Teofimo Lopez Rules Out Rolly Romero Rematch, Targets Garcia-Benn Winner

He's obviously now called for a rematch. Do you have any interest in that? There's a lot of things you could do at 147, obviously. Any interest? No interest at all. Look, he's the champion at that time. He was the champion. And in our contract you have, you could do a lot of things in your contract. You could have rematch clauses. You could have rehydration clauses, as we've seen in the past with other fighters. So he didn't do that because he believed that he could have just beaten me. So him asking for a rematch, I don't think people want to see that. I think people now want to see Teofimo unify with all these other current champions right now. We have Ryan Garcia and Karuna Ben coming up in a couple weeks. I'll be there tuning in, and we'll see what happens. Okay. Which would be super exciting to fans, obviously. Are you eyeing the winner of Ben and Garcia? I mean, who isn't? No. I mean, absolutely. And who wouldn't want to watch that? Right? I think, absolutely. I think it would be great to see my competitors, my champions, that are in my weight class, really. Yeah. Right? And really put on a great show. Whoever wins, honestly, is a great, it's a win-win. Obviously, we would love to see Ryan Garcia do some exciting moments and have those exciting moments in that fight. But we'll just have to wait and see. But I'm definitely looking forward to the winner. And obviously, you and Ryan and all those guys have been, Devin, you've been linked together forever. Yes. So to finally do it would be awesome. Kind of to go back for just a second, I wanted to ask this. How do you feel like the power carried to 147? Do you feel like it was there? It was good? Yeah. No problems carrying the power? No problems carrying the power. I think it's just me following up on my shots. That's the only thing. But it's like, I'm going in there. That was my 147 welterweight debut against a world champion, against the heaviest puncher at welterweight division. I think people forget that. But, you know, now do I know the feelings of it? I'm only going to get better from this point forward. Really? What do you what do you what's different? What do you try and tweak next time? What do you maybe do differently when you get in the ring next time? What's the kind of now that you have some experience? Well, eight ounces, right? But this is a heavier weight class, right? But I can feel the punches now. I know what I'm going to be expecting moving forward on these fighters and in the next current champions. And then at the same time, I think also I could punch. It's there. Now I just got to be more selective on the power shots and when to throw. And I think that's where I'm going to be practicing a lot more on, not taking a step back from my combinations, but adding more to it. And like you said, Rolly, one of the biggest guys and hardest punchers at welterweight. So he's not just like an ordinary welterweight. Yeah. Right. Seriously. You mentioned Shakur. Talk to me about bouncing back because it's not especially for a guy like you. You hardly ever lose. You're one of the very best in the world, period. How about that? Coming back from a loss a couple of months later, here you are champion at 147. I know what better way to write. No, it's awesome. It's a great message, I think, too. It is, though. Honestly, I think that we all forget one thing is like it's not how you lose is how you come back from a loss. And I think even Rocky Balboa, right? And like those scenes right there, it drove me as a young kid and I'm living it. It's like I'm literally in the movie of Rocky right now in my life and this journey of boxing. I think it just resonates. It's all about not giving up, you know, no matter how many times you get knocked down, you got to keep getting up and fighting. Yeah. Is there is there anything to not that you'd ever want to lose, but, you know, even how it is with boxing and that, you know, that that undefeated record is always so protected. You have a loss and then it's almost like, hey, I could just go out there and fight. And if I lose, I don't want to lose. But whatever it is, what it is and to not not be obsessed with not losing, you know, I think it's more so of just making the best fights. If you want to fight the toughest guys, you know where you stand with them. Right. And where you align with. Are you the best fighter to like why is the MMA industry so successful? Yeah. The best fight, the best. Exactly. Prime example. And then so the same thing is what they captured it and they grabbed that from boxing. Yeah. So we need to also now it's a reminder with the MMA combat sport and bringing that back to us. I'm just that's why I'm focused on like truly, truly make boxing great again in my sense of like, let's make the best fight the best. Right. It feels like we're going in that direction, doesn't it? Yes. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, 147 is stacked right now. You got Ryan Garcia, Devin Haney, those two fighters right there that fought each other. They have history. Myself now in the mix. We all have history. And you have a guy from Australia. So it's like, yeah, there's so many ways to make this all work out.