Teofimo Lopez in pain with Pneumomediastinum while fighting George Kambosos Jr Boxing News 24
Via Sean Jones: Teofimo Lopez battled last weekend with a potentially life-threatening condition called pleural effusion to defend the title against George Kambosos Jr. at Madison Square Garden in New York.
According to ESPN’s Mark Kriegel, Teofimo was diagnosed with pleural effusion at Bellevue Hospital in New York.
Teofimo started having problems at the weigh-in last Friday, feeling short of breath.
Teofimo used to stand out looking sick while working out, but at the time, some boxing fans thought his looks were the result of losing weight to hit his 135 lb limit.
According to ESPN, Teofimo did not know he was suffering from pleural effusion, a condition that makes it difficult for a person to breathe.
Air escapes between the ribcage and lungs, resulting in a collapsed lung due to the pressure. This condition may have killed Teofimo, who thought he was having a relapse of his lifelong asthma.
The previously undefeated Teofimo (16-1, 12 KOs) looked exhausted from the first round, breathing deeply like a shallow fish and working hard against a boxer with a weaker fitness level that he thought he should have. stampede a round in 28 years. -Kambosos gold (20-0, 10 KO).
According to ESPN, in the state that Teofimo is in, he shouldn’t be fighting, as he is putting his life in danger against lesser-known Kambosos. Teofimo was supposed to be in the hospital being treated for this life-threatening problem with a condition like this.
The unannounced Kambosos, who had struggled against B-rank opposition throughout his career, took advantage of Teofimo by training him with high punches, moves, and constant squeezes.
Teofimo might be dead
With Teofimo too tired to throw many small shots in each round, Kambosos took advantage of his fatigue by hitting him with multiple shots that left him tearing his eyes out and bleeding from his nose.
The shots from Kambosos didn’t look powerful, but he took off so many shots that they damaged the exhausted-looking Teofimo.
“Certainly he could have died,“Dr. Linda Dahl told ESPN about Teofimo. “How he breathes, I can’t even explain to you. It was like someone tying a set of 300-pound weights around his chest… like his neck and chest were in a veil. That’s how he fought.”
So here it is. Teofimo is so physically ill that he can’t defend his four titles the way he needs to for him to do what should have been a mediocre defense against a non-boxer, who did little to win a title.
This revelation about Teofimo’s state of health made Kambosos win over him, as he had many casual boxing fans believe that he beat Teo at his best and that he would be the threat to elite lightweights like Gervonta ‘Tank’ Davis, Vasily Lomachenko and Devin Haney.
It was clear from the second round that Teofimo looked exhausted, barely delivering punches, and couldn’t stay active without backing down from fatigue. Teofimo looks like a FISH coming out of the water, taking a full breath of air and turning red
The doctor said that Teofimo is lucky he is not dead!
“He’s lucky he’s not dead,” Peter Constantino, executive director of the New York Head and Neck Institute. “I mean, really lucky.”
Understandably, Teofimo said he didn’t want to pull out of the fight due to the pressure he was under on him.
Teofimo was able to fight hard for 12 rounds with his inability to breathe properly showing you what a fighter he is.
“I don’t know how he went through 12 rounds without breathing,‘ said Dahl.
Once his health is cleared, Teofimo will move up to 140 to move in the light weight division in 2022. While it would be great to see Teofimo face the Kambosos in a rematch, it will. is not possible unless the Australian is willing to go 140 to meet him in that weight class.
