Is Teofimo Lopez the most inconsistent top level boxer around today?

He's not inconsistant - He's just consistantly fighting high level opponents and isn't fed guys with favorable styles. Who fights guys like Sandor Martin and Jamaine Ortiz when He doesn't have to?
I have great respect for the way Teofimo is going about his career - and the fact that fans don't appreciate it is one of the reason there's so much cherry picking in the sport. If He fought some straight-forward brawler with no defence instead, someone made to make him look good - people would be hyping him up right now.
He was engaged in close, high level boxing match and there's mostly just negativity coming his way instead.
I should probably start the Teofimo Lopez fan-club, out of the sense of justice.

 

Yes, he goes from looking world class to looking like a guy with little plan b. However I will say Ortiz was slept on, he’s a very good boxer and I’m unsurprised by how the fight went. Lopez was never going to blast him out.

 

There is Fury, who lost to a novice just recently.

 

I agree with others that 'styles make fights' is a big factor, with Loma and Taylor's innate come forward style playing in to Lopez hand's, and the fact they were both not at their best also factors in.

It's very obvious that Lopez struggles when he has to cut the ring off, to which Martin and Ortiz attest.

That said, I do think he favours being the underdog and has a tendency to fight up or down to his opponent as well.

 

What's funny is Boots also struggled (not as much as Teo) against a slick boxer when he fought Chukhadzhian. I think the Matias fight would have been perfect for Teo, hope Paro pulls out

 

I’ve told you guys before the judges robbed Loma of a draw/W against Lopez and they did the same against Ortiz. Lopez should have lost or at least drew against an aged one armed/injured Lomachenko

1 judge gave Loma 1 round against Lopez lmao, Top Rank have been trying to build Lopez as one of their next stars.

The fix has always been in for Lopez

 

He had an opponent that has a horrible style and you know those fights are never gonna be spectacular.But kid won.To me boxing needs to make a stance runners should never be winning if they keep running ( if your name isn’t Void) and this fight is a good example.Thank you baxxxin!!

 

I don't think he is.

I think he's caught lightening in a bottle twice.

He fought and injured Lomachenko, which fair play he got the W and beat him legitimately, but I suspect a rematch would have gone to Loma.

He then loses to Kambosos, struggles with Martin.

Then he beats Taylor, again fair play it was a legitimate W and he beat the man ranked at the top, but Taylor himself should have lost to Catterall so I'm not really sure how much Taylor actually offers at this stage.

Then he struggles with Ortiz, who Loma also struggled with.

His two biggest victories could so easily have been defeats had he fought the best version of each.

This is Lopez's level, he's just caught lightening twice, I'm sure of it.

 

I'm not sure whether most inconsistent is even easy to define... I mean, how can you be the most inconsistent without being consistently inconsistent?

In all seriousness... He's certainly up there somewhere - I voted no primarily because he's not clearly out on his own as far more inconsistent than others... I'll throw Tyson Fury up there as an example - he's a different kind of inconsistent, but he's another that'll be up there somewhere.

 

No such thing as a fluke in boxing.

 

Still is.

 

I think Julio César Martinez might take the cake for most inconsistent top-level fighter honestly.