Next month Teofimo Lopez attempts to become a three-division world champion as he steps up to welterweight and challenges for Rolando Romero’s WBA (Super) world title.
Now, Shakur Stevenson, who defeated Lopez back in January, has laid out his prediction for the fight.
Lopez has overcome two dominant champions when getting his hands on world titles, trumping the respective poster boys of both the lightweight and super-lightweight divisions when dethroning Vasyl Lomachenko and then Josh Taylor.
After three defences of his WBO super-lightweight world title, his reign came to an end at the beginning of the year when he was comfortably outboxed by Stevenson at Madison Square Garden, prompting a move up to 147lbs.
On his debut at the weight, Lopez is set to face Romero, who claimed his belt with a win over Ryan Garcia at Times Square in New York almost 14 months ago, but is yet to defend it since.
On his X account, Stevenson admitted that he’s backing Lopez to bounce back from their meeting and come out on top, but recognised that he was wrong when he previously picked Garcia to get the better of Romero last year.
“I talk s**t about Teo, but he for sure should win. Although, I did pick Ryan to beat Rolly, but I got more faith in Teo tbh!”
Romero vs Lopez is scheduled to take place at the T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas on Saturday, August 22, with the remainder of the bill expected to be announced in the coming days.
