After four months of waiting, the Honduran blood fighter Teófimo López will climb into the ring in front of the Australian George Kambosos to defend the crown of the unified lightweight in boxing.
This Friday it was confirmed that Lopez i Cambodians they signed contracts for the battle that will define whether the king of this category will continue to be the one born in Brooklyn or whether there will be a new undisputed champion.
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The fight will take place on October 4 at Hulu Theater from New York to Madison Square Gardison as confirmed by ESPN with the director of operations of Triller, organizer of the fight, Thorsten Meier.
The fight was scheduled for October 5, but was moved because there is a possibility of a wildcard tie game between the New York Yankees and Boston Red Sox in New York for the MLB.
In this way, the López-Kambosos it will be held on a Monday, although big boxing fights usually take place on Saturdays.
– It underwent four date changes –
In this way, the fight again undergoes a new change of date, as it was initially going to be played on June 5 but was officially set for June 19.
However, Teófimo gave positive to ‘ covid-19, Moving the event for August 14, being impossible to carry out after lack of preparation of the Honduran and decided to move until October 5 before it was changed for a day before.
This is how the battle between Lopez, 24 years old (16-0, 12 KOs), and Kambosos 28 years old (19-0, 10 KOs), was planned for October 5, being the first fight of Teófimo since he won the undisputed championship on October 17 to the Ukrainian Vasiliy Lomachenko.