The words are haunting, dark and terrible, ones a boxer never should utter. Fighters, from those just beginning out fighting for $100 in a four-rounder to the best of the best preparing to compete in a hotly anticipated world title fight, know the risk they take by slipping beneath the ropes.
They walk in, but in some part of their brain, they know there's a chance, however slight, they may not walk out.
"I said it like it is: I want to kill Josh Taylor," Lopez said on the interview posted on YouTube on May 29."Well, what the f*** does that mean? People are like, 'Get back to boxing.' Well, that is boxing. This is what we sign up for." Lopez used a line from Hall of Famer Mike Tyson, saying,"Everyone has a plan until they get punched in the face, shoutout to Mike Tyson." Taylor, who was getting increasingly irritated, said,"Mike Tyson again. You never have quotes of your own."
Lopez is a terrific fighter, but it seems the pressure has put him in a vise and he's not thinking clearly. Top Rank vice president Carl Moretti, reached by Yahoo Sports after the news conference, struggled to know what to say."I don't know," Moretti said."I don't know what to think other than it's odd like we've never seen in a way. Now, is it he's crazy like a fox type of thing? There are other ways you could go with it. But I can't say either way.
"That was more King pushing him in the ring when mentally he wasn't there and physically he wasn't there," Moretti said."But that's not the case here, at least not physically.""People think sacrifice is killing people," Lopez said then."But the sacrifice really is just love, and that starts with you. That's what happened with me. I took a step back and was like, man, I'm really thinking about killing myself. That's how serious it got.
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