George Kambosos Jr. is ready to get back inside the ring.
LAS VEGAS — George Kambosos Jr. scored the biggest upset of the year when he beat Teofimo Lopez last Saturday to capture the IBF, WBA (super), WBC “Franchise” and WBO lightweight titles. More often than not, the winner of a fight of this magnitude goes into hiding and is not to be heard from until their next bout is announced. Not Kambosos.
He embarked on a media tour in New York, the site of the Lopez win, and also made a stop in Miami to attend an NBA game. Now, the 28-year-old is in Las Vegas for Saturday’s WBC title clash between Devin Haney and JoJo Diaz. Then, Kambosos will hop on a plane the following day for the Gervonta Davis-Isaac Cruz fight before he heads home, where he’ll watch next Saturday’s Vasiliy Lomachenko-Richard Commey contest on TV. Before any of that, Kambosos planned to have a workout following our interview just five days after the grueling war with Lopez that was one of the best fights of 2021.
“Yes, I’m going to train,” Kambosos told DAZN News. “I will train probably around 7:30-8 p.m. somewhere.”
Kambosos (20-0, 10 KOs) isn’t attending these fights to have some fun. He’s on a scouting mission for his first title defense. Kambosos’ preference is to have it in his native Australia. What’s going to determine his selection? Everything, which includes how the winner of each fight performs, who makes the most sense from a financial standpoint, etc. In terms of who he’d like the first foe as he deemed himself “The Emperor” of the lightweight division, Kambosos gave three names with wiggle room for one more in no particular order.
