Comments Thread For: Teofimo Lopez Rails Against ESPN Commentators, Accuses Top Rank of Preferring Black Fighters

[Boxfan83]

"Black people are very athletic, nobody can beat them" lmfao way to backtrack

He sounded like a cuck. 0 respect for Senior back tracking with his tail between his legs.

[rckdees]

Bradley is a piece of $?!t because he’s a company man and ward is following in his footsteps

[Ry92]

Puerto Ricans are Yella Ninjas common fact they just got real native blood in them. Also hmm long rant though not in the wrong on comments on ward or Bradley but went a little to far with the top tank comment cause their #1 promotion is a co promotion with Fury. Whom is fully white in particular Irish

[Boxing Logic]

Why are they apologizing when they didn't do anything wrong? I love black people and black is not an insult. He just said as a matter of fact he thought Top Rank was favoring black fighters over him, due to demographic marketing. He didnt say anything negative about black people.

The media just wants to divide whites, blacks, hispanics. They always fan baiting with these manufactured story lines. Andre, Tim, Teofimo, Shakur and all them probably planned this "story" with Bob Arum like a month ago, lol, and hired someone in Hollywood to write the full script, lol. Just saying. I love white people, black people, hispanics, it dont matter. The media is the problem, not any of them.

[Boxing Logic]

I'm still not getting it. What is racist about what Lopez said? If you think about it, he's accusing ESPN/TR to be racist towards Latinos and they're favoring blacks.

Don't PBC fighters like Spence say the same like TR favoring Latinos over blacks? Crawford even sued Arum.

This is confusing.

Agreed.

Teo should sue Bob for favoring blacks over latinos.

Loma should sue Bob for favoring latinos over whites, and say his fight vs Teofimo was close but the judges scored it wide for Teofimo.

Dmitry Bivol should sue his promoter for favoring blacks, latinos, and whites over Indio Californian's.

[tritium_arma]

Well he's right about Ward and Bradley being company shills.

[Boricua181]

Wow. So many places he can go after losing to Taylor. Matchroom will want him for saying they rigged the Kambosos fight against him and PBC surely also... don't.. like... black fighters?

Dude is a total nut job and a clown.
Teofimo Lopez may soon be making an official apology. If not, the anger over the things the former lightweight champ said when speaking with Punsh Drunk Boxing will only intensify. As well as the sense of shock and outrage. Lopez, who will fight Josh Taylor in a WBO 140 pound title fight on June 10 in New York, came across as racist and a whole lot of other bad things during the heated interview.

Lopez verbally attacked ESPN commentators, former champions Andre Ward and Tim Bradley, while Lopez also spoke of how he loves the fact that “in my sport, I can kill a guy and get away with it, so it’s cool.” Lopez really must be in a pretty bad place right now to be coming out with the garbage he came out with in the interview. “One think I love about my sport, I can kill a guy and get away with it, so it’s cool,” Lopez began. “Commentators are the ones that convince everybody if someone else is winning. Watch the George Kambosos fight without the commentators, watch my last fight (against Sandor Martin, Lopez winning a close decision) without the commentators and you will see the results. At the fighter meeting, I dissed Andre Ward and Timothy Bradley in front of ESPN’s production and all of them, for all their affiliation and corruption that they do. And what happened? I put more weight on my back. When I slipped with the first knockdown they called, what did Bradley say right away? ‘He’s hurt, he’s hurt.’ “So I don’t sugar-coat ****. All these motha f****a ride and suck d**k. And just to put it more on this fight, this is my last fight on ESPN. This is why this fight means everything. If they want the black fighters, they can keep them.”

Again, look out for an official apology from Lopez soon. This is just disgusting talk from a world class fighter, or from any fighter – from any person. Lopez is a role-model to so many young people and they will hear about the awful things he has said. You can bet now that defending champ Taylor will be the man the fans root for on June 10. Lopez has not come across as racist before, but he sure does in this interview. While the talk of “getting away with killing” another human being, that basically doesn’t deserve comment on. Shame on Lopez here. Big time.

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Teofimo Lopez Sr., and Jr., are as ******, and as mentally disturbed as they come. I don't see how their way of thinking, or talking doesn't get them in some serious legal, physical, or violent incident'(s). These two have been going down hill, for a couple of year's now, and there's no way they can be rehabilitated.

[megas30]

People should cut him some slack. He OBVIOUSLY has a MENTAL disorder. Seems ok to kick someone on the ground for a mental handicap now a days. Alcohol, fentanyl, crack, coke, eating disorders & heroin problems is more acceptable to todays humans and gets sympathy.
Ill also note that if he was a WOMAN he would get sympathy stating “ shes under tremendous stress” or some other thing but if its a MAN, FOOK HIM! He's an narcissist or what wver they call a masculine man.

Then he shouldn't be fighting or doing public speaking and go seek help.

[ShoulderRoll]

Teofimo simply needs to stop sucking. That has nothing to do with race.

He was the Prospect of the Year at one point so he has had the promotional hype machine behind him. After the Lomachenko fight it looked like he was living up to his potential but he has been terribly disappointing ever since then.

[GBP4LIFE]

Let em know Teo!!!

Don’t bow down to none of these mfers!!!