MAN ON A MISSION
IT was a quick but telling Twitter search on world lightweight champion Teofimo Lopez. On June 3, more than two weeks out from his June 19 headlining bout against George Kambosos Jnr, typing in Lopez’ name at noon eastern time came back with the result “50 tweets in the last hour.”
“They’re talking about me?” laughed Lopez. “Oh man, that’s insane. I’m just doing my part and I don’t even know it. That’s that dedication, and I’m just focused. But I’m very appreciative of everyone tuning in and just showing love. Mentioning my name, that alone is something that I’m very thankful about. I guess we’re on the right track.”
None of the tweets were from Lopez. They were just posts from fans and his fellow fighters talking about his place in the boxing world, his career-best win over Vasiliy Lomachenko last October,
