{"id":4788,"date":"2023-01-05T18:56:00","date_gmt":"2023-01-05T18:56:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/atswins.ai\/blog\/regis-prograis-on-teofimo-lopez-mentally-hes-not-there\/"},"modified":"2023-01-05T18:56:00","modified_gmt":"2023-01-05T18:56:00","slug":"regis-prograis-on-teofimo-lopez-mentally-hes-not-there","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/atswins.ai\/blog\/regis-prograis-on-teofimo-lopez-mentally-hes-not-there\/","title":{"rendered":"Regis Prograis on Teofimo Lopez: &#8216;Mentally, he&#8217;s not there&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> [ad_1]<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Along <strong>Jim Calfa:<\/strong> Regis Prograis said of Teofimo Lopez:<em><strong>mental breakdown<\/strong><\/em>&#8221; At this stage in his career, he believes he has no intention of fighting him.<\/p>\n<p>Teofimo&#8217;s recent performance against Thunder Martin on December 10th was as bad as his disappointing effort in the 2021 loss to George Kambosos Jr.<\/p>\n<p>If Top Rank doesn&#8217;t care about the apparent deterioration in former unified lightweight champion Teofimo&#8217;s game, it should care because it&#8217;s annoying.<\/p>\n<p>Teofimo is still young at the age of 25, but his appearance is bad enough to sound a warning bell at Top Rank Headquarters.<\/p>\n<p>WBA light welterweight champion Prograis (28-1, 24 KOs) was beaten by Teofimo (18-1, 13 KOs) when his father, Teofimo Sr, said he wanted to fight him in April. , I feel that I just spoke without taking it seriously.  Prograis does not believe that this is happening.<\/p>\n<p>Bob Arum, the top-ranked promoter who promotes Teofimo, said last week that if he next beats Vasyl Lomachenko, he would want Theo and Devin Haney at 140.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;If Haney beats Lomachenko, <em><strong>Let Haney fight Teofimo in a non-title match,<\/strong><\/em>&#8221; Bob Arum told Sky Sports News.<\/p>\n<p>Aram didn&#8217;t say who he wanted Teofimo to fight while he waited for the Haney-Lomachenko fight to clear.<\/p>\n<p>Theo has made it clear that he is not interested in fighting an undefeated and ranked 140-pound competitor, so it will not be Arnold Barbosa Jr. that Teofimo will fight.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;<em><strong>Mentally, he&#8217;s broken. Mentally, he&#8217;s not there.<\/strong><\/em>Regis Prograis told iD Boxing about Teofimo Lopez.  &#8220;I like Theo. I don&#8217;t mean to speak ill of him, but if he fights me, I&#8217;m going to hurt him.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I keep saying the same thing. If I fight Theo, <strong><em>hurt theo<\/em><\/strong>He can have a flash. he can have speed he can have it all. But if I hurt Theo, I feel like he&#8217;s not mentally strong.<\/p>\n<div class=\"perfmatters-lazy-youtube\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/mp4l0ZKEDLw\" data-id=\"mp4l0ZKEDLw\" data-query=\"start=451&amp;feature=oembed\" onclick=\"perfmattersLazyLoadYouTube(this);\">\n<div><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i.ytimg.com\/vi\/mp4l0ZKEDLw\/hqdefault.jpg\" alt=\"YouTube videos\" width=\"480\" height=\"360\" data-pin-nopin=\"true\"\/><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><noscript><\/p>\n<div class=\"jetpack-video-wrapper\"><iframe title=\"Regis Prograis Blasts Jose Ramirez, Teofimo Lopez Fight &amp; Josh Taylor\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/mp4l0ZKEDLw?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p><\/noscript><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;<strong><em>Mentally, I&#8217;m going to break him<\/em><\/strong>I already know mentally, in a mental battle, I crush him and he can&#8217;t do anything about it.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I know you ask yourself.&#8221; I heard him say, &#8220;That&#8217;s on purpose.&#8221; I saw a red light why do you question yourself? It makes no sense. for camera? What does asking yourself with a camera do for you?<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Then it won&#8217;t do you any good. It will only bring you negatives. Like I said, I definitely feel like I&#8217;m hurting Teofimo. If me and Theo fight, it&#8217;s like this. <strong><em>it would be a massacre<\/em><\/strong>I really feel like I could hurt him.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>&#8220;Absolutely not. I don&#8217;t think he&#8217;s going to fight me.<\/strong><\/em>. No. It&#8217;s bullish. That&#8217;s what people do in boxing these days. Oh, let&#8217;s fight when they know the fight won&#8217;t happen.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;&#8216;Fight him next.&#8217; I saw his dad say he wants to fight me in April. Well, let&#8217;s see if that happens. [if Teofimo will do that]People would say they want to fight, but that would be more bullshit.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Same [purse] Split.  &#8220;Oh, I don&#8217;t agree with that. I don&#8217;t agree with this.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Mike Tyson said, &#8216;These fighters are businessmen. They&#8217;re not fighters. I got in because I&#8217;m a fighter. Of course, you want to be a businessman and you want to make as much money as possible. But I love sports and I love boxing.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Whoever they put before me, that&#8217;s who I fight. So for me, I fight.&#8221; [Jose] Ramirez next, then Teofimo. I don&#8217;t care who it is. i want to fight them <em><strong>I just don&#8217;t see him fighting me<\/strong><\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;These days, people say, &#8216;Oh, we&#8217;re going to fight.&#8217; It&#8217;s easy for a dog to bark behind a cage. You open that fence and he won&#8217;t come out. That&#8217;s why, I have feelings about the situation,&#8221; Prograis said of his belief that Teofimo would not fight him.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>[ad_2]<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/news.google.com\/__i\/rss\/rd\/articles\/CBMiXGh0dHBzOi8vd3d3LmJveGluZ25ld3MyNC5jb20vMjAyMy8wMS9yZWdpcy1wcm9ncmFpcy1vbi10ZW9maW1vLWxvcGV6LW1lbnRhbGx5LWhlcy1ub3QtdGhlcmUv0gEA?oc=5\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ad_1] Along Jim Calfa: Regis Prograis said of Teofimo Lopez:mental breakdown&#8221; At this stage in his career, he believes he has no intention of fighting<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4789,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":[],"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4788","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-boxing-mma-combat-sports","two-columns"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/atswins.ai\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/teofimo4.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/atswins.ai\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4788","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/atswins.ai\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/atswins.ai\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atswins.ai\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atswins.ai\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4788"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/atswins.ai\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4788\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atswins.ai\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4789"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/atswins.ai\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4788"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atswins.ai\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4788"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atswins.ai\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4788"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}