When is juan manuel lopez next fight

Earlier today at pm, Tele 11, a news agency in Puerto Rico, posted select pictures when they published the story. Four months ago, the boxing community was shocked when they heard that Felix Verdejo allegedly murdered his mistress.

She was, reports said, pregnant with his baby. On August 17, Netflix released a documentary chronicling the details of the vicious assault Christy Martin suffered at the hands of her now ex husband. And the trend has legs, with fighters being in the news for the wrong reasons. Domestic violence seems to be a recurring story amongst combat athletes. We are waiting to hear back from them and we will update as the story plays out.

Connect with us. Lopez provided the minority Puerto Rican crowd the certified bragging rights to uphold until the next big Puerto Rican vs Mexican fight showdown. Rafael Marquez was forced by Nevada state officials to go to the hospital when he was on his way up to the conference room, so he was unfortunately not present during the post fight conference.

In the post fight conference JuanMa speaks to the media and answers questions from everything on who he will fight next, will he give Marquez a rematch, his thoughts on fighting Gamboa, and he is even called out by a bitter Mexican journalist who attacks him for not being able to knock Marquez out.

His first headline opportunity occurred in After five successful defenses, he rose to to challenge Steven Luevano in Boxing has a system that is subject to what television executives want.

They wanted me to do one or two fights to show I wasn't retired and to check if it was a possibility. There was talk of facing Yuriorkis Gamboa, but everything was up in the air. I am 36 years old, I know the business and decided it's better to dedicate myself to what I am doing. They felt there was one winner in that fight, so to protect Lopez, we didn't make that fight. Given that Lopez is Puerto Rican, he was a valuable commodity. It was believed back then that he would continue the lineage of standout prizefighters from the island following in the footsteps of Felix Trinidad and Miguel Cotto, who became legitimate ticket sellers and pay-per-view attractions who regularly played to packed houses on the East Coast.

It's clear that with Lopez there was a future franchise to protect. However, the veteran promoter points out, "That's not to say that Lopez didn't want that fight. But sometimes you've got to protect the fighter from what he wants. Meanwhile, Arum had struck a deal to co-promote the gifted Gamboa with Ahmet Oner, and with his influence with HBO, he was able to quickly get him on the network.

But like many of his Cuban colleagues, Gamboa simply didn't grasp the business side of professional boxing. It's clear that if the brain trust at Top Rank believed that Lopez would have defeated Gamboa, that they would have pulled the trigger on this bout back then. Perhaps if both boxers -- and in this case, specifically, Lopez -- could have kept their winning ways, this fight could have eventually been consummated as the interest and the value grew. Arum is often credited with the term "marinating" a fight, in other words, waiting as long as possible to make a certain fight to max out its financial worth.

It's something that frustrates a legion of fans who have no financial stake in the fighters they follow and would just like to see more palatable offerings from the sport. Maybe I used the word 'marinate' and so forth, but as far as I was concerned, it might very well be in my mind that that fight was never going to happen. Soon after the first defeat at the hands of Salido, Lopez was stopped once again by the resurgent Mexican two fights later in their rematch. And it was from that point on that his career declined quickly.

Once the next potential Puerto Rican star, he was then the B-side to the likes of the rising Mikey Garcia who brutally stopped him in four rounds in , and soon stoppage losses at the hands of Francisco Vargas TKO3 and Jesus Cuellar KO2 followed in Lopez then made the decision to retire from the sport, but as often is the case in this unforgiving business, he found himself having to return to the ring in October , where he shockingly defeated the younger Wilfredo Vasquez in what was a local grudge match in San Juan.

What's alarming is that all six of Lopez's defeats are of the stoppage variety. Gamboa remained undefeated through 23 fights until he faced Terence Crawford in the summer of for the vacant WBO lightweight title. After a quick early start, he was eventually worn down by the talented Crawford, who knocked him down four times and later won by 9th-round TKO. In truth, this fight came at a weight class that was simply not optimal for Gamboa who was really a natural featherweight, who could function well at junior lightweight, if need be , but it was his own curious decisions with his career that led him to this point.