Despite becoming a unified weight champion on the screens of ESPN, the American with Honduran roots, Teofimo Lopez, will change the television rights for the defense against the World Cup George Kambosos A the middle of this year.
With $ 6,180.00 million, Thriller Fight Club, the company that took over the return panel of Mike Tyson, will claim to transmit Lopez–Cambodians after doubling the offers of To fool for 2.3 million and MatchRoom box with 3.5 million respectively.
“It’s surprising, I didn’t even know they were going to be at auction. What’s even more incredible is that now I have to go to another platform, but I’m fine,” he said. Lopez at Sports Illustrated about getting a thriller.
The Thriller Fight Club offer took place because, Bob Arum the owner of the promoter Teofim and Lou DiBella as agent for Kambosos, failed to reach an economic agreement for the event to take place on time, also generated tension between the world champion and To fool.
According to the terms sanctioned by FIB for any fight in which a federation title is contested, the defending champion will hold 65/35 of the money received for the fight. Lopez a little less than $ 4 million could go public, which will be distributed with To fool as the company is no longer the main promoter.
On the other hand, the Australian Cambodians will receive $ 2.1 million, an amount that exceeds what Teofimo Lopez received for confrontation Vasyl Lomachenko and this generated the beginning of their differences with To fool.