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Boxing

Teofimo Lopez serious about fight with pound-for-pound star

Teofimo Lopez serious about fight with pound-for-pound starDAZN
The WBO champion fights tonight.

Teofimo Lopez has backed up his original claims that he wants to fight Terence Crawford once he is past Jamaine Ortiz.

The WBO super lightweight fighter comes up against Ortiz tonight (live on ESPN+ in the US) but had already made it clear that he was looking to test himself against welterweight king Crawford.

"If you look at my track record, everything that I talk about, I walk it as well. We don't just talk the talk to amp something up, we want to walk the walk," Lopez told Sky Sports.

"And I just had to remind him I'm the biggest cat in the world, absolutely and because of that we face fighters, great champions and I look forward to facing a fighter like him after this fight [against Jamaine Ortiz] however that pursues itself."

He continued: "This is not a publicity stunt here. I think that if you look at my record and everything it shows, it shows that I really choose to face the best.

"Because that's what 'The Takeover' is. What would I be if I didn't do these things? Who would I be if I didn't face the best? That is the only way I become greater."

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