Emanuel Navarrete vs Uriel Lopez Fight Preview & Start Time – WBO Junior Featherweight Champion 2020
Emanuel Navarrete (31-1, 27 KO) is a brilliant fighter, as shown in his two fights with Isaac Dogboe
Obviously that was where he won the World Boxing Organisation WBO title and established himself as a world-class talent.
According Navarrete, “Including the belt I have right now at junior featherweight, I want to conquer two more divisions,”
He continued “That’s what I see myself in three-to-five years, becoming a three-division champion.”
Speaking with ESPN, he has laid out some big plans for the coming years.
For champion Navarrete, If there’s one criticism of his rcent run, it’s in the quality of opposition.
However, while some of Navarrete’s more questionable recent opposition at least brought impressive looking records
It’s usually built on wins over lower tier fighters — when he enters the ring in Gimnasio TV Azteca in Mexico City (11 p.m. ET, ESPN)
it will to face Uriel Lopez, a fighter who has won less than half of his career fights.
Lopez (13-13-1) has struggled at every level in his career. He lost his first two pro fights and never really got things trending in a positive direction, never winning more than three in a row.
He also enters the non-title fight with Navarrete on a three-fight losing skid.