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title: "Teofimo Lopez takes Romero's WBA welterweight title on a majority decision"
description: "Two judges had it 115-113 and 116-112 for Lopez at the T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas. The third scored it level at 114-114. Lopez lands his third title in a third weight class; Rolando Romero says he was never in trouble."
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author: "Chloe Bennett"
published: 2026-08-23T10:40:31.000Z
updated: 2026-08-23T10:40:31.000Z
canonical: https://newsparlor.com/article/teofimo-lopez-takes-romeros-wba-welterweight-title-on-a-majority-decision
tags: ["boxing", "teofimo-lopez", "rolando-romero", "wba", "las-vegas"]
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# Teofimo Lopez takes Romero's WBA welterweight title on a majority decision

Two judges had it 115-113 and 116-112 for Lopez at the T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas. The third scored it level at 114-114. Lopez lands his third title in a third weight class; Rolando Romero says he was never in trouble.

Teofimo Lopez won the WBA welterweight title from Rolando Romero on a majority decision at the T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas, [ESPN reports](https://www.espn.com/boxing/story/_/id/49698350/lopez-wrests-romero-wba-title-decision-now-3-weight-champ). It makes him a champion in a third weight class.

The scorecards were 115-113 and 116-112 for Lopez, and 114-114 from the third judge. Lopez went into the fight 23-2 with 13 knockouts and leaves it 24-2. Romero came in at 17-3 with 13 knockouts.

## The punch count and the argument

Lopez landed 124 of 530 punches. Romero landed 73 of 352, and two of those came in the final round.

Romero does not accept the verdict. "I got hit with two punches the whole fight that barely grazed me," he said. "I was never in any trouble."

Both things in that sentence can be true and still lose you a fight. Not being hurt is not the same as winning rounds, and a fighter who throws 352 punches against an opponent throwing 530, landing 73 against 124, is losing the visible exchange even if nothing lands hard. Two connections in the twelfth is the detail that tends to decide a close card, because judges watching a round in which almost nothing happens will give it to whoever did more.

A majority decision, with one judge scoring it level, means it was close enough that Romero's complaint is not absurd. It also means nobody scored it for him.

## Lopez on losing

Lopez's own remarks were about defeat rather than victory.

"I need to tell you guys, if you lose and you come back, then you never lost because you're a winner," he said.

That is the sort of line that sounds like a slogan and, from a fighter who has lost twice in a 26-fight career, is closer to a description. Boxing careers are structured around what happens after the first defeat: some fighters never recover the aura, and the ones who come back to win a title in a new division have done the harder thing.

He also referred to their sparring history: "We had to go push the fight if need be. You ain't going to take me out."

## What we did not print

ESPN's report does not specify which three divisions Lopez has now won titles in, and we have not filled that in from memory. It gives no date for the previous two.

We verified this account from a single publication.

## Sources

- [Lopez wrests Romero's title, now 3-weight champ](https://www.espn.com/boxing/story/_/id/49698350/lopez-wrests-romero-wba-title-decision-now-3-weight-champ)