Teofimo Lopez | ||||||||||||||||||
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 Lopez in 2019 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Born | Teófimo Andrés López Rivera July 30, 1997 Brooklyn, New York, U.S. | |||||||||||||||||
| Other names | The Takeover | |||||||||||||||||
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| Height | 5 ft 8 in (173 cm)[1] | |||||||||||||||||
| Reach | 68+1⁄2 in (174 cm)[1] | |||||||||||||||||
| Stance | Orthodox | |||||||||||||||||
| Boxing record | ||||||||||||||||||
| Total fights | 22 | |||||||||||||||||
| Wins | 21 | |||||||||||||||||
| Wins by KO | 13 | |||||||||||||||||
| Losses | 1 | |||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Teófimo Andrés López Rivera[2] (born July 30, 1997) is an American professional boxer. He has held multiple world championships in two weight classes, including the World Boxing Organization (WBO) and Ring magazine light welterweight titles since 2023; previously he held the unified World Boxing Association (WBA) (Super version), International Boxing Federation (IBF), WBO, and Ring lightweight titles between 2019 and 2021. Lopez has also held the lineal championship at lightweight and light welterweight.
As an amateur, he represented Honduras at the 2016 Summer Olympics.
As of June 2023, Lopez is ranked as the world's best active light welterweight by The Ring magazine[3] and the Transnational Boxing Rankings Board,[4] and second by ESPN.[5]
- ^ a b DAZN Boxing tale of the tape prior to the George Kambosos Jr. fight.
- ^ Cite error: The named reference
biowas invoked but never defined (see the help page). - ^ "Junior Welterweight ratings". The Ring. Retrieved June 10, 2023.
- ^ "TBRB rankings". Transnational Boxing Rankings Board. Retrieved June 10, 2023.
- ^ "Divisional rankings -- The best top 10 fighters per division". ESPN.com. Retrieved June 10, 2023.