The Boxing Tribune

Boxing's Independent Media

  • Home
  • News
  • Videos
  • Best Of
  • Staff
  • Advertise With Us
  • Write for Us

Juan Manuel Lopez Officially Retires: Young Son Urges Him to Quit

September 17, 2014 by Administrator Leave a Comment

48
SHARES
ShareTweet

juan ma lopez beaten

Two-division former world champ, Puerto Rico’s Juan Manuel Lopez was counting on a victory September 11 to win the WBA interim featherweight title and then move on to one more big payday before officially retiring.

Unfortunately for “JuanMa,” he couldn’t get past the hard-punching Argentine, Jesus Cuellar and wound up blitzed in two rounds by his younger, fresher, more aggressive opponent.

After that bout, Lopez’s return to Puerto Rico confirmed to him that boxing was no longer a viable career.

“I went to hospital, everything went well and I finally reached Puerto Rico on Friday,” Lopez told Puerto Rican boxing columnist Carlos Narvaez. “There I met with my children. On Sunday I was talking to ‘Juanmita’ (his youngest) and told him jokingly that I would prepare to fight within six months and he, who is my biggest fan, he said ‘I don’t want my dad to fight anymore.’ That got me, coming from my son who is super boxing fan. That was too big for me and it created a great weight on me. If I had any doubts [about what to do], my son took away those doubts.”

Lopez, who held world titles at both junior featherweight and featherweight, is only 31 years of age with nine years of professional career behind him, but carries around a body battered and aged before its time due to ring wars and, reportedly, a long history of yo-yoing weight between fights.

Administrator
Administrator

Filed Under: Featured, News Tagged With: Juan Manuel Lopez, news

Leave a Reply Cancel reply

Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked *

Best of The Boxing Tribune

Boxing, TV, and You

Boxing, TV, and You

My Life as a Boxer’s Wife: King Carlos Molina’s Queen (Part One)

My Life as a Boxer’s Wife: King Carlos Molina’s Queen (Part One)

Texas: The Best Little Whorehouse in Boxing. Magno’s Monday Rant

Texas: The Best Little Whorehouse in Boxing. Magno’s Monday Rant

Golovkin: Buy The Ticket, Take The Ride; Magno’s Monday Rant

Golovkin: Buy The Ticket, Take The Ride; Magno’s Monday Rant

Mayweather vs. McGregor and the snobbery of “real” boxing fans

Mayweather vs. McGregor and the snobbery of “real” boxing fans

More of The Boxing Tribune's Best

Follow Us

Facebooktwitteryoutube

Alexa Traffic Rank

Sportsbook odds for all Boxing matches

Search

Recent

  • Tyson returns with impressive display as odds available for potential future opponents
  • Crawford maintains unbeaten record following landing short odds in victory over Kell Brook
  • Kell Brook Loses In the Fourth Round To P4P King Terence Crawford
  • Boxing To Look Forward To This Weekend
  • How to Make Money From Your Boxing Passion