LAS VEGAS ? As good as Juan Manuel Lopez is, there has always been something missing. He?s 29-0 with 26 knockouts, has won world titles in two weight classes and is ninth in the Yahoo! Sports Top 10 poll ranking the world?s finest boxers.
He wears a dazzling gem-encrusted ring that was given to him by the World Boxing Organization and is emblematic of five successful world championship defenses.
But promoter Bob Arum still uses words like ?building? and ?developing? when speaking of the 2004 Puerto Rican Olympian, and it?s true that Lopez could probably walk anonymously down most streets in Las Vegas, the Fight Capital of the World.
