Teofimo Lopez used some solid footwork and a career-high 62 jabs to neutralize Rolly Romero’s power, controlled distance and won a welterweight title by majority decision in the end.
He became a three division champion and proved elusive at times to scrape the victory, at other times he displayed heart.
He got the victory just about and some of his foot movement got him out of trouble in there at times to find a survival method in the fight in Vegas, basically.
Some notes on this;
- Career-high 62 jabs landed
- Out-landed Romero 124 to 73 but Rolly landed the most effective scoring shots, the hurtful damaging shots
- Averaged 44 punches per round and Lopez landed on the Rolly body at times effectively
- Superior skills on full display at times but he scraped it
- Lead hand paralyzed Romero’s offense at times
- Struggled to close the distance though on Rolly at times
- Used footwork to set offense
- Survived fifth-round scare with movement, solid feet there
- Some solid ring generalship
- Forced Romero onto back foot a couple of times
Rolly Romero could not fully plant those feet to secure that finishing knockout punch, he hurt Romero but he needed to get more in after that.
He did not have the foot movement to do it.
Nor the finishing instinct to execute, he might have retained the belt had he done so.
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