{"id":27296,"date":"2020-10-16T07:01:42","date_gmt":"2020-10-16T07:01:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mmaexchange.com\/?p=27296"},"modified":"2020-10-16T07:01:42","modified_gmt":"2020-10-16T07:01:42","slug":"lomachenko-i-want-to-beat-lopez-very-badly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mmaexchange.com\/?p=27296","title":{"rendered":"Lomachenko: I want to beat Lopez very badly"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Lomachenko is looking to end all of Lopez\u2019s trash talk this weekend. <\/p>\n

As Vasiliy Lomachenko nears his Oct. 17 date to unify lightweight titles against Teofimo Lopez, Lomachenko explains to RingTV<\/a> just how badly he wants to shut up the rising star in the sport.<\/p>\n

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\u201cI want to beat him very badly, very, very badly. I want to really beat him badly,\u201d Lomachenko told The Ring in a recent interview. \u201c(Lopez\u2019s father) thinks (Lopez is) a big superstar like Tyson Fury. That\u2019s why they do the trash talk. They act like they\u2019re a big superstar, but they\u2019re not.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Lomachenko would continue by acknowledging that he has a genuine disdain for Lopez and his father, saying that all their trash talk about him has gotten him to a point where he wants to prove a point. <\/p>\n

Top Rank promoter Bob Arum would double down on Lomachenko\u2019s sentiment, saying that no one has really trash talked Lomachenko the way Lopez has and that it\u2019s rubbed Lomachenko the wrong way. That said, Arum says Lomachenko\u2019s training has been as intense as ever. <\/p>\n

For Lopez\u2019s part, he says he\u2019s not intentionally trying to get under his skin, but if it\u2019s had that effect then all the better. But for whatever either fight has to say about their opinion on the other, they\u2019ll both have the opportunity to impose their physical will on one another this weekend on ESPN. <\/p>\n

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Photo by James Chance\/Getty Images Lomachenko is looking to end all of Lopez\u2019s trash talk this weekend. As Vasiliy Lomachenko nears his Oct. 17 date to unify lightweight titles against Teofimo Lopez, Lomachenko explains to RingTV just how badly he wants to shut up the rising star in the sport. \u201cI want to beat him […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":27297,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[10],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mmaexchange.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27296"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mmaexchange.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mmaexchange.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mmaexchange.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mmaexchange.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=27296"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.mmaexchange.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27296\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mmaexchange.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/27297"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mmaexchange.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=27296"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mmaexchange.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=27296"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mmaexchange.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=27296"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}