Declan Taylor
BIG IDEAS: Lopez believes in his own talent
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I’M TALKING about a career that will go down as one of the greatest ever,” Teofimo Lopez says without a hint of intended hyperbole. “That’s my goal. That has to be my goal.” It is now 16 years since he was anointed the “Golden Child” by his father, Teofimo Snr, and it is as if the Brooklyn-born lightweight has been living on fast forward ever since.