The American Teófimo López won this Sunday by split decision To Spanish sandor martin at Madison Square Garden in New York (United States) in a direct elimination of the World Boxing Council (WBC) for the super lightweight title.
Not only was the stage not great for the Spaniard, but he danced with the American at Madison. Martín took out his best boxingturned off a Teofimo without answers and only a controversial arbitration decision left the Spaniard without victory.
Sandor stopped the effervescence of his rival, connected more effectively and uncovered the weaknesses of a Teófimo López who raised his hand to the sky in New York against the whistles from his own audience. The hardest blow that the Spaniard received was that of the cardboard.
Martín knew how to fight. He made Teofimo feel uncomfortable stinging, looking for the counterattack and avoiding the power of the American. Demonstrating great mobility and good use of distance, he wetted López’s gunpowder. He didn’t want to let him combine hands and, placing his right hand with speed, he was adding points and making it difficult for his opponent’s work.
López had to risk to get away, he knew it, he had to expose himself and he paid for it in the second round. Sandor landed a forceful right hook that dropped the American and forced the referee’s count. Teofimo kept insisting, he placed few hands but with power, although he still couldn’t find the formula to take out all the artillery. He drowned in the Spanish proposal.
And fortuitous headbutt caused a nosebleed to Sandor, which was contained without complications and did not cut the rhythm. That was the biggest difficulty the Spaniard faced. In the seventh round, López fell again in an action similar to that of the second. Teofimo recovered quickly and the referee interpreted it as a slip, a real stone facing the cards for Sandor.
Nerves flourished in the corner of ‘The Takeover’. It’s not that he wasn’t finding the best boxing in him, it’s that he wasn’t letting her bring it up. He couldn’t put the Spaniard in trouble. He displayed great lateral displacements and forced Teófimo to chase shadows. López drew more hands but not with greater precision than the Spaniard.
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The American wanted to press the accelerator, even he had the feeling that the fight was slipping away from him, his father insisted from the corner and he stressed this before the last episode. Despite precipitating his actions, he continued without finding a Sandor Martín who found his greatest rival on the cards.
95-94, 96-93 and 97-92 ruled the judges to give the victory by split decision to Téofimo López against the awe and whistles from Madison Square Garden. “It has been a very tough fight,” said López. Sandor Martín, visibly angry and after verbally confronting the American, did not want to comment.