Lopez Eyes Crawford “Free Fight”, Ennis Showdown, while faced defense of the title against Barboza Jr. In the ‘Fatal Fury’ tab

Teofimo Lopez says he wants to fight the winner of the fight on April 12. Between Jaron ‘Boots’ Ennis and Eimantas Stanionis or Terrence Crawford, if he wins on the second junction of May 2 against Arnold Barboz Jr. Lopez says he would fight Crawford for “free.” That sounds like despair.

WBO Light Welterweight Champion Lopez (21-1, 13 KOS) is already underway to fight IBF Welterweight Champ ‘Boots’ Ennis, but has not yet given up his dreams about the mega fight against Crawford. That match would bring a lot more money for the theater than causing ‘boots’ Ennis for his IBF or WBA belts.

Threat to Barboz

Theophimo cannot afford to look out of his defense title against the WBO mandatory Barboz Jr. (32-0, 11 ko) at the ‘Fatal Fury’ event in New York. If Teo loses that fight, it is questionable whether Turks Alalshikh will continue to want to use him as an opponent for ‘Ennis’ boots against whom he defends himself in October.

It would look bad if Lopez returned to that struggle from an unpleasant loss from Barboza. It would be better if the Turks use the Red-Hot Barboz Jr. as an opponent for boots. It would be interesting to know if the Turks have a clause about escape in his three -fighting contract with Lopez that allows him to throw him away if deleted by Barboz Jr.

In other words, the failure in case Theophimo takes place in this fight. If he was more popular, he could absorb a loss for Arnold without being a big job, but his supplies have fallen since 2020. So Teo is a fight with Barboz Jr. buried at the bottom of May 2, not armchairs.

The “free” goal of the struggle

“I said publicly, I’ll fight him for free. If I can’t get a guy, I just want to be in the ring with him,” said Teofimo Lopez Ring Magazine About the desire to fight Terrence Crawford after his defense of May 2 against Arnold Barboz Jr.

“In the near future, Jaron ‘Boots’ Ennis would like to fight the winners of boots and habitatis. So that would be great. I just target excellence.”