Lopez demolishes Concepcion
July 11th, 2010
By Christian Ramos: Rushing into Bernabe Concepcion with a straight left in round 2, WBO featherweight champion Juan Manuel López improves his record to 29-0 (26). JuanMa scored the impressive knockout victory, but not without hitting the floor in round 1. Feeling the fight was over, JuanMa dropped his right hand in the middle of an exchange, and the strong Bernabe Concepcion landed a huge left hook, dropping López and placing worries throughout the crowd in San Juan, Puerto Rico.
It was indeed an exciting title defense from López, but one has to wonder if JuanMa can take the risk of opening up as much as he has done against Concepción and Rogers Mtagwa against the future Hall-of-Famer Rafael Marquez. Marquez is a precise and strong boxing technician with years of experience. How much would he have left after the wars with Israel Vazquez? We’ll just have to wait until September 18, when Juan Manuel López and Rafael Marquez face off in Las Vegas. Can we be too greedy and ask for Yuriorkis Gamboa and Celestino Caballero to face off on the undercard? One can dream, can’t one?
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@ Armindo54
Exactly!
Joker C, you are a complete idiot BTW
Lopez is overated he doesnt even deserve Marquez – Caballero earn his stripes to fight Marquez not Lopez – Lopez is a cherry picker fightn Concepcion over Caballero… Hope one day Caballero & Lopez will be made.
Tell GAMPOA TO FIGHT CARLOS IVAN VALAQUEZ WHILE WAITING FOR LOPEZ CARLOS ALREADY DESTROYED HIM ONCE
HE WILL DO IT AGAIN JUST WATCH SORRY
@KOJO YOUR RIGHT!BUT HE’S MOVING ALONG JUST FINE.AND YES GAMBOA DID MAKE SHORT WORK OF ROGER BUT HE WAS COMING FORWARD WHERE IN THE FIGHT WITH LOPEZ HE WAS MORE CONSERVE AND IT WAS THAT LOPEZ GOT TIRE OF HITTING HIM NOT BECAUSE ROGER DID ANYTHING BUT JUST BE ABLE TO TAKE SOME REAL HEAVY SHOTS AND SOME BIG SHOTS HE TOKE SO MUCH THAT WHEN HE FOUGHT GAMBOA HE WAS ALREADY TENDER!!
BUT EITHER WAY YOU PAINTED KOJO LOPEZ SOUTHPAW STAND WITH THAT SHORT RIGHT HOOK AND THAT LONG LEFT GAMBOA IS A FIGHTER WHO LIKES TO FIGHT HE WILL GET INTO EXCHANGES WITH LOPEZ AND GET KNOCK OUT BY THE 5 OR 7TH..BUT A REAL GOOD FIGHT!
For the record its all boxing politics,Lopez is a marque fighter.Gamboa not.the little cubans in miami can support him all they want but trust me lopez sells out the arena.like i said before puertorico is the littlest island on the map with the biggest balls.Mexicans always hate on us.Its political no green cards over here.BABY
Nel.your boy almost got beat by journyman/slugger roger magtwa and gamboa destroyed him.lopez is still green in my eyes and has still a great/future hall of famer.in rafeal marquez to prove to me he is for real.as. For bernabe conception he is only 22 years old has a lot of room/time to improve.showed a lot of heart.an average fighter would have quit.he just needs to work on block with the opposing well throwing his shots.he hhas the natual ability/talent to be a great fighter.
It was an exciting fight while it lasted, but this fight just proved for the 1000th time that a straight puncher is going to beat a wide hooker to the punch every time. When you throw in the fact that Lopez was just the all around better fighter, this outcome came as no surprise. What was surprising is he got caught with that short left hook. His matchup with Marquez should be a great fight, looking forward to it.
while GAMBOA WAITS FOR LOPEZ TELL
HIM TO FIGHT CARLOS IVAN VALAQUEZ
WHO DESTROYED HIM ONCE ALREADY
Lopez – Marquez could be a fight of the year. Can´t wait for that fight. Lopez is the best featherweight in the world. He should take on Yuriokis Gamboa and Chris John next!
it was an exciting fight! the problem with concepcion he’s too reckless, he keep attacking lopez and he’s open for counter punch. rematch would be nice!
Well Concepcion was training with Paquiao… getting counsil from him… but he forget that Lopez was getting counsil from Tito Trinidad!!!
Gamboa the purest talent in boxing is going to walk right through this clown
i told u morons the only way u win is through
steroid k. o
@ Arthur…
elbows and headbutts are part of the game. But I did see the same thing you saw. I’m not sure it would have made a difference though. Concepcion lacked the quickness that his style needs, and Lopez was not the one to go and try to brawl with.
I damn near jumped through the ceiling though, when Lopez went down.
It was definitely an exciting fight.
Marquez will get KO’d too and you already know this!!!!
Lopez is strong but watch the sequence of the “knockout”– he lands a ELBOW ofter the punch that starts to sends Concepcion going backwards.
Lopez and Marquez has WAR written all over it. If Lopez develops a conscience for D he could be better then Tito. I guess the fact that he will stand up to the pain is a testament of his greatness. If he gets in there with a puncher (Gamboa) it could get uugly. Lopez is on the move.
@ t@e ka, the ref did not count in the second knockdown cause concepcion fell hard and ugly and then tried to get up and had no legs so even if he had counted it was an iminent stoppage.
@ Lebron, any fighter who gets hit on the chin can go down. Its how he responds to adversity what makes them great fighters.
Also marquez is a very hittable fighter so he better be ready to take Lopez best shots cause he will land them first.
ROFL, not a bad loss?
The guy got KTFO in less than 2 rounds!
Oh my god! The fight could go either way.. Both guys have serious firepower,. Not a bad loss for conception, Nominated for best round of the year!.
Oh my god! The fight could go either way.. Both guys have serious firepower,. Not a bad loss for conception, Nominated for best round of the year!
Lopez to be the best you have to beat the best yuorkis gamboa.stop running lopez
Lopez vs. Marquez will be the REAL test. And BTW, it was NOT a demolition. Concepcion did some good work in there, and definitely tested Lopez alot. We’ll see what happens next time around. I say Marquez finds Lopez’ number, and wears him out.
LOPEZ THE NEXT BIG THING
congrats juanma!!! you are a great fighter indeed. maybe you would want to face another asian in cris john…great match-up too!!
@Joker C Why are you always hating on the puerto ricans!!!! He won fair and square and he is going to f#*k up Marquez also!!!!
poor showing for both fighters lopez lacks defense concepcion lacks brains and both have suspect chins.
Congrats to Juanma Lopez, the fight against Marquez should be a fine matchup, can’t wait for that.
Congrats to Juanma Lopez, the fight against Marquez should be a fine matchup, can’t wait.
The referee did not count on the 2nd knockdown, he stopped the fight. They are afraid that Lopez might hit the deck again by a lucky punch. Lets see on the Marquez fight if he has chin.. LOL