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Giving prior and post Salido...has anyone seriously tagged Lopez a superstar?! I think its that highlight hype and getting away from basic game that got him ko'd in first place. That and he likes to eat out alot.
wouldn't call Lopez a hype job when he holds wins over Oquendo, Ponce De Leon, Penalosa, Luevano, Concepcion, and R. Marquez, stopping all of them

lets not forget how he blasted out Ponce De Leon effortlessly in the first, he went on to IMO beat Broner, and made Gamboa look relatively flat, Lopez has fallen in love with his power and relies on it too much but this doesn't take away the fact that he has extraordinary boxing ability and is a good counter puncher when he chooses to box, IMO a new corner and fighting away from PR would bring him back to form
He no doubt has sound boxing ability but he sold it out for the hype of the ko punch. He was reading his own press clippings, packing on bad weight and that's why he went life and death with a guy who eats punches like pringles in Mtagwa. He got away from natural talent in some early cases and had it been fine tuned-stuck to early on maybe he doesn't fall vs Salido. What's done is done though. I think he's def got solid skill but he needs some regrounding and let it come natural.