Teófimo López restored his status as one of boxing’s brightest young stars on Saturday night, bucking the odds in delivering a shocking beatdown of the formerly unbeaten Josh Taylor to become a two-weight champion.
The mercurial 25-year-old Brooklyn native took control of the fight after three rounds, out-throwing and out-landing the WBO and lineal junior welterweight champion from Scotland for lengthy stretches before flatly dominating Taylor in the final stages and nearly finishing him inside the distance. Two of the ringside judges somehow agreed on the dubious score of 115-113, while the third handed down the far more legitimate 117-111. (The Guardian had it 116-112.)
