The famously outspoken father of Teofimo Lopez has claimed that his son would beat Terence Crawford and that ‘his career will be over’ should the two meet.
Crawford is one of the best pound for pound fighters on the planet. He has been undisputed champion in two separate weight divisions, mostly recently welterweight.
That came after he dismissed the challenge of Errol Spence back in July last year with an impressive knockout win that saw him claim all four major titles.
He has since relinquished one and has not yet fought again. A rematch could be on the cards, and the man himself has also said that the biggest fight out there would be with Saul “Canelo’ Alvarez despite the obvious size difference between the two men.
Lopez meanwhile has defeated Vasyl Lomachenko to lift three of the major lightweight titles but then lost them to George Kambossos Jr. He has regained one of them and recently defended in an unimpressive performance against Jamaine Ortiz.
Now his father has been speaking of a potential fight with Crawford on the Punsh Drunk podcast.
“Crawford doesn’t want anything to do with my son right now. His career would be over. My son destroying him. A little dude, he walks around thinking like he’s King King.
“Losing to a guy like my son to him would be a disgrace, he wouldn’t be able to sleep at night, a nightmare, that’s why he doesn’t want to face us.
“It would be like him coming back from Vietnam seeing all that freaky s*** you see in those wars, he’ll wake in the night like ‘Teo!”
He then spoke about the fear Crawford has of losing.
“Crawford is scared to death, you know why? He doesn’t want to have that L, you know what I’m saying? It’s not because he’s scared of my son, but he knows my son has a good chance to give him that L and they don’t wanna lose.”