Teofimo Lopez sits down with Mike Coppinger to speak about his upcoming battle in opposition to Arnold Barboza and what he’s trying to do along with his profession going ahead. Lopez suggests a win over Barboza is a foregone conclusion and he appears to be like to tackle even larger fights going ahead. Right here’s a few of what he needed to say under.
On what he’s trying to show in opposition to Arnold Barboza
“What I’m trying to show come Could 2nd, that I’m one of the best fighter. I’m one of the best fighter in my weight class, I’ve efficiently defended my world titles twice already in that weight class and I stay up for defending it a 3rd time.”
On turning up in his finest type when folks rely him out like in his battle in opposition to Josh Taylor
“I handled him like an newbie. No disrespect, he’s a great fighter, nice fighter, however I simply know and the identical factor goes to occur to Arnold Barboza. I simply know. It’s not about expertise, it’s only a feeling.”
On what the plan is him going ahead beneath his new multi-fight cope with Turki Alalshikh
“I all the time like going after the most important challenges and the giants of the brand new divisions and of this world of boxing. So whoever you suppose is one of the best, we’d like to face. Anybody that’s at ‘47, anybody that’s at ‘54, anybody that’s at ‘40. We’re at that degree the place we need to face everyone. I feel we carry a whole lot of hype and a whole lot of pleasure to the game.
“All people has to do their job, everyone has to win, and so long as all these issues occur they usually go to plan, one of the best and one of the best are going to battle — it’s virtually like a event — and we’ll see one another, one of the best combating one of the best, whoever is the final man standing, the start of subsequent 12 months.”
