{"id":3354,"date":"2026-08-29T16:31:42","date_gmt":"2026-08-29T16:31:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valutednews.com\/?p=3354"},"modified":"2026-08-29T16:31:42","modified_gmt":"2026-08-29T16:31:42","slug":"tim-bradley-says-teofimo-lopez-must-take-one-fight-next-its-his-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/valutednews.com\/?p=3354","title":{"rendered":"Tim Bradley says Teofimo Lopez must take one fight next: “It’s his time”"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Timothy Bradley has urged Teofimo Lopez to face one man after dethroning Rolando Romero for the WBA welterweight strap.<\/p>\n

\u2018The Takeover\u2019 became a three-division world champion last weekend, claiming a majority decision victory over \u2018Rolly\u2019<\/a> in his first outing at 147lbs.<\/p>\n

While Romero was always dangerous, and even hurt his man in round five, it was Lopez who ultimately proved the busier and more skilful operator.<\/p>\n

As a result, the 29-year-old is now eager to secure unification matches against either Devin Haney, Liam Paro or the winner of Ryan Garcia vs Conor Benn, which takes place at Las Vegas\u2019 T-Mobile Arena on September 12.<\/p>\n

At the same time, though, Lopez could soon be ordered to face mandatory challenger Jack Catterall, who claimed his WBA \u2018regular\u2019 title with a unanimous decision victory over Shakhram Giyasov in May.<\/p>\n

Before that, WBA president Gilberto Mendoza had ruled that the winner would earn his shot at the full welterweight belt within 180 days of their contest taking place.<\/p>\n

And while, admittedly, a title defence by November 19 seems entirely unrealistic, Bradley<\/a> has nonetheless expressed his desire for Lopez to face leading contender Catterall.<\/p>\n

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\u201cTeo, you gotta face Jack Catterall next. Yeah, you gotta honour that [mandatory duty]. You just got the belt, right? You gotta defend that title against Jack Catterall.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe\u2019s been waiting patiently, and it\u2019s his time and his opportunity.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

While Catterall does, indeed, appear to be in a strong position with the WBA, Lopez\u2019 manager Keith Connolly is actively exploring a route for the American to swerve his mandatory duty<\/a> and chase more lucrative opportunities.<\/p>\n

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Timothy Bradley has urged Teofimo Lopez to face one man after dethroning Rolando Romero for the WBA welterweight strap. \u2018The Takeover\u2019 became a three-division world champion last weekend, claiming a majority decision victory over \u2018Rolly\u2019 in his first outing at 147lbs. While Romero was always dangerous, and even hurt his man in round five, it…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3355,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":0,"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[5445,1606,3610,3609,355,1597],"class_list":["post-3354","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports","tag-bradley","tag-fight","tag-lopez","tag-teofimo","tag-tim","tag-time"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/valutednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3354","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/valutednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/valutednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valutednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valutednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3354"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/valutednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3354\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valutednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3355"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/valutednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3354"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valutednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3354"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valutednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3354"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}