Teofimo Lopez Questions Buyout on Jan. 5, Teases Top Rank Exit

Teofimo Lopez Fuels Exit Rumours with Daring Social Media Put up

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Following a back-and-forth with Devin Haney on X, Lopez directed a daring submit at his promoter Prime Rank: “What’s my Buyout once more? @trboxing I’m leaving this submit positively to! #SpeakMyTruth #MyWordIsMyBond.”

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Lopez was final seen within the ring, defeating Steve Claggett by unanimous choice. The Brooklyn native has been linked with fights towards Jaron Ennis and Devin Haney. It seems his subsequent struggle could possibly be away from Prime Rank if the WBO tremendous light-weight champion will get his means.

Bob Arum to Dan Rafael

“The Takeover” has had quite a few contract disputes with Prime Rank since 2016. Earlier in October, 2024, the previous unified light-weight champion despatched a letter to Prime Rank claiming that his contract was invalid. The brand new submit from Lopez will certainly not go down effectively with Bob Arum and his Prime Rank colleagues. Arum when talking to Dan Rafael in October addressed the Lopez state of affairs: “Teofimo generally acts like he has a screw unfastened,” stated the Prime Rank CEO.

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He continued: “You already know, I like the child, and I get together with him personally, however I can’t determine him out and he makes no logical sense. I imply, he signed the extension with us first with a Pedraza struggle, which didn’t occur, after which once we did one other struggle for him with Sandor Martin, he signed the identical extension, referring to the truth that the Pedraza struggle didn’t occur.”

Through the interview with Rafael, Arum appeared hopefull the connection with Lopez was repairable: “I don’t need to disparage anyone as a result of that doesn’t do any good, however ultimately sanity will take maintain and we’ll be doing a struggle for Teofimo,” Arum stated.

Regardless of that optimism, this newest outburst will seemingly not go down effectively at Prime Rank HQ.