If Teofimo is searching for justification to eventually replace his father, he laid plenty of it out publicly. The problem is that a different voice in the corner would not necessarily have possessed the answer against Shakur. The tactical model was already there.
William Zepeda showed how to make Shakur uncomfortable: stay close, throw constantly, attack the body and deny him the space to reset. Senior certainly could have instructed Teofimo to attempt the same approach. Teofimo simply is not built to fight like that.
Throughout his career, Lopez has been a boxer who loads up on single power shots and then moves back out of range. He is not...
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