Josesito Lopez is part of the Robert Garcia Boxing Academy team and I wanted to take time this morning to go over his boxing career. Lopez turned pro in 2003 under Thompson Boxing, a local promotional company in the Inland Empire. The Inland Empire is an area composed of cities like Ontario, Rancho Cucamonga, Mira Loma, Fontana all the way out east as far as Riverside. Thompson puts on shows here locally in Corona and Ontario on a consistent basis. Thompson is a promotional company that represents Daniel “Baby Face Assassin” Roman who recently lost his title Murodjon “MJ” Akhmadaliev of Ukbekistan.
To date Lopez has forty-six professional fights. His career started very fast pace averaging 6 fights per year in his first couple years. He suffered a loss in his early days as a pro in a four round bout in Las Vegas against Rodrigo Lopez. But that didn’t stop or deter Lopez he bounced back from that loss with a 14 fight win streak and developed from a four round fighter all the way up to ten round bouts.
When studying his career and record, Lopez didn’t spend a lot of time in the 8 round fights, he quickly graduated to 10 round bouts and had five of them in a row. Next time I see him, I want to ask him what was the plan there, was his promoter pushing him to try to get ranked in order to get a title shot, what was the plan because eventually he went back down to 8 round bouts. Was it that the opportunities stopped coming or was that a way for his promoter to keep him busy, while you waited for offers from bigger promoters against bigger names.
In studying Lopez career, there is one thing that stuck out to me. He earned his the hard way, meaning all his fights were against fighters with positive records. I can only find a handful of opponents on Josesito’s record that had upside down records. An upside down record is where a boxer’s opponents have more losses than wins. For example a fighter with a 5-10, 5 wins and 10 losses. That is not the case with Lopez, the majority of his career he fought tough competitive opponents. Making him a very polished boxer.
In 2006 Lopez lost a split decision to Wes Ferguson in a fight in Las Vegas where I’m assuming he went in as the B-side, possibly was offered a substantial pay day being that the main event was none other than Floyd Mayweather versus Zab Judah. I will definitely ask him about that experience and how he felt about the rise of his career after fighting Jessie Vargas, Victor Ortiz, Canelo Alvarez and Marcos Maidana and then resurrecting his career in 2016 with a move from Henry Ramirez in Riverside over to Robert Garcia and team RGBA. We have definitely seen a different Josesito Lopez in his last few fights than in years prior. Keep an eye out for one of the most reserved humble fighters in the gym as he looks to come back in 2022 in a major way.
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