LAS VEGAS – The Lopez family sat behind the ring, although none of them sat much. They yelled and screamed and hollered from the opening bell to the very last second of the quarantined bout here Saturday, providing a striking contrast to the strange night of top-level boxing inside the Top Rank bubble. Here, everything seemed quieter, the celebrations muted, the loudest sounds coming from the announcers. At least, that is, until the main event.
That’s when the family of Teofimo Lopez ended the library ambiance with a cacophony of funny and X-rated barbs. And that’s when Lopez himself burst the respective bubbles of oddsmakers, pound-for-pound list makers and the many who believed Vasiliy Lomachenko to be the best fighter in the world.