For a professional boxer, the first dream is the world champion, on Friday evening on May 2, the invincible Arnold Barboz JR (32-0, 11 KO) will finally have a chance when he challenges the world challenge at WBO Super-Lithe World World World Teofimo Lopez (21-1, 13 KO).

The world fight Lopez vs Barboza is part of Fatal Fury Fight Card, which contains a trio of elite duels. The action will take place at the Times Square, Recent York and Air Live in Dazn Pay-Per-view.

Arnold Barboza Jr, from Long Beach in California, made his debut in June 2013, when he defeated Gustav Lopez with a unanimous decision. Barboza would win his next 29 fights.

In the Riyadh Latino Night Card season, which took place in November 2024, Arnold Barboza won high quality when he defeated the former world champion of Super Lithe WBC at WBO/WBC, Jose Ramirez through a unanimous decision.

Three months later, Barboza won a fraction of expenses over high in the position of 140-pound pretender Jacek Catterall. Along with the victory, Barboza won the free short-lived title of WBO Super-Lithe weight.

Now, 33-year-old Arnold Barboza will have the opportunity for one of his dreams to become a reality when he faces the WBO world champion. Barboza is a talented boxer whose set of skills and behavior can give Master defense Deja Vu.

After a brilliant performance in a unanimous victory of the decision on the unified champion of lightweight Vasiliy Lomachenko, Teofimo Lopez began to fight George Cambosos Jr as a favorite 13-1.

In the opening round, George Cambosos shot surprising knocking down, but Lopez turned his favor, dropping Cambosos to 10. After the end of the highly competitive 12-round competition, George Cambosos Jr won through a divided decision.

Almost four years later, Arnold Barboza is able to give Teofimo Lopez the same problem that he fell into in 2021. Like Cambosos, Barboza is a qualified warrior who is confident, hungry and extremely determined.

In addition to all other similarities to the previous man who defeated Lopez, Barboza enters the Teofimo territory as weaker, who participates in his first fight for the title of world champion.

During the first meeting, Arnold Barboza knocked the Teofimo Lopez hat out of his head, and Lopez answered, trying to hit Barbose in the face. The animation between them is incredibly similar to the hostility between Lopez and Cambosos in 2021.

Arnold Barboza JR wrote, stating that he was hungry and is ready to eat. On Friday evening he will have the opportunity to suppress his appetite, entering the ring and making his dream of a world title become a reality.

Did Ryan Garcia regain a sense of rationality?

Or maybe Jose Ramirez, his hunger?

Can Devin Haney do a blow?

And which version of Teofimo Lopez appears?

A really engaging Times Square card should give preliminary answers. But for me, the matter of the greatest consequence is about the guy that no one talks about: Arnold Barboz Jr.

Unlike his opponent, Lopez – who, when he is right, remains as electric talent as in all boxing – Barboza does not have much noise. He is not a social media star, he never even had a public crash. Actually, there is something like novel: only a warrior, although quite good-33 years and 32-0 years aged, absurdly slow for a shot in the title of world champion. The rules have changed since Barboz’s debut in 2013. Apparently, being a really good warrior is not good enough.

Despite this, the question that goes forward – especially in the case of the directors of this emerging TKO boxing league, head of UFC Dana White, President WWE Nick Khan (full disclosure: my former agent) and a guy with bankroll, Saudi financier Turki Alalshikhh – can this: can this change? Being a warrior is a lot of complex concert – you will finally risk your life – without having to be some provocate online. Is there a construction that simply allows good warriors to be good fighters, and from half of them, how inevitably happens, it appears occasionally?

In other words, can you make boxing again a sport?

“When I debuted,” says Barboza from El Monte, California, “” Social media were not even something. It wasn’t until 2020 that it began to change. ” In fact, Barboza was in a state of shot from the world champion in 2019, when the top-class promoter Bob Arum mentioned him as a probable opponent of the then Created Master-WBC Jose Ramirez. According to Ramirez, however, he went to Texas, added the title of Maurice Hooker to his collection, and Barboza went to the WBO route (preferred sanctioning body of the highest rank) in the pursuit of the belt.

Indeed, Barboza won some good fights for this purpose, recently annoying the English Southpaw Jack Cattell in Manchester, England. He is now a “momentary” champion, one of several allegedly prestigious WBO distinctions, which he won along the way, including the titles of “international” organizations and “international”. These secondary belts may seem to be nice trinkets – they certainly provide protection of the fighter from the sketch when he makes his ring – but even so interested in the observer like Arnold Barboza Sr., coach of his son and former manager, does not distinguish them. “For me they are all the same,” he says, referring to the usual sanctioning fee. “Three percent [sanctioning fee] bags. “

Sanctioning bodies – let’s explain that all of them – relate to payment for the game. Do you want to be a claimant? Ante up. Meanwhile, Barboza-the best guy for most of this decade and player No. 1 in WBO at 140 pounds from June 2023, he jumped through all rims that was required-if he passed a pretty good warrior from Chicago named Kenny Sims Jr., who was January 2022, per my sources, Barboza was in the ranking 3 by WBO in Chicago. Sims, like Barboza, was considered a warrior, though known at the time of the nervousness of Elvis Rodriguez. The problem was that Sims was not classified by WBO.

“I needed a guy from the best the best, which I still asked,” says Barboza. “What was that good for me?”

This is the dilemma of a warrior. Are you listening, TKO? Why should the ranking channelists divide 3% of their bags should risk all these years and all this money to fight guys who cannot bring them closer to the title?

This does not mean that Barboza is a duck. In addition to Cattell, his wins cover the former Master Ramirez, whom he defeated by a unanimous decision in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia; Tough and experienced Jose Pedraza; Then and equally complex Danielito Zorrilla; And especially difficult Hitter, also undefeated, and then at the threshold of the title, Alex Saucedo.

“It was my most complex fight,” admits Barboza. Underdog, Barboza, fell in round 7, but he still won a unanimous decision in a brutal fight. He says something about Barboz (and explains why guys are less than enthusiastically fighting him) that he often does not separate their opponents from their consciousness (only 11 KO), but he tests their body and soul.

Certainly, Saucedo, a terrifying blow, will never forget. Bleeding from the brain that suffered that night caused him to retire. “

So I call Saucedo, wondering if he has interest in the fans: Barboza, a warrior who defeated him, or Lopez, who could afford revenge.

“I don’t know,” he says. “I lost my interest in boxing a bit. I don’t see the same anymore.”

Bad blood with barboza? I’m wondering.

“Not at all,” he says. “I am very grateful that I left this business.”

Saucedo has two ecstatic children, 11 and 6, good construction work and a burden on the university course, which one day will allow him to become a project manager at workplaces. “Tell you the truth that I feel so bad that many of these guys are fighting now.” There is no stars, but fighters like him, Barboza or Sims. “Most of them just have to beg and beg, begging and begging.”

And publishing. “It’s about charisma, selling yourself,” he says with joy. “It’s social media,”. “

Admittedly, Saucedo did not have talent. On the other hand, he wasn’t alone.

“A bit amusing,” he says. “I remember they said the same about Crawford.”

Ryan Garcia and Bill Haney got on the scorching stock exchange during today’s Garcia Vs. press conference. Rolando “Rolly” Romero Fatal Fury: City of Wolves on Friday, May 2, on Dazn PPV at Times Square, Up-to-date York.

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Verbal attack

Dad Devina, Bill Haney, graduated when Ryan talked about his fight against Rolly (16-2, 13 KO). Instead of taking a high road, Bill went to the throat, saying Kingry “”Your muscles have disappeared. There is not much Ostarina in it. “The press conference monitor was completely useless.

Ryan did not allow Bill Badmouth Go, and he started with some insults. He didn’t even intend to play nice because Bill got incensed.

If Bill were not such a luppa, we could have a nice discourse between Kingry and Devin, but he took this opportunity. It can be said that Bill came to a well -prepared press conference, saving all kinds of insult to Ryan. It was like 365 days of anger that Bill set off. Bill is still bitter about Devin’s loss.

Roll romero: “I’m going to eliminate Ryan, and he can have fun with Devin. I think Devin deserves his rematch. He has been asking for it for a long time,” said Rolly from today Final press conference For Fatal Fury: City of Wolves an event this Friday at Times Square, Up-to-date York.

Ryan Garcia: “Rolly has never been seen as a real elite warrior. So I am here to do his job, knock him out and go to the sunset. All this. That’s all he has. He has this sparring match and he will exploit it until the day he dies.

“He [Bill Haney] He commented on my figure [at the open workouts yesterday]. He said the same last time, and they also got the last time **. You will beat yourself again **. Better be careful because Jose [Ramirez] It comes challenging. I know Jose also has this left hook. So better be careful.

“We never hear you [Devin Haney] Say because you don’t do s ***. You can’t train your chin. “

Ostarin attack

Devin Haney: “Your muscles have disappeared. You can’t do s ***”.

Ryan: “He has his daddy here.”

Bill Haney: “What the hell happened to Ryan Garcia? This is not the same Ryan Garcia.”

Ryan: “I have many personalities, b ****. You don’t want to see a crazy personality.”

Bill: “It was a fraction of Ryan Garcia, which we saw. Not too much Ostarine remained in him. I will tell you what.”

Ryan: “You better repeat it. You’re trying to build a son.”

Bill: “He enters a tough fight against Romero. It will be a more tough fight than we think because he is a fraction of the person he was on April 20.”