Teofimo Lopez didn’t seem like a pound-for-pounder in his unanimous resolution victory over Jamaine Ortiz on Thursday in Las Vegas.
The bodily gifted 140-pound titleholder did sufficient to win however spent your entire combat chasing his elusive opponent however hardly ever catching him, which made for a comparatively weak efficiency and a awful combat.
To be truthful, as I wrote earlier in Weekend Evaluate, it’s troublesome to corral a foe who refuses to have interaction, significantly in the event that they’re as fast and succesful as Ortiz. Nevertheless, particular fighters discover a method. And Lopez didn’t.
So the place does that go away the Honorable Point out on our pound-for-pound record?
He’s getting a cross this time, that means he’ll keep the place he was in the intervening time. In any case, he received the combat. And, once more, Ortiz’s technique was a contributing consider his subpar efficiency.
We’re watching, nonetheless, He can’t proceed to look good in a single combat and so-so within the subsequent, which has been his sample the previous few years. If he’s ever going to maneuver towards the highest of this record, he’s going to need to exhibit consistency.
Subsequent pound-for-pounder up: No. 10 Devin Haney is scheduled to defend his WBC 140-pound title in opposition to Ryan Garcia on April 20 on pay-per-view from Las Vegas.
Right here’s what the record seems to be like in the meanwhile:
BOXING JUNKIEPOUND-FOR-POUND
Terence Crawford – No combat scheduled.
Naoya Inoue – Scheduled to defend his undisputed 122-pound championship in opposition to Luis Nery on Might 6 in Japan.
Oleksandr Usyk – Scheduled to face No. 9 Tyson Fury for the undisputed heavyweight championship on Might 18 in Saudi Arabia.
Dmitry Bivol – Scheduled to face No. 12 Artur Beterbiev for the undisputed 175-pound championship on June 1 in Saudi Arabia.
Juan Francisco Estrada – No combat scheduled.
Canelo Alvarez – No combat scheduled.
Jermell Charlo – No combat scheduled.
Gervonta Davis – No combat scheduled.
Tyson Fury – Scheduled to face No. 3 Oleksandr Usyk for the undisputed heavyweight championship on Might 18 in Saudi Arabia.
Devin Haney– Scheduled to defend his WBC 140-pound title in opposition to Ryan Garcia on April 20 in Las Vegas.
Jesse “Bam” Rodriguez – No combat scheduled.
Artur Beterbiev – Scheduled to face No. 4 Dmitry Bivol for the undisputed 175-pound championship on June 1 in Saudi Arabia.
Errol Spence Jr. – No combat scheduled.
Vasiliy Lomachenko – Scheduled to face George Kambosos Jr. for the vacant IBF 135-pound title Might 12 in Australia.
Shakur Stevenson– No combat scheduled.
Honorable point out (alphabetical order): David Benavidez (no combat scheduled); Jermall Charlo (no combat scheduled); Roman Gonzalez (no combat scheduled); Kazuto Ioka (no combat scheduled); Teofimo Lopez (no combat scheduled).
