Does Lopez Still Have It?

I think so, but he needs to learn how to cut off the ring.

Ortiz running a marathon didn't help either.

 

Lopez is not a man with a high boxing IQ. There is a lot he doesn't know how to do. What he does know how to do very well is fight if his opponent is aggressively fighting back. Lopez has good power and excellent quick twitch reactions. He still has what he's always had and he still lacks what he's always lacked.

 

Only with the right opponent.

 

I'm Hella mad at Ortiz. **** like that makes boxing look bad, and it's not like he did much more than make Lopez look bad. He didn't hurt him, batter him, dominate him, or out-slugg him. He barely landed a few more punches than Lopez.

 

I think it does make boxing look bad when fighters don't want to engage.

Casual fans are what keeps boxing from becoming like bowling. Casual fans hate fights like Shakur's last, or this one.

 

And sometimes we get embarrassed as boxing fanaticss and get Hernandez-Mayweather, Lara-Canelo, Ortiz-Lopez.

 

His current team clearly don't understand his limitations given then made the Ortiz fight in the first place, so a change to a new coach could perhaps see some improvements, he is only 26 and I maybe he could learn to cut off the ring and be a better pressure fighter.

But right now he is what he is, great at countering fighters that come to him, but very average when forced to press the action. Canelo was another fighter who had similar stylistic issues as the Trout and Lara fight proved and while it's still not his forte he has gotten better at it, so Lopez with the right team could lessen what is an obvious flaw in his style.

 

Famoso. I know Floyd broke his knuckle, but casuals don't care, they just remember Floyd running and pot shotting.