Former lightweight champion Teofimo Lopez begins his come back against Pedro Campa at junior welterweight on Saturday in Las Vegas.
TEOFIMO LOPEZ (16-1, 12 KOS) VS. PEDRO CAMPA (34-1-1, 23 KOS)
- Date: Saturday, Aug. 13
- Time: 9 p.m. ET / 6 p.m. PT (main event later in show)
- Where: Resorts World Las Vegas, Las Vegas
- TV/Stream: DAZN
- Cost: DAZN is $19.99 per month of $149.99 annually
- Division: Junior welterweight (140 pounds)
- Rounds: 12
- At stake: No major titles
- Pound-for-pound ranking: None
- Odds: Lopez 16½-1 favorite (average of multiple outlets)
- Also on the card: Xander Zayas vs. Elias Espadas, junior middleweights
- Prediction: Lopez KO 8
- Background: Lopez returns to the ring for the first time since he was knocked down in the first round and lost a split decision to Australian George Kambosos Jr. last December in New York, which cost the Brooklyn fighter his undisputed 135-pound championship and much luster from his reputation as a rising star. He had won the titles by upsetting pound-for-pound king Vasiliy Lomachenko in his previous fight. He will have been out of the ring for 8½ months when he faces Campa in his first fight as a junior welterweight. The 30-year-old Mexican is a solid all-around fighter but hasn’t faced an opponent near Lopez’s class. He rebounded from a knockout loss to journeyman Carlos Jimenez in 2017 by going 7-0-1 in his next eight fights. That includes a third-round stoppage of previously unbeaten Carlos Sanchez Valadez in March, his most recent bout. Campa has fought only once in the United States, back in 2015.
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