Let's be clear here. The reason to excuse Alvarez for fighting an outclassed jr. welterweight is that he tried to line up 3 fights with more challenging fighters first -- not because Lopez got a fluke stoppage against Ortiz after losing most of the rounds of that fight. Lopez gets credit for being tough and not quitting against Ortiz despite clearly losing the fight, but broken jaws are "lucky" injuries -- if Ortiz hadn't had his mouth open when that punch landed, he would have won the fight easily on the cards.
That is why the result against Alvarez was exactly as I expected and why I said this fight was a joke the minute they announced it. Don't put too much on the Ortiz stoppage. Lopez loses to Ortiz in a rematch. He should go all the way back down to 140 -- he will have good success there.
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