López Eyes Crawford “Free Fight”, Ennis Showdown, while facing a defense of the title against Barboza Jr. on the ‘Fatal Fury’ card

Teofimo López says that he wants to fight against the winner of the April 12 fight between Ennis ‘boots’ Ennis and Eimantas Stanionis or Terence Crawford below. “free.” That sounds like despair.

The WBO Light López (21-1, 13 KOs) Welter Champion is already on his way to a fight against the Welter weighing champion of the FIB ‘Boots’ Ennis, but he has not yet renounced his dreams of the Mega fight against Crawford. That confrontation would generate much more money to theo than to challenge the ennis ‘boots’ for their IBF or AMB belts.

Barboza threat

Teofimo cannot afford to look beyond his defense of the title against the mandatory Barboza Jr. de la OMB (32-0, 11 kos) in the ‘Fatal Fury’ event of the Plaza on May 2 in New York City. If Teo loses that fight, it is questionable if Turki Alalshikh will still want to use it as an opponent for Ennis ‘boots’ to defend himself in October.

It would look bad if López went back to that fight against a shameful loss for Barboza. It would be better for Turki to use Barboza JR.-Hot red as the opponent for boots. It would be interesting to know if Turki has an escape clause in his three fighting contract with López that allows him to drift him if he is annihilated by Barboza Jr.

In other words, a failed in case theofimo is pieces in this fight. If it were more popular, it could absorb a loss against Arnold without being a big problem, but its stock has decreased since 2020. Therefore, the Teo with Barboza Jr. fight is buried in the lower part of the billboard on May 2 instead of heading.

“Free” fighting objective

“I have said publicly, I will fight him for free. If I can’t get the boy, I just want to be in the ring with him, ”said Teofimo López to Ring Magazine About wanting to fight Terence Crawford after his defense for the title of May 2 against Arnold Barboza Jr.

“I would like Ennis de Jaron ‘Boots’ in the near future.