Teofimo Lopez seeks Crawford fight

Teofimo Lopez (19-10) wants to fight the unified world champion in welterweight Terence Crawford (40-0).

First Lopez has to defend his WBO World super-lightweight title when he faces tonight in Las Vegas, Jamaine Ortiz (17-1-1).

“If you look at my track record, everything that I talk about, I walk it as well. We don’t just talk the talk to amp something up, we want to walk the walk,” Lopez told Sky Sports. “And I just had to remind him I’m the biggest cat in the world, absolutely and because of that we face fighters, great champions and I look forward to facing a fighter like him after this fight [against Jamaine Ortiz] however that pursues itself. This is not a publicity stunt here. I think that if you look at my record and everything it shows, it shows that I really choose to face the best.”

Lopez insists that his aim is to fight all the best and he takes inspiration from Roberto Duran.