Theofimo Lopez-Richardson Hitchins Deal Near May/June

The light welterweight champions Richardson Hitchins (19-0, 7 food) and Theofimo Lopez (21-1, 13 CO’s) are close to an agreement for a fight in May or June. It would be one of the Riyadh season events.

Next: Hitchins

Ring magazine reports WBO champion TheOFIMO (27) and IBF belt holder Hitchins are almost completed. This match has been discussed since the Brooklyn, New York, Lopez, signed a three-match agreement with Turki al-Sheikh.

It is an agreement that can end the Aofimo in disaster, with his career facing oblivion if he loses all three battles for Turki, which is predictable. The idea driven is that theofimo will walk the gauntlet Through these three fights:

1. Richardson Hitchins
2. Jaron ‘Boots’ Ennis – October
3. Ryan Garcia vs. Devin Haney – *Losers Bracket

If theofimo protrudes through the three fights without Turki pulling the plug to him, it is predictable that he will be 0-3, on his way to the scrap heap career. What will be interesting is to see which promoter is eager to sign theofimo after completing these three fights. He would still be popular in a Adrien Broner-type From way, but he would be seen as washed by hardcore boxing fans.

Theofimo would still be interested in his fighting with his trash talk, but as far as he beat any of the murderers at 140, he would be useless. You couldn’t bring the Teo with guys like Ernesto Mercado, Barboza, Catterall or Jose ‘Rayo’ Valenzuela and expect him to be the victor.

Lopez is now largely regarded as a one-hit wonder, known for his victory over an injured, smaller and much older Vasily Lomachenko in 2020. Everything that theofimo has done since then was bad.

Lopez looked something awful in five of the six fights he had had since the Loma collision, and received some decisions against Sandor Martin and Jamaine Ortiz. Perhaps the most unfriendly cut that theofimo by George Kambosos jr. Has been beaten. The defeat put things in perspective on how much damage Lomachenko did to the New Yorker.

Some fans feel that Lomachenko has ruined theofimo with the punishment he performed in that battle. Although Teo won with a narrow decision, Lomachenko has gained his pound of flesh and has since made him look like a shell from his former self in fighting.

The mandatory evading

The World Boxing Organization recently ordered theOFIMO to defend against the winner of the 14th match between #1 Arnold Barboza jr. And #2 Jack Catterall. Interestingly, Teo has never defended his WBO 140 Light Welterweight title since winning a faded, Shoporn Josh Taylor on June 10, 2023.

However, with Lopez fighting Hitchins in a unification fight involving their two belts, The Aofimo can bypass the WBO’s order to defend against Barboza JR-Catterall winner.

This is a good thing for Teo, because he will probably lose one of the fighters, and it will send his career on his way, which is likely to do this after completing his three-match agreement with Turki.

He evaded a defeat against that man, but he still has a nightmare three-game ravine that will make him one of the untouchable class of fighters. Theofimo’s career will plow in like a submarine she has reached Pressing depths in the sea.