Kambosos Warns: Teofimo Lopez is Gonna Get a Rude Awakening

George Kambosos Jr. isn’t returning home. Not yet.

In spite of the vulnerability around a date for his test of undisputed lightweight boss Teofimo Lopez Jr. after their June 19 session was canceled because of Lopez testing positive for the Covid, the Australian challenger isn’t in Sydney with his significant other and two children, unwinding after over 90 days away in America while he holds back to be rescheduled.

“Proceeding with my pound,” Kambosos thought of me from Fort Lauderdale when I inquired as to whether he had left camp to reset at home.

It’s anything but astonishing at all, given the power Kambosos brings to each part of his life, yet most outstandingly his boxing vocation. So while most would discover any pardon to dial down their work rate until a substantial date was gotten, the 28-year-old is doing all that he had been doing before the greatest battle of his profession was delayed. Also, he’s doing it in the United States, a long way from being done 9,000 miles from his friends and family.

“It’s ridiculous hard,” Kambosos advised me before the Lopez battle was pulled from its June 19 date. “It’s difficult, and I’ve been doing it on many occasions. Many a significantly more than one camp. However, it has put me to where I am today by those penances and going the hard street that I have. Else, I would have been simply one more Aussie contender who came over, got taken out and would have been back home. In any case, presently I’m battling for the undisputed title and I’m prepared.”

Kambosos has never needed to resemble any other person. He’s constantly followed his own way, and lately, that way has incited him to leave Australia to prepare in the States. In 2018, five years into his expert profession, he made his U.S. debut in Connecticut, taking out Jose Forero in under two minutes, and he clarified that he was resolved to making his difference, at home, yet abroad.

“We as a whole realize America is the Mecca of boxing,” he said. “This is the spot you’re going to make it and it’s entertaining since, supposing that you really glance back at my American presentation, I said it precisely – America’s the spot to make it, and in case you’re going to make it, you’ll make it here. Indeed, we’re here now and we’re one triumph away from turning into a worldwide hotshot and a whiz in the U.S.”

It sounds simple, and on paper, possibly it was, taking into account that in his fifth battle in the wake of ending the 13-6-1 Forero, Kambosos was beating Lee Selby in Wembley Arena to acquire a shot at Lopez’ belts. However, paper and reality seldom coordinate, and there are such countless things that make his excursions abroad troublesome, not the least of which is watching his children grow up through facetime and not face to face.

“It’s hard leaving the children and leaving the family; I’ve been away for around nine weeks now,” he said on May 31. “I put my body through some serious hardship to offer all of chance to win this battle. The children are developing, the children have changed. They’re talking more, they’re changing each day and that is the penance I need to make.”

He stopped, then, at that point proceeded.

“Be that as it may, it’s going to be all awesome.”

In his wallet, it will be, as he is relied upon to make more than 2,000,000 dollars for the Lopez battle, however cash has never been the be-all end-for Kambosos. On the off chance that it was, he might have remained at home in Australia.

“It’s anything but a hard street since everybody takes a gander at oodles of cash now and says, indeed, you’re creating two or three million and I can bear to have a mind blowing instructional course, however my previous battles, I was on limited quantities of cash, so when we worked everything out – preparing costs, living expenses, competing accomplices – you’re essentially earning back the original investment. Also, when you have two children and you have a family, you begin to think, OK, it’s gotta break some place. However, that is the place where the inspiration comes in. That is the place where I realized that on the off chance that I remained on track, kept that exclusive focus, I could see the street and I was showing this second and everything to come. Also, without me facing that challenge commonly in my profession before to approach the U.S., to bamboozle the best, I would not be the place where I am today.”

Kambosos prevailed despite the chances against him, so he resembles a virtuoso at this point. Be that as it may, almost immediately, pundits didn’t anticipate that he should get inside yelling distance of an undisputed title this quick, and they had admirable sentiments. So why just him and few out of every odd other prizefighter down under?

“It’s simple when you become a hotshot in a little lake,” he clarifies. “They may be making a not terrible measure of cash, and it’s a simple street. Individuals would prefer not to escape their usual range of familiarity and that is practically 99.9 percent of individuals in this world. They would prefer not to face a challenge, and they’re stressed over what individuals would say in the event that they fall flat. I’ve never been that way. The one thing I said to myself is, ‘I’ll take the hardest street conceivable, I’ll pursue the hardest battles, I’ll go into the terraces, I need to make my difference, I need to leave my heritage.’ It’s a hard street, yet the diagram is there. Furthermore, relatively few will do it.”

“Brutal” did, and in the wake of crushing Selby by split choice to improve to 19-0 with 10 knockouts and have his chance, he’s one success away from making it all awesome. What’s more, he will do it’s anything but a contender he imagined doing it against.

“Straight after the Selby battle, I was unyielding that I need to battle Lopez and I had Lopez in my mind,” Kambosos said. “I realized we were going to battle. I think I’ve had that vision since two years prior when we initially met that we were going to battle one another. So I’ve had my eye on him. He’s been starting to lead the pack, he’s done it, however I’ve been following quite close, and we’re here at this point. However, on that side, there’s a great deal of interruptions. I realize the interruptions are insane. Right now, he’s battling 20 others however he’s not battling myself. (Chuckles) He’s going to get a reality check, on the grounds that there’s just limited, one hero on the opposite side of that ring, so he’d best be ready.”

Two years prior, Kambosos and Lopez were welcoming with one another, only two rising stars pursuing magnificence in the ring. Today, being agreeable is out the window. Reasonable, since the two will get into a clench hand battle, yet there is an edge to the matchup, and Kambosos wouldn’t fret starting to lead the pack with regards to gamesmanship.

“I don’t believe he’s as put resources into this entire battle,” said Kambosos of Lopez. “He’s needed to take the cash and he doesn’t actually mind since he’s discussing every other person aside from Kambosos. He may say he’s centered around Kambosos, however we realize that is false. Also, I said it to him in his face. We had the public interview and the following day we had a go at one another once more, and I said it to him. He goes, ‘I see something in you.’ I said, ‘You understand what you see? You see yourself in the (Vasiliy) Lomachenko battle, a ravenous dark horse. I’m the dark horse and I’m coming to take what’s yours.’ I accept he feels that this is the sort of battle where he needs to move it.”

That is not a stunner, taking into account that a success over Kambosos opens the entryway for Lopez to confront the man he beat for the belts – Vasiliy Lomachenko – in a rematch, climb to attempt to oust undisputed junior welterweight lord Josh Taylor, or get into the ring with the three warriors he may participate in what is wanted to be a “Four Kings” situation for the present day: Gervonta Davis, Ryan Garcia and Devin Haney.

Those are a ton of charming battles with a ton of cash joined to them. Kambosos needs to destroy the gathering for “The Takeover.”

“I’m sorry to be a killjoy, yet I’m here to wreck the gathering,” he chuckles. “I’m the interloper coming in, the person that nobody welcome to the gathering, yet I’m here in any case. I’m thumping on the entryway, and you better let me in or, more than likely I’m going to kick the entryway in.”

On par with what Lopez is, it’s hard not to be charmed by what Kambosos brings to the table when the two meet, ideally in August or September. He has that fire that Lopez brought to the Lomachenko battle, as though he realized that on that evening, he was not going to be denied.

George Kambosos is here for an explanation, and it seems as though he’s not returning home to Sydney without certain belts in his baggage.

“I recognized a great deal clearly in that public interview,” he said of Lopez. “I’m the sort of fellow that he would not like to manage that is youthful and simply couldn’t care less; I’m a hero and I’m coming to battle. I’m prepared to make efforts to land my hard shots and I’m ready for the manner in which this goes. Kill or be killed. What’s more, he’s never faced someone like this. Every other person has been frightened of him, and he saw firsthand that I don’t care about him; I’m coming to take what’s his.”