore and he has nothing else to achieve at that weight. He’s going to end up getting beat for being weight drained by a guy he would have poleaxed just a few years ago. Lopez would have got knocked out in eight rounds or less by a prime Taylor. Prograis knocks Lopez out in 6 or less today.

  • This fight will remind us of Bebe vs Butters.

    Lopez will not do well in this fight.

  • This fight should be made sooner than later. It’ll be exciting hopefully with Teo getting the upper hand for his power. Ever since Kambosis Jr made Teo looked silly, Teo looked more like a leftover in his last rather than a takeover.

  • You can’t fight using the Philly shell standing straight up. Teo needs to rid himself of that style or get a trainer who can teach him to fight at an angle. His dad has regressed him. He needs to get Joey Ganache back in his camp. Once that guys left he has looked terrible. Teo needs to learn how to be an effective aggressor or at the very least know how to set traps to set up his counter shots.

  • What? I thought that Catterall/Taylor was postponed the last time because of a Taylor foot injury?? Now Arum is saying the winner of Taylor/Teofimo could face Catterall. Good ‘ol Bob Arum.

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